and working with bayard rustin. bayard knew that jackie was a civil rights leader. we forgot this part of jackie robinson because we froze him, i think, back in 1947. we forget that martin luther king jr. had a nightmare after he gave his i had a dream speech. we have frozen him. shortly after that, four little girls were murdered in birmingham. remember? doctor king began to speak about his nightmare. we freeze him in 1963 and we freeze bayard rustin. we forget that in 1966 he is going for a radical redistribution of wealth and power in the united states. what we do with heroes is freeze them in the time that is least threatening to us. we forget. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> we forgive those radical moments when they are coming into their own as civil rights leaders. and i think in jackie's case, we should not only look at his time in the baseball diamond, he is a great civil rights leader on the baseball diamond, but after he leaves the baseball diamond, we forget about what he does. >> my small criticism of mr. robinson was that he criticized w

they pommeled bayard and civil rights leaders. they standby bayard's side. he says at this point, you need to judge me on my whole character, on my whole life. bayard does not talk openly about his gay sexuality in the media. he durchlt do that. -- he doesn't do that. he's of the school that says at this point one's sexuality is a private matter. in fact he, he writes this in a letter in 1985 do a man who is putting together -- of writing by african-american gays. bayard says he considers sexual orientation to be a private matter. that wasn't exactly true by the mid 1980s he stand up for gay rights and speaks on behalf of gay rights here in new york city. but he does so in part because walter, his long time companion had been encouraging him to do so. he hadn't done so up to that point. with walter's newing he begins to speak out on behalf of gay rights. since then, the gay rights movement has seen bayard as one of the early heros. i want to emphasis that it took a lot of courage to stand up as an openly gay man and move in the inner circles of civil rights

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they say the agent was shot in the head, the budget fired through a window from the bayard of the house. at this point, there's no word on a motive. >>> a letter is being sent to some oakland parents today. that's after a 7-year-old boy found a used syringe at a school playground. call dean wong is live with a story you'll only see on 2. >> reporter: that letter is connected to go out today. this is highland chirps center, and in the last hour we have been watching crews here cleaning up. the letter is supposed to let people know about the syringe found in the dirt in this yard. you can see piles of where they've been raking this morning. and in the meantime the boy who found this syringe started medications and the district is apologizing for its response to what happened. >> you got to open that back up today? >> all that information you want is -- >> reporter: this is new video we shot just last hour as crews arrived. they didn't want to talk, referred everything to mr. flinted, the spokesperson for the school district. he blamed a communication breakdown. in all happened last wednes