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wb and booker t. and then more recently there are people writing about the club women, the color club women bound and social organizations. even after i recovered the reparations that bend and even after i documented that this woman started a movement with 300,000 women asking for reparations in 1890 for all those legs and she was an ex-slave herself, even after that was documented and everybody gave praise and gave their prizes and all that, when they went about the reconstruction of the great migration they write about w.e.b. and booker t.. and then they migrated to the north. and so it's really hard. part of it is that she was a washerwoman and these ex-slaves were poor people. i think eslanda robeson has a better chance of being included in the narrative then making a full picture of rosa parks. you did a wonderful book, both of you good but since robeson was, you know she was -- rosa parks was a working-class woman, down-home woman. didn't go to college and all that stuff but robeson wrote things

i always go back to this incredible quote by booker t. washington in 1911, that talked about this industry of racial divisiveness. >> what about that? historically the high profile cases, we hear about some cases not the georgia case that colonel west mentioned. why is that? >> well, i think there is an increased level of corrosiveness. i thought the whole zimmerman/martin trial led to a higher level of disrupt between people in this country. >> why? >> especially -- >> why are we seeing the same cases so differently? >> well, i saw a pole today, it's not only division between black and white, sean, but it said that overwhelmingly among whites, there's division, that if you look at white republicans, it was like 70% of white republicans sided with the verdict and with zimmerman. and then among white democrats, only 30% of white democrats thought it was a just verdict. you look at that, i would say also, it's interesting to me, you were asking colonel westerlier about washington. it seems to me if you look at the republican party in washin

that was said in 1911 by booker t. washington. and so when i think about what attorney general eric holder said today the stand your ground law was not a part of the zimmerman case. as a matter of fact, i think they are looking at an opportunity in not letting a good crisis go to waste, each and every individual has a right to defend themselves and i think that's what stand your ground law is about. i live in florida and i understand that law very well. i don't think that you can look at stand your ground law and see how it will apply to this case and i don't think that there is anything that will show that you have a problem in florida or some 22 other states that have laws similar to that. >> bill: all right. now, holder is an interesting guy because he is a political activist disguised as the attorney general of the united states. and there is no question about that. eric holder enforces the laws that he likes, and he goes after the laws that he doesn't like. when you have a situation like that, where i would say most african-a

that was said in 1911 by booker t. washington. and so when i think about what attorney general eric holder said today the stand your ground law was not a part of the zimmerman case. as a matter of fact, i think they are looking at an opportunity in not letting a good crisis go to waste, each and every individual has a right to defend themselves and i your ground law is about. i live in florida and i understand that law very well. i don't think that you can look at stand your ground law and see how it will apply to this case and i don't think that there is anything that will show that you have a problem in florida or some 22 other states that have laws similar to that. >> bill: all right. now, holder is an interesting guy because he is a political activist disguised as the attorney general of the united states. and there is no question about that. eric holder enforces the laws that he likes, and he goes after the laws that he doesn't like. when you have a situation like that, where i would say most african-americans agree with hold