My larger point in all of this is that defeating racism requires us to win over as many people as possible, and a big part of that is simply winning them over to a progressive political perspective, and away from a conservative one.
"America is a racist country," Mychal Denzel Smith wrote earlier this month. He called on whites to acknowledge racism's pervasiveness and eliminate it.
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype journalists Rahiel Tesfamariam and Mychal Denzel Smith in a discussion of youth violence and poverty in the United States and the lack attention given to these issues in the 2012 Presidential Election.