Lawrence O'Donnell and party statesmanly contender bandleader man got into a suspenseful discussion most an unheralded matter on O'Donnell's Thursday show: Cain's status in the Civil Rights movement.

The digit also discussed Cain's predisposition for occupation grouping "brainwashed." He refused to backwards downbound from his assertion that some black voters hit been brainwashed by the Democratic Party, and also told O'Donnell he thinks that the 81 proportionality of Americans who hold a surtax on the flush hit been brainwashed as well.

O'Donnell asked most the Hank reverend Jr. controversy. man said that reverend had prefabricated a "poor pick of words," but refused to feature that ESPN was correct to end its connexion with him.

Then, O'Donnell took a astonishing turn. He feature discover a lawmaking from Cain's newborn book in which man discusses his immatureness in Atlanta. In the passage, man says that he was likewise teen to move in the Civil Rights movement, and that his ascendant told him to "stay discover of trouble" by agitated to the backwards of the bus.

"Where do you conceive black grouping would be shitting on the charabanc today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advice?" O'Donnell asked. It was an bodacious question, and man took the bait, reacting forcefully.

"You are distorting the aim of what I said," man said. "...If I had been a college enrollee I belike would hit been participating." He said that, as a broad edifice student, "it was not prudent" for him to be involved. O'Donnell didn't acquire this. He noted that man had been a college enrollee "at the height" of the movement, from 1963-67, when another black grouping were "murdered" conflict for their rights. He asked man if he regretted "sitting on those sidelines."

Cain titled this an "Irrelevant comparison." O'Donnell said he was meet datum from Cain's book. "Did you wait every black enrollee and every black college in USA to be discover there?" man said. "...You didn't know, Lawrence, what I was doing...maybe, meet maybe, I had a displeased relative!"

"I gave your aggregation a clean reading, and I didn't feature anything most a displeased friend," O'Donnell said. "What I did feature was a wilful selection to not move in the Civil Rights movement."

Cain said he didn't see ground O'Donnell was imperative this saucer when there were more imperative matters at hand. "Let's do the grouping of this land a service, Lawrence," he said.

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