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Barack Obama's conversation on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have symbolized the culmination of Martin Luther Ruler, Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid demonstrates, despite the improvement we've made, we remain a land divided - as seen just lately in headline-making tragedies including the killing of Trayvon Martin and the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore. With Chief executive Obama's election, People in the usa expected an wide open dialogue about race but instead found out the irony of any African American leader who looked hamstrung when handling racial matters, leaving a lot of his followers disillusioned and his political opponents sharpening their cutlery. To comprehend why that is so, Reid examines the complicated marriage between Barack Obama and Costs and Hillary Clinton and exactly how their varied methods to the race issue parallel the obstacles facing the Democratic get together itself: the disparate parts of its bottom part and the whirl of shifting allegiances among its power players - and exactly how this patterns the party and its own hopes of retaining the White House. Fracture traces the party's make-up and persona regarding race from the civil privileges times to the Obama presidency. Filled with key political players such as Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, and Al Sharpton, it offers historical framework while handling questions arising even as we head into the next national election: Will Hillary Clinton's marketing campaign symbolize an embrace of Obama's legacy or a repudiation of it? How is Hillary Clinton's stand on race both very much like and different from Obama's or from her husband's? Just how do minorities view Mrs. Clinton, and can they line up in huge numbers to aid her - and exactly what will happen if indeed they don't? Veteran reporter Joy-Ann Reid investigates these questions and much more, offering breaking news, fresh insight, and experienced insider research mixed with fascinating behind-the-scenes drama to light up three of the most crucial figures in modern political history and how race can affect the key 2016 election and the continuing future of America itself.
