My fellow Americans, we have endured a week such as no nation should live through.

A time of violence and tragedy.

For a few minutes tonight, I want to talk about that tragedy.

And I want to talk about the deeper questions that it raises for us all.

The voice you just heard was Lyndon Baines Johnson in what the White House called an

address to the nation regarding civil disorder on July 27, 1967.

I'm still on a Marry Cox.

This is still with friends like these, converts edition, and we are still covering converts.

We're just going to talk about changing a lot of minds at once through protest and disruption.

Our guests will talk about how the images of police attacking non-violent protesters

helped elevate civil rights and the eyes of voters to the most important issue facing

the nation and drove up the Democratic vote in 1964 by as much as two and a half points.

And how later images of violence between protesters and law enforcement wound up pushing

law and order ahead of civil rights in the eyes of the nation.

And wound up increasing the Republican vote in 1968 by as much as eight points.

Omar Waso is an assistant professor of political science at Princeton University.

He also happens to be an old friend of mine from the dot com boom.

I met him when he was running black planet, a pioneering social networking site that he

also co-founded.

Omar, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well I am very excited to talk to you because this is some amazing timing your article coming

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