you know, the thousands of people from all corners of america who marched after george floyd was killed, what can they do now? what is the role of the collective in restorative justice? well, that s a great point. i think what they have to do is to do what northam did. if the the eyes can t see what the brain doesn t know, then know some more stuff. read jonathan capehart, read nicole hannah jones, read bell hooks, read people who can inform you, james baldwin, the fire next time, i would recommend every american read that book to grapple with the powerful articulation of the politics of grief that have besieged black people, the traumas we have endured, but the overcoming power of love to remake american society. without black forgiveness, america wouldn t be what it is today. that s for damn sure. quickly, professor dyson, what
underserved. anthony: you re going to have your work cut out for you for the next four years. ali: we are but you know what? we have to organize. there is no other way to do it. america wouldn t be as great as it is right now if people didn t organize. ali: it s both unique and disturbing that you re also from queens, because the values that you have been running on are not the queens values we know and i guarantee you one thing we all of us, will make sure you don t forget where you came from. anthony: how much traction are you getting within the community? is there a hunger for that, or is it taking some convincing? ali: definitely a lot of people, that because it s such a new community they re just trying to make it in america. they re trying to maximize whatever they have, even space. we have a cell phone store, a phone card store, we have a little bit of space let s put a restaurant here and maximize everything we can, but then there are other people that get it, that
one-star general at ft. leavenworth, kansas. he noted there was nothing honoring the buffalo soldiers, so that s one thing he pushed for, and that was in the, you know, the early 1980s, and by 1992 there was a monument to the buffalo soldiers. and he went there and spoke himself. in fact, my godfather, my uncle, a former buffalo soldier, escorted him there. again, i got to meet him at that time also. but he was a trail blazer. let s not forget that there would have been america wouldn t have known colin powell if it hadn t been for back in i think the carter administration, secretary of the army clifford alexander, the first african-american secretary of the army. when the general officers list came out in the late 1970s, he made a comment and said, wait a minute, is there no one of color who could be a general officer? and then on the next list, there were a couple, including then
is our insurance policy america wouldn t be attacked again. he just gave the argument for why we should stay. that s stunning. bill: a few things here. general milley said a few weeks ago the target was to get down to 600 to 700 troops in country prior to tomorrow august 31. i don t know what you can do in afghanistan with 600 or 700 forces. it is the embassy or bagram or local airport. can t be all three. were those the guidelines that people on the ground were given? yeah, well, there is a lot of blame game going on here as you correctly identified. it is sad to see and all driven by the fact that they have had significant failure here. and it is undeniable and the american people are very much aware of it. but what happened clearly, we ve seen the biden administration blame the intelligence services for not
globalist freak out when trump attended his first big nato summit? i do. they were enraged that he refused to play by the old establishment games of papering over all the differences with niceties. well, instead he used the occasion to put our friends on notice that america wouldn t be the sap anymore who picked up the check forever. it was time that member nations started living up to their obligations. nato members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. laura: of course in the media s eyes, an american president should never ask our allies to pay up. it s so gauche and threatening. it was an epic foreign policy fail, an easy layup missed by the united states. it seems like the phrase leader of the free world might be obsolete.