Hi im Steve Clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvar
York america in august of 1619. Good evening. [ applause ] im k. C. Matthews, chief of staff here at the somebuchombur center poo center. Im obviously not kevin young. Listed in your program. Kevin has been looking forward to this event for ytwo years an upset hes not able to join us tonight. Kevin is not feeling well and not able to be here. He hopes to join us tomorrow and saturday for the remainder of the program and is watching along online. It is my honor tonight to welcome all of you who are here in the audience and welcome folks who are watching online as well. This is the Second Annual conference presented by our Lapidus Center for the study of transatlantic slavery. This morning Public Library and vch shomburg city event the historical analysis of transatlantic slavery. Youll hear more about and from mr. Lapidus shortly. This is a banner week for the Schomburg Center. Just a few things i want to mention to you. We and our director are part of a documentary, t rary premiered we
Strip along the bottom you can see here. People responded to these hateful words inspiringly. Reporter in the display of positive defiance, synagogue leaders invited people to write messages a personal support on the banner covering the graffiti on one hand it is very hurtful, but on the other hand i am proud of the way that the congregation is reacting. Reporter the Police Received a call about the anti somatic graffiti displayed on the side of the temple. I am upset and disturbed but not terribly did not terribly surprised. Reporter the crime happened on rosh hashanah, the jewish new year and many found the sense of renewed hope in the way that the community has reacted. The most inspiring thing is to see these kids writing on the wall and having them take part in turning something ugly into something beautiful. Reporter the rabbi at the temple says that this particular congregation has been in oakland for over 140 years, and the temple has been here for over a century. While they ar
[inaudible conversations] hey, once again, good afternoon. And, again, want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference. Again, thank you so much for being a part of this great, great conference. Again, lets give the organizers a big hand for organizing, putting this together. [applause] they always do such a great job, and this panel part of the great job that theyre doing today. Race, power and politics is the title of our panel. Our moderator for the day is wallace ford. His panelists will be Marc Lamont Hill and obery hend distribution, so hendricks, so lets welcome our moderator for the day, wallace ford. [applause] thank you and good afternoon. Good afternoon, hello. Good afternoon. All right, okay. We would like to, first of all, just thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers conference here at medgar evers college. My name is wallace ford, i am the chairman of the Public Administration department here at the school of business, and im the author of the p
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