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a minute. urging people to kind of move up front. take a seat. [inaudible conversations] okay, and just to remind you, we ve looked at different contexts for our look at racial questions, and we ve gone through the home and family, politics, and them the last session, the institutions, # and now basically a public sphere, the media and popular culture, and i turn it back over to richard lui. thank you, charlie. what a great panel today to talk about this. donna byrd here, thank you for being here today. will griffin, thank you, present ceo of hip hop on demand as well as spike lee, founder of 40 acres and film works that everybody knows. what a great panel to talk about the subject today. as you know, the entire subject we look today in the state of race in america. i want to start by asking you what the state of race in media is. if you could give me your thoughts, and spike, by the way, i forgot to mention, he has to leave at 4 for a plane to catch heading up to new york,
who because they don t have a place in this so-called established media they have to go and created online and i am fine with that because i think in a few years that will be the place to go because when i look at egypt i think one of the main drivers of the revolution is what has been happening in the region is the young people who ve gone and created spaces for themselves where they ve not existed before and they ve used as platforms to take on these regimes, so that is what it takes here and if i have to look at the guest of which media as the regime in this country then so be it because it s not happening, we are not creating that space. they might take a muslim reporter war two but still the same story that at the end of the day makes me think of leased line there but i ve got another five or ten years before they recognize that dhaka, too and a muslim in this country. we have had these large buckets. you did a great job, mona, describing the muslim community and they