This museum and he is serious about dr. King. When tavis comes to memphis even if he doesnt come in to talk to the staff he will often kneel down and pray because dr. King meant so much to his life and continues to mean so much to his life. For those of you who have never met him you have got to know hes a downtoearth guy. He is just like your brother. He is a person you always want to talk to. My first introduction to tavis, tavis gave some of the most thoughtful commentary that i have ever heard. Pappas is a brilliant young man and he has been brilliant for a long time. I know in some ways and among some audiences he has been a little controversial but when what i will say to you about tavis is tavis always speaks to himself. Whether you agree with that or not or whether you like it or not he does speak truth to power. That is what i love about him. He is a longtime friend. He is for me personally much like a brother. I love him like one. Ive met his mother who he has brought to the
And dr. King. When teefourteen comes to memphis you often go to pray at the site because dr. King and so much to his life and continues to mean so much. If you have never met him you have got to know he is down to earth. Just like your brother the person you always want to talk to. And teefourteen gave some of the most thoughtful commentary i have never heard. He is the brilliant man and has been for a long time. I know in some ways he has said whether controversial but he always speaks truth to power. But that is what i love about him. For me personally much like a brother i mitt his mother who he brought to the museum if you are a ben bradlee in the room i have heard of since i first heard him and did not know him so i want to introduce you to some of them present to others a man who is an icon in his own time and is not that old. Icons are usually older he already is and it is a privilege and an honor to welcome him back to the National Civil Rights Museum, my friend, mr. Cornel wes
By getting engaged they will understand more of the issues and who to trust and the policy options ahead of us. Host and on the other side of it for the leaders that are working to repair or build that trust any advice for them on how to do that . Guest i. E. Do not have a Silver Bullet about that, but we do know that today you need to be transparency becomes important and honesty becomes even more important. It was always important but now there are many reasons why those in power are scrutinized at the level and of those are those are the leaders that believe they can get away. Even though we have seen instances where theyve gained a lot of power. Host we are getting near the end but your book is called the end of power and you described this trajectory from power and concentrated on a few big institutions at the end of power at the dissolution type of anarchy. Where on the spectrum do you think that we are right now ask . Guest we are in a place where trust isnt fair and the governm
Over scarce resources between different racial groups and can include such aspects how different racial groups attempt to define you know what race is and how it works and how they ended up, how through that definition end up creating a dynamic where some groups have a lot of resources and some groups have fewer resources. If you, black politics, think about racial politics as competition between different racial groups black politics becomes for me, the competition within black communities about what the black agenda should be about, about what, how we even define what blackness is. And then urban politics is about the competition over scarce resources within a metropolitan environment. Between different metropolitan environments. Host is there a black agenda . Guest guest some people like this think there is. Some people like to think there should be. Instead after black agenda there are black agendas, different, sections of black communities, have different desires and then those, s
Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the