Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 13th of regular meeting of the joint City School District and city college select committee. I am supervisor haney. Madam clerk, will you please call. Do you have announcements . Please silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards should be snu submitted to the clerk. Please call the roll. roll call . Mr. Chair you have a quorum. Thank you. Will you please call the first item. Yes, i seem one. The hearing on the implementation of the affor affe homes for families now and the partnership between the city and county with the San Francisco with the unified School District to finance projects streamlined under the initiative. Before i call up our speakers and give an opportunity for other folks who may provide introductory comments. I want to say this is exactly why this committee exists, to be able to talk about an issue that really cannot happen without all of us in communication and on the same page, and i know that
Jason riley author columnist at the wall street journal and among your books, please stop helpings us, i want to begin where your book concludes you said the following quote to liberalism has succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Yes, i believe that is a big part ofev political strategy actually. And they have been added for some time. On fortunately theyve had a lot of success in taking blacks is primarily victims. They are defined by their victimization first and foremost. And then the followup is of course that we have a Government Program, or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood. So i think its a political strategy. Your bookl writes about a number of essays and books on Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Was it a failure or success . I think if you look at the actual track record of the programs, if you look at the goals that the objectives that were stated at the time, youd s,ve to say its largely a failu
Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 13th of regular meeting of the joint City School District and city college select committee. I am supervisor haney. Madam clerk, will you please call. Do you have announcements . Please silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards should be snu submitted to the clerk. Please call the roll. roll call . Mr. Chair you have a quorum. Thank you. Will you please call the first item. Yes, i seem one. The hearing on the implementation of the affor affe homes for families now and the partnership between the city and county with the San Francisco with the unified School District to finance projects streamlined under the initiative. Before i call up our speakers and give an opportunity for other folks who may provide introductory comments. I want to say this is exactly why this committee exists, to be able to talk about an issue that really cannot happen without all of us in communication and on the same page, and i know that
Host jason riley, author, columnist, contributed to the wall street journal, Fox News Contributor and among your books, please stop helping us how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed. I want to begin where your book concludes, quote, liberalism has succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Guest i believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually and they have been at it for some time. Unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting blacks is primarily victims, defined by their victimization first and foremost and the followup that we have a Government Program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood so it is a political strategy. Guest there have been a number of books about lending johnsons Great Society. Was a failure or success . Guest if you look at the track record of the program, the goals, the objective stated at the time you would have to say it was largely a failure particularly with
Good evening. Im here to introduce our guest. Clive is a former Systems Engineer with ibm. Graduated from university here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and a trained psychotherapist. Also the awardwinning author of small works of fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of the Richard Wright awarded africanamerican literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chirop