Lasting change and benefits for minorities in this country and to try to close inequality gaps in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are going to discuss that. Render, hee mich
Heres a look at the latest numbers. As of this morning our state has recorded 1,264,539 confirmed cases of the virus and almost 20,000 people have died. After approval meantime operation warp speed hoping to have that Pfizer Vaccine out the door by december 15th with doses allocated to states by population. For example, some 300,000 to california, 170,000 to new york, 19,000 to minnesota and 12,000 to maine. Yesterday the United States had the single deadliest day since the pandemic began. More than 3,100 americans died from the coronavirus and that shatters the previous single day record set back in april. Hospitalizations also at a record high nationwide above 100,000. They are bracing for a surge upon a surge from holiday gatherings. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Meantime dr. Anthony fauci telling cbs news that he will be meeting with members of
Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
Important conversation to be had this afternoon, and i am thrilled to have the privilege to spend some time with our following guests. I want to be very clear, my goal was to discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are go
Pleased to be in conversation today with my colleague, judith butler, discussing the new book the forc of nonviolence. Judith butler is a fundamental voice in our understanding of gender, sexuality, politics, theory and of the author of 13 books including like i said the force of nonviolence. Judiths a professor in the department of compative literature and prossor in the program and critical theory at uc berkeley. So, welcome, judith. Im pleed to be here and speang with you. Im excited to talk with you about your new book. I thought we might begin our conversati helping readers understand that intervenon of the book the sort of conceptual basis in your argumen for reimagining the conception for nonviolence. The book sort of encourages an understanding of nonviolence thats left rooted in a kind of individual morality and a more than concerted politic practice. I thought we would sort of bin by taking a minute to explain why thehift away from kindf indidual morality as you put it someti