Achievements. More than 1000 cadets receive their commission as Second Lieutenants in the u. S. Army. At the ceremony, the president was accompanied by luke tenet general darrell williams. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, accompanied by the president of the United States military academy. , order arms. Ladies and gentlemen, the chaplain will now offer this mornings invocation. God, gather here on the plane and online to celebrate the graduation of the class of 2020. We lead expresses their worldview that leaders of the future have a responsibility to have a vision and to see that for without a, vision, the people perish. So make us, lord, instruments of pride and, that all prejudice macys, where there is darkness, let us bring light. Ande there is despair, hope life. Where there is confusion, clarity. Where there is hatred, charity. Help us desire list to be ,nderstood then to understand and with this vision, to renew the spirit of our land. Amen. Cadets, take
National standards and significant training. You should be accredited to be a police officer. Any profession that allows you to use lethal force, there should be very significant training. Rep. Clyburn nobody is going to defund the police. We can restructure the Police Forces restructure, reimagine policing. That is what we are going to do. The fact of the matter is the police have a role to play. What we have got to do is make sure that that role is one that meets the times. One that responds to these communities that they operate in. I did not grow up in fear of police, even in a segregated environment. We never feared the police. Now, i do a sudden, fear the police. Young blacks fear the police. Why . Because we have built in a is responding, once again, to brown v. Board of education and Everything Else with it. When i was growing up, we did not have black policemen. I remember when the first black i wouldnt say defund, deconstruct our police. Washington journal cspans washington j
The first i guess is a little disturbing that it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. Particularly in the news media, the development of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were
Hay market books has more, wednesday discussion of remaking schools in the time of coronavirus and on thursday a week from today roy and conversation with the if your streaming gets choppy at any point you might want to reduce the quality. We are observing time for q a and please post questions on life video feed wherever youre watching it. Now lets go. Im mattie roy, the pandemic is some responses for covid19, policing of national and sub National Borders and more surveillance now sold to us with the message that total surveillance is good medicine, but as we try to imagine a different world and fight for abolition future theres no one i would rather hear from than ruth gilmore, the Central California Environmental Justice network. Shes professor of earth and Environmental Sciences at kennedy graduate. Author of prison, surplus, crisis and opposition and globalize in california. Brilliant study that locates prisons as the foundation of a new kind of state, the antistate state and dism
Thank you very much for coming. [applause] thanks, everyone and good day. Delighted you can comthe way ths afternoon. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco and specifically to taktalk to jessie and john fremt who had so much to do with california as we know it and is so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into San Francisco about 210230 this morning on a delayed for flight from los angeles, a couple hours of sleep and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car to do a te radio thing on the radio. The thing is that begins at the very exact time. The thing about going for San Francisco traffic at is you are not going to make your exact time. I was supposed to be 8 a. M. Specific time i would be there and im still on the road of keeping up the freeway and i dont know, 7 miles an hour, 9 miles, whatever it wa was plan looking out the side of the car and San Francisco bay is out there and the Southern Suburbs of and i am missing my deadline w