Social technology in order to frame the problem. In a more constructive way. When he you think about the last year where we have gone from its not because there images, weve had images of please beating black people since rodney king. Thats nothing new. Whats new is the activists have been able to use these images to focus attention to start a conversation. I think you need a forum. Thats thats a conversation we need to have. I think its a process. Its powerful, i think just as we made this country we went from slaves and justice we had a Successful Civil Rights Movement making it go undercover it to go away but we made it go undercover again we can make progress in this area. Its awkward to lead to a utopia, get im not coming up with specifics because im trusting this process will help us understand where we need to go. Also have an issue where two or more people need to come to a place where we are comfortable listening to people who are on the other side of that racial divide and no
I mean, the klan is not avoiding it. Right . The extreme right wing is not avoiding the coming demographic changes in the country, but the liberal establishment avoids it and the left avoids it as well. And i think there are theyre afraid to poke the bear, afraid to say this is the big deal. This country is going to change. Theyre afraid to talk about race and in relationship to what it means to be american or american identity or american exceptionalism. So, theres a lot of denial and avoidance, and i think we have to stop that. We have to find a way to talk about it and thats why i think philosophers can make a contribution despite the fact were not social scientists but we can help provide concepts in a way to talk about what whiteness is, thats realistic, neither naive. Host youre wearing a Bernie Sanders button but you saw the left, including Bernie Sanders, is avoiding the topic. Can you give examples how theyre avoiding the topic. Guest yes. Bernie is actually one of the ones wh
Hillarys slogan, is similarly problemat ying. When was the United States ever whole . Host why do you think Bernie Sanders faced so much backlash from the black lives matter group when he said, all lives matter . Guest well, he didnt really issue in that slogan. It was initiated by some people after the black lives matter hash tag got circulated. So he said it in one speech. But i think he has an understanding and he has had it consistently through his senate career, that we have particular challenges to the valuing and the equality of black and brown bodies in the United States, and native americans as well. So, we have of course, all lives matter but we need to redress the particular obstacles that some of our citizens and other People Living in this space faced in just daytoday survival. Host the book is called the future of whiteness. The author is professor of philosophy, linda alcoff, and mike is in new york city, calling in. Mike . Good afternoon. Caller good afternoon. Id like
Another direction in terms of how she raised her funds. She had several super pacs. Her largest super pac reported raising 25 million from special interests, including 15 million from wall street. [booing] now, in addition to that, as some of you know, secretary clinton has given a lot of speeches on wall street behind closed doors. And she has received 250,000 bucks in speech. Now, i kind of think that if youre going to get paid 250,000 for a speech, it must be a brilliant speech. It must be an earthshattering speech. Written in shakespearean prose. [cheering] Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie bernie and, and if that speech is so great, i think the American People have the right to hear it. [cheering] now, i dont know why but i myself have not gotten an invitation to speak on wall street. Not for 250,000, not for 25,000, not for two dollars, they havent invited me. But i got my cell phone on and im waiting for the call, and if it comes this is what i would tell t
Good to have you here. Good to be here. Not so unusual on the first trading day of the year that you would have a reversal of some of the trends you saw last year. Overall stocks were up and now they are down. Individual stocks did very poorly last you and are up today. That is right. Tried to play the counter trade. Time for a big picture. To tell you what is happening right now, we will start with the s p 500. Down about one percent. We were up six percent in 2013. No one wanted to sell them. Today, fine. We put a little bit of the profitability in our park it pocket. This is a surprise. Right now, the yield is 298, about twoyearm high. That is in spite of that her data. Manufacturing, construction, and jobs, all better. It may be the same sort of thing. You take ons down enough and people will buy them. That in turn pushes the yield down. You take hold down far enough and eventually people will buy it. It had the worst year in 12 years. Today, people are buying it. Everything is run