Reasons. We ask all of you to be active participants in tweeting. In toms place, let me Say Something i think he might have wanted to say about the importance of race and space and the importance of the ways in which policing have defined the spaces propriety of citizenship, in the United States of america. Ferguson brings us here. Ferguson is just a metaphor for an ongoing history that the state forces, that the white citizens that sees white citizens and class as the defining marker for the ways in which race continues to be made in the united dates of america. That said, i want to thank jim grossman from the American Historical Association for encouraging panels like this that link the past, present, and future. We all know as members of this august association that the American Historical Association has not always been responsive to contemporary moments and sometimes has been on the wrong side of history. We want to applaud the leadership in this moment for allowing us to come tog
Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that theres some problems with leadership resources. Were also entering a period where theres going to be additional demand. My background is in hr and i know that when you start hiring and training, there is a gap in your resources. So we have to be realistic about that. For us to get to where we need to be, were going to have to pull resources that we already have. Do you agree with that . I think thats right. One of the concerns that the panel had, and again, pointing to the chart that the chairman put
From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the existing concerns, then my concern is that were going to see additional gaps. And thats my concern right now. And i wanted to be clear that in the proposal, that we dont come back later and say, we still dont have the resources to do the job, knowing that all these additional things and the gap is going to be added. As an answer to that question, the proposal we made in terms of specific numbers was what we thought would address an immediate need. It was not intended to estimate how much the 201
Bank was created to spur Economic Development of the emancipated African American population in the postcivil war era. Despite significant financial contributions, the bank failed in 1874, leaving tens of thousands of depositors in financial ruin. Up next, a panel of civil rights and Business Leaders discusses the issue of black poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the freedmans bank. This event from the National Archives is about two hours. Host the first guest on our panel is miss donna o wins owens. An awardwinning journalist who served as an editor for outlets nationwide, she contributes to essence magazine. Magazine. Her byline has appeared in many places. Please give another hand for donna owens. [applause] our next guest is from the office of the comptroller where he leads a department of Community Development located in washington, d. C. Related to a staff responsible for outreach to bags and Community Partners for the creation and distribution of educational mate
Make the too big to fail banks actually safer, so they have more capital so they have to assume their own losses and they cant ship their losses to the American People. And most importantly, one of the most important powers given to the fed unprecedented power was that they are supposed to makes it that every too big to fail banks on wall street structures itself in a way that if it fails, like every other person and coming in this country, they would go into bankruptcy. The remarkable thing that doesnt get talked about much there is only one industry in the entire country that violates the most basic principle of capitalism, and that his failure. God bless you. Get an idea, get a company, work your tail off, make your fortune, that is america and we want you to do that. But on wall street, if you are a too big to fail bank and you do that and you get reckless with other peoples money and you fail, you dont go to bankruptcy. You fall into the comforting arms of the american taxpayer. A