So my educated some mild literate black people hope through organizing for democracy and then a Political Revolution and calling for black power and determination. The whole idea is impossible without stokely carmichael. Selfdetermination and black people thinking of themselves in ways that in the 1960s were profoundly in some ways impossible, eloquent, beautiful, intelligent, have the right to disagree with each other and the mainstream, it is impossible without stokely carmichael. I guess we are going to take some questions at some time. I will conclude by saying, the saying, the most important thing to me was providing an introduction to a whole new generation of americans who did not realize the profound impact that he had on american democracy. Providing an introduction, whether you agree or disagree, it was always personally sincere. His sincerity and love and passionate belief is what really stands out. The fact that he really walked the talk. This is this is someone who did not
Association, thank you. I am a multimedia journalist at channel 5 news in West Palm Beach and Vice President for the National Association of black journalists the miami for lauderdale chapter and the am very happy to introduce two special guests today. Dr. Cornel west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at Union Theological seminary and Professor Emeritus at princeton university. The also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. Graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book black prophetic fire with a distinguished
Some news this morning, u. S. District judge yesterday temporary halted the president immigration executive order and his how the ap is reporting. On monday district judge in texas issued a temporary injunction giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to probably stop the order to that will go to the president orders that could spare more than 4 million 4 Million People who were in the u. S. Illegally from deportation to the statement the white house said mondays ruling wrongly prevents the presence of lawful commonsense policies from taking effect at the Justice Department will appeal a federal judges ruling according to the white house. Some reaction from capitol hill. John boehner released a statement that reads in part hopefully Senate Democrats who claim to oppose this executive overreach will not let the senate began debate on the bill to fund the Homeland Security department. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has another take on the judges decision s
The food, its not the best. But youre there. We conduct nonviolent workshops. We went bang songs. So old pharaoh to let my people go. Coetzee silas, bound in jail. No money to go in that bail. But it was there that we became a circle of trust, a band of brothers and sisters. Guest the cocacola policy considered south africa they were influenced to change the plight of things in south africa with another major corporation. Host washington please go ahead with your question or comment for representative lewis. Guest . Caller thanks for cspan. I watch daily and love it. Thank you, congress then lewis for your endurance and your hard work to build a more Perfect Union. I am a little nervous. The conservative movement i was watching bill moore the other day and they had a guy on there that was a part of the tea party and they said that they were winning. The conservative movement has been winning by using narratives that pull this country further and further to the right. Arent the socalled
Susan trust is a huge issue. You can come with all the money in the world, and you can set it right on the table, and you can lease. Do you understand what im saying . If you want to have a relationship with me, understand what it is you are living in. We are living in this together. How do we get past everything that we have been told, what i have been told, what you have been told, the myths, the misnomers, all of that . I actually am the americorps vista leader here at tulane at the center for public service. Vista, and a team of a lot of them are recent college grads. They finished in may or maybe a couple years before that or they might be grad students. We have a couple of folks outside of that range, like myself, the we are really a minority but we are a minority. Training, asking about race and gender or equality or inequality, one of the things, especially with the Trayvon Martin case that was mentioned before, one of the things that i think a lot of us conversation with peopl