Cases unjust way and you dont have those that pick up the fruit that falls d from the tree and make jam out of it and i have in my role as an activist been more were tree shake that one that picks up a fruit and becomes one a leg to the office or head of a corporate entity in the private sector and i think theres a legitimate role for both i feel my calling is to be the one shaking trees rather than picking up fruits trying to make jam out of lets get to the jam eaters in a 2nd this book in this book you blame yourself and others becoming complacent under the Obama Presidency at tell me a bit about that and how you see that complacency is creating donald trump well i think that many of us were very supportive then are still supportive of many of the initiatives of president obama during his presidency from health care to Police Reform to other areas and did not do as much as we could to hold the opposition accountable and to hold even some aspects of his own administration that was res
Facts. Both george bush. And Michael Dukakis. Said their selections of a running mate. Would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war two. There is almost a fifty fifty chance that one of the two men here tonight. Will become president of the United States. The candidates are. Senator dan quayle the republican nominee. And senatorfor the next ninety minutes will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i may ask deceiving. By prior agreement between the two candidates the first question goes to senator quayle. And you have two minutes to respond. Senator you have been criticized as we all know for your decision to stay out of the vietnam war. Or your poor academic record. But more troubling to some of the comments that have been made by people in your own party just lastly former secretary of state said that you
National Action Network the initials of behind you that running joining the Obama Presidency i know time and time again in the book you talk about it is a model of grassroots action at the very local level to help a civil rights and social justice no i have we definitely were very active during is 8 years Trayvon Martin we were out on the front lines of that from the beginning as well as the ferguson killing in ferguson missouri Michael Brown in aragon all of that happened during the obama era what im saying is that we could do even more and i think that thats what i challenge that we should never even modify what we do and i think we were very active but i think we could have been more active while everyone knows you did you did a lot because we had we had one of the top trumps pastas. A guy called Darrell Scott he said that trump has been the most pro black president ever and of course he reminded us how black lies might have began under the a bamma presidency when those horrific Pol
Eulogy to george floyd killed by a us police i think british broadcasting regulators may allow me to say what a profound privilege it is for you to be on going underground but of course im going to ask you why is it not you rather than biden who is running against trump why do you call yourself a tree shaker in this new book of yours. I think that the history of dealing with movements in this country and even globally is that you need those of us that shake the tree in the sense of shaking up where a society has dealt in an unequal and unfair way and in many cases unjust way and you dont have those that pick up the fruit that falls d d from the tree and make jam out of it and i have in my role as an activist been more were trees shake their wonder picks up a fruit and becomes want to lead to the office or head of a corporate entity in the private sector and i think theres a legitimate role for both i feel my calling is to be the one shaking trees rather than picking up fruits trying to
Azerbaijan and armenia are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian ceasefire which came into force on saturday the u. S. President s doctor says donald trump has been cleared to return to work but wont confirm if hes tested negative for coronavirus it comes after trump addressed a crowd of hundreds of the white house but action is set to resume at libyas Largest Oil Field shut out a has been closed for most of this year almost all libyan oil exports were stopped in january by all of us forces based in the east balik trainers in tripoli with the latest. This comes as the International Community is trying to bridge the gap between the warring sides in libya and this is a step in the in the right direction of course as it comes a little bit late last month in september the u. S. Embassy posted that i have to gave a personal commitment of opening of reopening the Energy Sector by september 12th that deadline passed and the oil fields werent open but this is one of the fields one of