americans who are either part of or agree with the goals of the tea party. he doesn t know any of them. but to call them racist and to use a violent, see, people don t know their history, what mr. west is referring to is that the klan was violent. they would kill you this cross was the symbol of the violence that if you caused trouble, you african-americans, we re going to hurt you and hurt your family physically. this is really violent. as far as i know the tea party never hurt anyone. they don t interrupt meeting bike the occupy wall street movement does. they don t destroy property. so i just think it was a sickening display and i will give you the last word. it is actually very pavlovian because we continue to reward this type of behavior. they reelected grayson and you don t hear anyone taking him to task on it and i m quite sure that they are championing him on another
americans who are either part of or agree with the goals of the tea party. he doesn t know any of them. but to call them racist and to use a violent, see, people don t know their history, what mr. west is referring to is that the klan was violent. they would kill you this cross was the symbol of the violence that if you caused trouble, you african-americans, we re going to hurt you and hurt your family physically. this is really violent. as far as i know the tea party never hurt anyone. they don t interrupt meeting bike the occupy wall street movement does. they don t destroy property. so i just think it was a sickening display and i will give you the last word. it is actually very pavlovian because we continue to reward this type of behavior. they reelected grayson and you don t hear anyone taking him to task on it and i m quite sure that they are championing him on another cable news network.
to blow up the credit. i m not going to pay for debts that i had already taken on. i don t think that s right. if you go a step back and see underlying cause for their frustration, that wasn t right either. up next, more of my conversation with lloyd blankfein including how he intends to mark the second anniversary of the occupy wall street movement. i must send flowers. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day women s 50+ is a complete multivitamin
you covered so carefully for the nation, the occupy movement. and this was a moment when there was an attempt to reconfigure, at least the discursive space about what americans value. how successful do you think occupy actually was in changing what the inside the beltway conversation was, about what constitutes americans? they were able to get the president of the united states, president obama, to talk about class. that in itself is a huge achievement, to have the president talk about that. wealth division is the defining issue of tour time, i think he said, and that was a direct cause of the occupy movement. however, it was clear how far to the right we had strayed that the tea party was so much better able to capitalize on their movement than the occupy wall street movement was. that was also different in motives, but it was just interesting that the tea party was able to slip into government rather easily, whereas the occupy wall street movement was painted as radicals from get
so we just as a country got ahead of ourselves and now we re kind of an emerging economy again along with spain probably even portugal. and just coming back to what lloyd was talking about there and you mentioned obviously the occupy wall street, i would be on the left of that because i think we should be listening to some of the things that these people are saying. i would actually have a sneaking regard for some of the things they say. and if you look at cgi, it s a perfect antidote to that because major corporates whether they are in the u.s. or europe or all around the world, multinationals, need to do more in their communities and goldman sachs has done fantastic community initiatives in the u.s. but more and more we need to move away from this statement in our annual reports to actually doing something impactful. i think particularly in africa, particularly in all of the emerging markets, companies that go and invest in those countries