This is a bernie crowd. What is that . This is a bernie crowd. Senator sanders, thank you so much for joining us. I am going to kick us off and ask a question here. You have entered the field, one of the largest and most diverse fields of candidates to ever run for president on the democrat side, so what sets you apart, or why do you believe you are best suited to defeat donald trump . Sen. Sanders why dont you get to the point . [laughter] i will tell you why i believe i am best suited to defeat donald trump. And ier to defeat trump, know all of the polls out there say trump is going to be beaten, and they have me in front of him in pennsylvania, in wisconsin, battleground states. I think donald trump is good to be a tough opponent. I think he is a pathological liar. He will say anything, do anything. It is not going to be an easy campaign. I hope everybody understands this. There are a couple of reasons why i think i am the strongest candidate. We arer to beat trump, going to need a
The Historical Association for putting together this remarkable conference. And for inviting me to facilitate this panel. This conference, like its at aerpart in 1983, stands historical crossroads. Themeslarly around the of this panel race, power and urban space. The projects we will hear about ,ver the next hour and a half the questions at stake in this panel touch of the heart of modern africanAmerican History. On questions of the structure in agency. On questions of freedom and unfreedom. On questions of continuity and discontinuity. The questions of slavery and what has changed and in what ways, and why. It touches on issues of segregation and integration terms that are misunderstood in contemporary political discourse but are at the heart of how we conceptualize the history of urban space. 19 83, the field of the africanamerican urban history was very much in the shadow of the urban uprisings of the lake 1960s. Or as they were called then urban riots, perceived as a product of pat