Thank you pastor keaton, thank you, pastor keaton, ms. Keaton, members of morris brown ame for welcoming us here tonight and particularly that choir we could listen to you all night. Fortunately well have another chance so thank you. Thank you all and welcome everyone. It is so nice toll be back an opportunityve to discuss things that matter in this community and discuss how we can make them better. I want to thank, i hope you had the opportunity to get some of the food that was served up outside by them firster of all, morris brown member Reggie Simmons cooking up a lot of the sides. And then we had Benjamin Carnell come down here from South Carolina. He is so committed to what the forum needs and what it is doing hes a lawyer in South Carolina and county counsel and eddie drove down here and cooked the chicken and the sausage for us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated his time at donated all that food, and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend.
Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. This ear ferguson is on our minds. I think locally it has to be these ferguson problems are local problems. They ar
That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a result of god then thank you god. Host do you view this as a Christian Movement . Guest it was a religious movement not christian. There were as many jews involved in the rights as christians. There were other religions. I studied all of the great religions. The first a i got in college was in comparative religion. My father was a minister. I grew up in the fundamentalist church. We believed in dunking and my wifes church believed in sprinkles. All of these are symbolic of how to live and find t
Determination and black people thinking of themselves in way that that in the 1960s were profoundly impossible in some ways. That they were eloquent, beautiful, intelligent, that they had the right to disagree with each other and the mainstream is possible without Stokely Carmichael. I willconclude by saying that the most burped thing to me about writing the book, stokely a life, was providing an introduction to Stokely Carmichael kwame ture to a generation of americans who dont realize the profound impact he had on american democracy and globally. And whether you agree or disagree with the aspects of what he did he was always, always personal sincere. His sincerity and love for the underdog and poor people and passionate belief in social and political justice is what stands out for me. And the fact he really, really walked the dtalk. He didnt just say he was advocating for black equality. He lived a life of black equality even if that meant not getting the benefits that would have com
To start off with a callin question and how many times were you arrested during the civil rights hay day . Guest i didnt keep track. But i talked about the first one and the last one in the book. The first one is the day i met my wife. We met in jail. The last time was in columbia, South Carolina in 1961. I remember that one because that arrest led to a landmark breach of peace case called edwards against South Carolina. It began a Law School Case that most universities use the case book method use that case to teach from. I happen to be one of those arrested that day. I remember those two. In between a lot of times we got arrested and were never really charged. Just taken to the police station, taken off the streets and put back on with once the crowd disbursed. Host why were you and Emily Clyburn arrested and what year was it . Guest march of 1966 and it was six weeks after the students in greenboro, North Carolina were arrested and several weeks before we first met greensboro at Sha