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assaulted. it is the living politics. [applause] say that wanted to next question,he one of the most interesting moments in my political education is when i came out of prison in 1999. that aber very clearly friend of mine talk to me about the privileges i had that i did not know i had. he was talking about rebuilding my life. i looked at him and got angry. i said, first of all i just got a prison. i m still on parole. shut up about my perl urges my privileges. explained to me, you know what, brother, let me talk to you about the things that you never knew or understood you have. it was a telling moment. he said, you have amle privilege. male privilege. i said, what he is saying, man? i m fresh out of the joint. he said, what have you ever done to protect your self from someone raping you when you walk all midnight. you came here and became a citizen. what happens to you when you get arrested and go to prison, versus a person undocumented thrown in prison and not ch ....
how are you doing sir? i represent part of des moines. welcome to the state fair. we do receptions every night. we have a lot of legislators around. we are very proud of our relationship with the legislature. school no longer starts during the fair which is a big deal for us. it s at about 30 years to get it done. when you are in the state house, they give you money and still send you parking passes. that is a good thing. mr. kasich: you are rebuilding all of this. we raised $13 million in 20 years. have the congress in ohio. we just had to build a giant building for them. very impressive year. here. thank you. thank you for being here. did you have a great day? mr. kasich: a great day. every day in iowa is great. you.have a question for fromommate in college is new philadelphia, ohio. mr. kasich: i have been there like five times. would you mind taking a picture with me? mr. kasich: do you know where new philadelphia is? is that where he is from? my roo ....
some kind of decision-making and action. process that we can , start to manifest, what that future might look like. one thing we have seen and we were talking about before the panel, we had a great conversation. we said we wished we could be up there right now talking. the ways in which current politics, particularly having a black president, what an existential breakthrough that was for people in spite of the results of that. it is not one thing, it is multiple things at the same time. what has come out with the black lives matter movement is some kind of glimmer beyond this political system. some kind of glimmer beyond capitalism. ms. taylor: sort of what i was speaking to before, then need for people to understand what our history is. to be reconnected with that particularly the history of radicalism and struggle. so much work it goes into disconnecting us from that history. it is one way too thick about the schools crisis. our youngonly robbing people of the basic e ....
then speeches from the senate floor. joined to kend we re learn more about the history of grand junction, colorado. all over the joined to colorado about plateau and especially here in mesa county outside of grand junction we are surrounded by morrison rock. we find a lot of fossils. the other thing pa we also find is a mineral colorado carnatite. called it contains minerals used to strengthen steel. during the buildup to world war ii and during world war ii tself it was of extreme value. uranium, as we know, is one of the best sources for atomic power and weapons. he fought the battle to reserve water for western colorado by making sure that we got our fair share. how did he do that? well beginning in his state going on to his federal career he climbed up the ladder of seniority and was able to exercise i think more power than you might normally have. certainly in the united states congress where he was able to make sure colorado and western colorado would be treat ....
clinton bid. first woman president, symbolic. what would martin luther king think 50 years on from the i have a dream. brother martin would have tears in his own. dr cornel west, practicing at the seminary in new york and professor at princeton. our special guest. dr cornel west, welcome to talk to al jazeera . good to have you. might i say i salute al jazeera, to have high qualityism on the air is beautiful to behold. you are a world renowned academic, threologian, academic. you lectured around the globe. if there s one thing you want people to take away from your appearances, what would it be? it would be that it s worthwhile to engage in a quest for truth, understanding that truth is to allow suffering to speak. a baby in every corner of globe in tel aviv, west bank, yemen, connecticut or a baby in south side chick chicago, it means you are committed to the decenties and humanity of every person, each human has a participation to be decent and ha ....