You once again good afternoon and we want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference and thank you for so much for being a part of this great conference. Again lets get the organizes a big hand for organizing and putting this together. [applause] they always do such a great job. This panel is part of the great job that they are doing today. Race ,com,com ma power and politics is the title of our panel. Our moderator is marcus ford. William jelani cobb Obery Hendricks Michele Wallace. Thank you and good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello. We would like to first of all thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers conference. My name is wallace ford. Im the chairman of the Public Administration department at Medgar Evers School at inappropriate business and the other is the commentary blog soon to be in book form called love and hate the time of obama and a host of inclusion showed which can be seen in various parts of the country. The introduction has to do with the t
Governor blagojevich, theres obviously been criticism about the president s decision to commute your sentence. Its certainly within his power to do so. What interests me since youve been out in the statements youve made youve shown no remorse for the crimes you were convicted by a jury of and are portraying yourself as a victim of persecution by prosecutors. Just about everyone though thats looked at the evidence against you says thats just false. Well, i dont think theyve looked carefully because i am a political prisoner. I was put in prison for practicing wait a minute. Youre a political prisoner . Nelson mandela was a political prisoner. They have no undue process and unjustly jailed and you had jury convict you. You had appeals courts look at your sentencing and you even you even appealed to the Supreme Court twice and they refused to hear you. So youre hardly a political prisoner. Well, first of all, Nelson Mandela went before a court. He was convicted in a court of law. I had by
Moments ago. Governor blagojevich, theres obviously been criticism about the president s decision to commute your sentence. Certainly within his power to do so. What interests me since youve been out and the statements youve made youve shown no remorse for the crimes you were convicted by a jury of and portraying yourself as a convict of persecution by prosecutors. Just about everyone though thats looked at the evidence against you says thats just false. Well, i dont think theyve looked carefully because i am a political prisoner. I was put in prison for practicing wait a minute. Youre a political prisoner. Nelson mandela was a political prisoner. They have no undue process and unjustly jailed and you had appeals courts look at your sentencing and you even you even appealed to the Supreme Court twice and they refused to hear you. So youre hardly a political prisoner. Well, first of all, Nelson Mandela went before a court. He was convicted in a court of law. I had by a racist apartheid
Cambridge is indeed in labor and having the baby. We should get word any hour, several hours, could be overnight. Not sure yet. Lets take a look around because the whole scene here is dramatically different than this time yesterday, bill. We have hoards of press as you can see. They have been stake out positions for weeks. There are some folks out there wonder why anybody cares . People here care and they are packed all around the barricades, watching with their cameras waiting for any indication that something is going on. Lets look at the lindo wing door, it is covered with Police Across this whole area, blocked off except for a few cars that need to come through this area. That is the famous door where we saw Prince Charles and Princess Diana bring william out when he was born. When were in london, who better than amy kellogg, our london correspondent to chat with us. Amy, come in here. You and i were talking earlier today and it feels like everything is going well right now. Certai
Ships have been blocked. They have moved to black the entrance to a lake. This is a very interesting movie. The pro Russian Parliament has called for a referendum on whether to stay part of the ukraine. They want it to take place in ten days time. Lets begin at the white house. Reporter today, we see a sort of symphony of diplomacy. All 28 yeerp peen heads of state hold a special sanction. Something thats also been actively repaired for right here. Well, russia still insists all those system engineers arent russian. We dont accept anything that president putin said as fact. Carefully. The United States and its partners is focusing intensely on a remedy. Reporter john kerry met with his russian counter part who then refused to meet with ukraine. They are urging russia to pull back its troops, let in International Observers who yesterday were blocked from getting into ukraine and continue discussions. The result now moves towards sanctions by europe and by the u. S. On its own. Were at a