Africanamericans in the u. S. Posted by the Manhattan Institute, hosted by the Manhattan Institute, this is two hours. I think we are ready to get started. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. Riley, im ason senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and i would like to welcome everyone to our symposium, which is called prospects for black america. Dean ball,ke to thank i want togton and thank them for their hard work. The idea is to bring people from different points of view about addressing racial problems in america. You will be hearing from liberals, conservatives, but most importantly, you will hear from people who have given serious thought to these issues. Everyone here is here to engage. There are people who are not afraid to touch third rails. Tois not because we want promote for the sake provoke for e being provocative, it is that we do not want to shy away from addressing the difficult and complicated questions. Was washington goodell washington sedenzel washington w
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Good morning again. Good morning again. Were going to continue with our program. Our panel is called culture and family, but i think we could use that as a point of did he part ture. I think culture and family could be considered one answer to the problem of African American poverty and its persistent. And im going to ask our panel to reflect broadly on that with some focus on cultural and family but not exclusively on that. We have a very distinguished panel, on my far left on my mar left is gene dattel who is the author of a powerful new book called reckoning with race, americas failure. He grew up with the mississippi delta and has been surrounded by africanamerican poverty his whole life and is perplexed by it. Anthony bradley from Kings College say distinguished faculty member there and the author of the director of the center for human flower risching, chair of the religious and Theological Studies Program and the author of the book blook and tired liber brating black theology. A
I think roowere ready to ge started. I want to thank everyone for joining us today, my name is wi riley is titled prospects for black america. Before we get started, i want to thank a few people starting with larry moan from the man at that time has been institute who signed off on this event and i want to thank dea n, tanisha and debby who contacted the hard panelists and securing the venue cht i want to thank them as the well. Id this is our third annual symposium and the idea is to omf bringfe other people with different points of view about addressing racial problems in hn america. Youll beg hearing from some democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives but moso importantly youll be hearing from people who given serious thought to these issues and dont dismiss out of hand people who think differently from that. Everyone here is here to engage. Youll be hearing from people who rrnt afraid to touch some third rails. Thats what the Manhattan Institute specializes in. Rails touching
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