[closed session] [closed session] commissioner turman we are back on the record in open session and you still have quor. All right. We are back in open session. We have before us whether or not we should disclose the business we took care of in closed session. Do i have a motion . Mover nondisclosure second. New will set all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . Unanimous50. Next line item mdm. Sec. Item number eight adjournment action item do i have a motion . So moved. Second. We are adjourned. Thank you everybody. [gavel] [adjournment] speed good morning welcome to sunny know we doubt. I am Deborah Nieman executive director of the newly Valley Community benefit district. [applause] yes. Longtime resident. So welcome to know we value the land of [inaudible] its the heart of our study and the heart of district aged i like to knowledge a few key people here today. I know i will miss him and im sure somebody will remind me were nudged me. But i like to note board president
For three years in a row. Something else he said was good news. In a row. S trust me on this. He said the organization is hale and hearty and alive and well, and i am proud to be associated with it. What has it meant for the Civil Rights Movement that you have been involved in for your entire life and still are as the chairman of the naacp, to have a black man in elected as president of the United States. It means the work we have doing since 1909 is worth it. We were talking together and joked upstairs about how the headline in the onion the day after obama got it, black man gets worst job in the United States [laughter] it means that the work we have been doing all these years has paid off. It does not mean our work is over. There is more work to be done. No one can believe that barack obama would be president of the United States if it had not been for the work of the and aa cp. Of the naacp. The work done by these people and these groups. It was like vindication that all of this la
What do you feel about the Current Supreme Court . Julian bond they are awful. They are not all awful but the majority is awful. I cant quote this exactly so i hope youll understand. You read the decision in the almart case. Justice scalia writes that business is always hire the very best people. [laughter] there is no reason they would not hire the very best people. Therefore the argument the other people are making is nonsense. If you have that kind of reasoning, how can you expect anything but garbage to come out . And garbage came out of him this time and in other decisions they made. It is a bad court. Warren olney they are going to be there for a long time. Julian bond yes they are, they are, unless someone intervenes. [laughter] warren olney you are not talking about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee . Julian bond no, we are gone. Warren olney what happened to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee . It became a Different Organization after you found it and no
About today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the pres
Quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the present even in terms of like everything is great or everything is terrible. The future will be wonderful or the future is going to be awful. Um adding here that as with all of my