Everyone knows each other and pretty much walk into each others house and just go straight to the fridge. Fitzsimons [chuckles] so youve been welcomed back. Ko yeah. Ive never beeeen shunned from this community. Fitzsimons like all the deportees, ko haapus life didnt turn out the way he planned. Now he has no option but to make the most of what he has. Ko im just concentrating on what i need to bebe doing today, instead of worrying about tomorrow and whats coming. Once were out there, were just free of everything. No one can contact me unless you swim out there and start surfing with us. Well, homes home. Cant deport me from herere. Twenty four hello and welcome to quadriga around the world one person is forcibly displaced nearly every two seconds. Thats the highest level of displacement on record it amounts to over seventy Million People trying to flee to safety. Often risking their lives in the mediterranean six hundred migrants drowned in the first half of this year alone. After a t
he wrote a book on the selective service act of 1917, and how it affected men and women during and after the war. from the supreme court chamber, this is about 45 minutes. good evening ladies and gentlemen and i am greg joseph, chair of the board of trustees of the historical society welcome to our third lecture in the leon sullivan series, and the professor will be speaking about this elective elected draft law case. let me begin by asking everyone to turn off their cell phone, not just put them on mute because it will affect the sound system, and that includes your fancy watches that are really cell phones. i want to begin also but thinking thanking justice elena kagan and we cannot be here unless we are sponsored by justice, and you do us honor by coming in this evening to introduce the professor for i have the privilege of introducing justice elena kagan, and it is a pleasure to do so. i will be brief and she had a career of distinction before she assumed her seat o
schomberg center is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of global blackp experiences. we are ahe public archive. all you need is your library card to access collections like jamess baldwin and maya angelou and many other folks. i m excited to join tracy and jennifer and lucy and herb for this conversation today, because much of what amistad is about is really what the schomberg is about,he unearthing, ensuring tt black voicesin are included in society, are heard, are published, that they are telling their stories through their own lens. and sogh we ll just get started. first i just really want to acknowledge this momente and sa we are appreciative that you have decided to join us. i m still acclimating to the world. hande claps to everyone here, thank youn brooklyn book festival. so this conversation is really a continuation of one that we started asas part of the schombg virtuall literary festival aroud freedom to publish, where we had a conversation
still can t [inaudible] why the looting, why the violence? angry about the way we re being viewed as not people. a recent poll finds most americans believe race relations in this country are bad. more than 50% of whites think so. more than two-thirds of blacks feel this way. people are angry. where we go from here, i don t know. there s one race, the human race. we ve been together and apart more than 239 years, part of this great experiment, the united states of america. [cheers and applause] there have been incredible gains on many fronts. change has come to america. [cheers and applause] and yet we still have seen dramatic and dangerous instances. the parishioners have bibles. dylann roof had his 45 caliber black pistol. the pain that this causes us all as a loss, this is to the entire society. it s beyond my comprehension how anybody could do the act that this young man did. a poll shows of 0% of white 60% of white people are uncomfortable
to reiterate the point, the default has always been white. you are moving out of that position. black life matters is problematic in some ways because we still have to say that. because the default position fundamentally is still light. bruce: i need you guys to look at this here. people are doing better, i me would not have this problem of, i am losing so you must be winning pair take a look at unemployment numbers. we just need a reference point. the black unemployment rate has gone down. for hispanics, the numbers almost 7% today and has gotten better pay her for whites, the unemployment rate is 4.6% compared to 7% in 2009. the point being, it has gotten better for the economy and the economy has gone better. i want to come back to you, chris. when you re talking on the phone, you re talking about a group of white men out there who feel as though, who are we talking about? chris: in terms of white privilege we will talk about what privilege later we want to talk abou