[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] b if i can have your attention please, we will get started. thank you everyone. i am pleased to row here. i am lawrence mone present at the manhattan institute. thank you. [applause] it s a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. as most of you know jason s a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news . in his new book, false black power? jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power which he argues us fail to produce significant results for african-americans. the book also includes responses to jason s arguments from two leading black intellectuals john mcwhorter and glenn lowry. so slender book but it packs a powerful punch. as one blogger noted what makes this book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of its writing style. just as fred astaire dance that is rarely expre
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] b if i can have your attention please, we will get started. thank you everyone. i am pleased to row here. i am lawrence mone present at the manhattan institute. thank you. [applause] it s a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. as most of you know jason s a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news . in his new book, false black power? jason offers a critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power which he argues us fail to produce significant results for african-americans. the book also includes responses to jason s arguments from two leading black intellectuals john mcwhorter and glenn lowry. so slender book but it packs a powerful punch. as one blogger noted what makes this book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of its writing style. just as fred astaire
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intense strife that had been left out of the story. and a moment that resonates into the present day. with union victory in confederate defeat that first week of april 1865, everything was at stake. black freedom had been seized and delivered, but would it last? peace would soon be declared but coded into her could it endure? where and how would former slaves live and work, could they become citizens? what kind of nation with the people and their leaders create? two days after lee s surrender president lincoln addressed a crowd at the white house. no one knew at the time that this would be his last speech. reflecting on the nation s reconstruction, lincoln stated that he would prefer his word the voting rights be extended to black men who were very intelligence and who serve our cause as soldiers. this cautious suggestion irritated abolitionists heard as one white new england are in her diary, why can t he cut down the whole tree instead of just lopping off the branches