Program. Little rock city manager [ inaudible ] committee. Nancy russo, president of Little Rock Central High School. [ cheers and applause ] michael poor, superintendent of the Little Rock School district. [ applause ] dr. Henry louis gates, the Fletcher University professor and director. [ applause ] the honestly mark stoat mayor of little rock. [ applause ] cameron scholly regional director National Park service. [ applause ] the honestly asa hutchinson, governor of arkansas. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson clinton. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please give a special welcome to the little rock nine, elizabeth he can eck bert. Ernst gray. Gloria ray car mark. Carlotta walls la near. Dr. Terrence roberts. Minnijean brown. Thelma mothershed ware. And join us in remembering the late Jefferson Thomas. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, the little rock nine. [ cheers and applause ] please welcome to the podi
Lift themselves out of poverty so to the extent of the minimum wage laws are out of the labor market to the extent that the result in a reduction of jobs overall on the economy, they dont help address poverty even though the left continues to sell minimum wage hikes as an antipoverty tool. Host as we talk about minimum wage and you write about the minimum wage if we talk about other issues that are in this book please stop hoping us to liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed, what is your commitment . Do you think is leaving the civil rights leaders to help the black community . Community . Guest i think its important not to be put into the groupthink. Its important not to say that right thing for the fear that he will be called names, and i think its amazing how the spheres can take hold. I remember going to visit my older sister back home in buffalo shortly after they started the wall street journal and i found myself in a conversation with my niece, her daughter asking her wha
Douglass or go back to the perky washington this is what they were saying. They were optimists. They said i think we are going to have them one day. But the more important job is to read the people and to be able to take advantage of those opportunities once we have been. And that has been the failure of liberalism in my mind. Is that they have not prepared to blacks through the policies that they have pushed to take advantage. We have created a people that see themselves first and foremost as victim victims and t helpful and it has to change. Host so the liberals have helped to enable the community. Guest the worst aspect of the subculture that they have helped today. Host and also at the time when the Minority Group in this country will alternately wind up being the majority in the years to come soon but at the same time you are saying that africanamericans should take the selfcontrol responsibility that when you are talking about pulling the government away from this, where does the
Its just over one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that warm introduction. Its a great pleasure to be here with you. I want to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tierney of experts. Lets call it the technocratic approach for Economic Development. Its the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical problems. So, for example the area there is a variety of Technical Solutions one of them involves spraying a chemical called pyrethroid on the walls of peoples houses and the inside wall to kill mosquitoes that kill malaria. It helps fight malaria and other Technical Solutions might be to convert land to higher value uses like from food crops that have low value to those that have higher value the approach of the element that seems so appealing Industry Forward and uncontroversial may not in fact be quite that easy. This is the punchline to a joke. This isnt a happy part of the talk im afraid. On the morning of february 28, 2
Please join us all in the book tent where we will be signing books and please join me in thanking the panelists. [applause] that concludes live coverage of the 2013 texas book festival from austin. Thanks for joining us. If you would like to get scheduling and Program Updates from book tv, go to booktv. Org or collis andre utter at book tv is our trigger handle and also our facebook address, facebook. Com booktv. If you missed any of todays events, everything that you see today will air in its entirety tonight at midnight. You are watching book tv on cspan2. In october of 2006, Henry Louis Gates described the creation of the africana the encyclopedia of the african and africanamerican experience which includes over 3,000 articles. You can watch this one hour and a ten Minute Program next on book tv. 2013 marks book tvs anniversary that debuted on september 12th, 1998. Professor gates probably doesnt need an introduction to an audience of boston. But hes had an interesting history and i