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king or i'm de demonizing malcolm x and ella baker.to get us to stand in right relation with ourlars so that we can continue to find our voices ■becafollow them, we stop the hard work of excellence. well, i want■ t to take this point one step further and apply something you don't but i think it's so relevant to what you just said■% and there'm you use in the book you use this term in the chapter on dr. king. how do you understand or interph the backlash against the tth history, the backlash as the which the work of being better peles actu on their full scale assault? abutely. absolutely. you know, richard slotkin has a new book tibes this moment as a second lost cause. hmm. and, you know, we know what the lost cause and redemption was all about,about the violence on the ground. and right from colfax to on and across the south. right. we understand that. but it was alsri our. everyone, these are posts. slavery. instances of a massacre as a black people who were standing up for their democratic rights and freedoms that they had earned. a
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king or i'm definitely not demonizing malcolm x and ella baker. what i'm trying to do is to get us to stand in right relation with our exemplars so that we can continue to find our voices because when we stop to follow them, we stop the hard work of reaching for higher forms of excellence. well, i want to i want to take this point one step further and apply something you don't actually write about. but i think it's so relevant to what you just said about being better people and there's a term you use in the book called critical intelligence, and you use this term in the chapter on dr. king. how do you understand or how would you interpret the backlash against the humanities, the backlash against the truth telling of american history, the backlash against books as the context in which the work of being better people is actually on their full scale assault? abso lutely. absolutely. you know, richard slotkin has a new book that's coming out and he describes this moment as a second lost cause. hmm. and, you know, we know what the lost cause and redemp
king or i'm definitely not demonizing malcolm x and ella baker. what i'm trying to do is to get us to stand in right relation with our exemplars so that we can continue to find our voices because when we stop to follow them, we stop the hard work of reaching for higher forms of excellence. well, i want to i want to take this point one step further and apply something you don't actually write about. but i think it's so relevant to what you just said about being better people and there's a term...
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and so ella baker helped establish this. they played mar role in a civil movement, freedom summer freedom ride, the founding of the mississippi. freedom democratic party. voter in march on washington, key leaders were john lewis diane nash, dawes, smith, roberson and stokely carmichael. right. they train local people to lead their own movement, which is corporate participatory democracy. right. so again, they're kind of taking on like ella baker is kind of grassroots led leadership. right. right. and so, again, this kind of activism throughout the state of north carolina is activism is in larger numbers. in the mid 1960s. right then 1967 movement, 500 people are marched in charlotte area to back the rice that college students from local kind of institutions barber scotia college jcc too. some students from little big white institutions live with some college as well right in that kind of charlotte area. this is an image of boycotts and demonstrations at in durham ad howard johnson's right so this is a very large it happened
and so ella baker helped establish this. they played mar role in a civil movement, freedom summer freedom ride, the founding of the mississippi. freedom democratic party. voter in march on washington, key leaders were john lewis diane nash, dawes, smith, roberson and stokely carmichael. right. they train local people to lead their own movement, which is corporate participatory democracy. right. so again, they're kind of taking on like ella baker is kind of grassroots led leadership. right....
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., malcolm x, and ella baker., how to fight for justice in a post civil-rights era and in today's political ply climate. quote, "at the heart of the book is almost a cliche, if we are going to be the leaders we are looking for, we have to become better people." eddie, congratulations on the book. we've been anticipated this for a long time. it is here today. people can go pick it up today. what did you set out to do? i set the table a little bit, but specifically with this book, what did you want to say? >> really, i think we've outsourced, willie, our responsibility for democracy for too long. we've outsourced it to politicians, so-called prophets and heros, and we've given over our responsibility, our power. what i wanted to do, the title actually comes from ms. ella baker. ms. baker used to say, a strong people doesn't need strong leaders. she wanted us to involve ourselves or engage in politics in such a way that everyday, ordinary people, right, involved in the fray, would be involved in their lives. i'm tryi
., malcolm x, and ella baker., how to fight for justice in a post civil-rights era and in today's political ply climate. quote, "at the heart of the book is almost a cliche, if we are going to be the leaders we are looking for, we have to become better people." eddie, congratulations on the book. we've been anticipated this for a long time. it is here today. people can go pick it up today. what did you set out to do? i set the table a little bit, but specifically with this book, what...
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and ella baker, in particular was incredibly qualified. she was offered was briefly the the acting head of the sclc but executive director she's the acting executive director and she she would have been a great choice for permanent executive director job. but it was never even in ruston and prevailed on king to hire her because he had no intention yeah they knew how good and that's again because they are not from the skinhead culture of preachers who had even more bias than most of most of america had bias towards women in position of leadership in the fifties and sixties. but i think in the religious community, that bias even deeper and and it held the moving back and they were they were fortunate to have some of those people that i just mentioned working in the fields and doing a lot of the grunt work, organizing, educating, teaching nonviolent classes, knocking on doors, working on voter registration. they played an enormous role, but they did not play the kind of role that they could have. and the same is true for coretta scott king, b
and ella baker, in particular was incredibly qualified. she was offered was briefly the the acting head of the sclc but executive director she's the acting executive director and she she would have been a great choice for permanent executive director job. but it was never even in ruston and prevailed on king to hire her because he had no intention yeah they knew how good and that's again because they are not from the skinhead culture of preachers who had even more bias than most of most of...
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and ella baker, in particular was incredibly qualified. she was offered was briefly the the acting head of the sclc but executive director she's the acting executive director and she she would have been a great choice for permanent executive director job. but it was never even in ruston and prevailed on king to hire her because he had no intention yeah they knew how good and that's again because they are not from the skinhead culture of preachers who had even more bias than most of most of america had bias towards women in position of leadership in the fifties and sixties. but i think in the religious community, that bias even deeper and and it held the moving back and they were they were fortunate to have some of those people that i just mentioned working in the fields and doing a lot of the grunt work, organizing, educating, teaching nonviolent classes, knocking on doors, working on voter registration. they played an enormous role, but they did not play the kind of role that they could have. and the same is true for coretta scott king, b
and ella baker, in particular was incredibly qualified. she was offered was briefly the the acting head of the sclc but executive director she's the acting executive director and she she would have been a great choice for permanent executive director job. but it was never even in ruston and prevailed on king to hire her because he had no intention yeah they knew how good and that's again because they are not from the skinhead culture of preachers who had even more bias than most of most of...
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amna: you write about ella baker in particular, sometimes referred to as the mother of the civil rights refer to what you call her "democratic perfectionism." what does that mean? why is she an important person to highlight? >> is such an important figure. without her, the 20th century black freedom movement would not make sense. she was the first executive director for the sclc, the christian leadership conference. there's a reason why the students who participated in the sit ins in the 1960's organize themselves at shaw university. that was ms. baker's alma mater. she had this orientation that she wanted to expand who mattered in the demos, so those sharecroppers, those who fell in the cracks and crevices of our democracy, she wanted to lift them up and created politics where they could understand their own power. she said a strong people do not need strong leaders. the objectives is to create an indigenous leadership, working to understand our own power, and that's what organizing is all about, to actually engage in the hard work on the ground of creating the conditions of building c
amna: you write about ella baker in particular, sometimes referred to as the mother of the civil rights refer to what you call her "democratic perfectionism." what does that mean? why is she an important person to highlight? >> is such an important figure. without her, the 20th century black freedom movement would not make sense. she was the first executive director for the sclc, the christian leadership conference. there's a reason why the students who participated in the sit...
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we also have a history of what we would call like saturday schools, and we have ella baker schools that are really amazing. but i also think we can never not talk about and run the data on hbcu, right? hbcu, you know, when you think about black doctors. okay, hbcu does represent about 50 to 70% of black doctors. when we talk about stem education, 25% of all stem teachers come lawyers. dennis, all of them. now, these numbers seem like, oh, my god. but if you think about it, we're talking about 30 to 40 schools producing. 50 to 70% of these black professionals. we have to be asking ourselves, well, what are the other. 3000 schools doing that are taking our black right? howard university medical school just last year had 9000 applications for about 150 slots. so when we about, you know, the examples, we have so many amazing that are the examples of what we are doing we have so many folks who come out of hbcu that are examples of what happens when can nurture black excellence nurture black talent and then give them a space to be black and it grows. so i hbcu i think is the best example and
we also have a history of what we would call like saturday schools, and we have ella baker schools that are really amazing. but i also think we can never not talk about and run the data on hbcu, right? hbcu, you know, when you think about black doctors. okay, hbcu does represent about 50 to 70% of black doctors. when we talk about stem education, 25% of all stem teachers come lawyers. dennis, all of them. now, these numbers seem like, oh, my god. but if you think about it, we're talking about...
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ella baker would ask visitors and stranger. who claims you? and who do you claim in this world? and most importantly, who do you stand with in times of crisis? despair. we do not need dna tests or genealogy searches to know who are people are in this moment. if i choose to stand on the of freedom, my people are oppressed. people all over the world. people who are suffering under varied and varied and violent forms of injustice and oppression. from haiti to hebron. from birmingham to bethlehem, from shot to prison. northern israel to stateville prison. in central illinois. i claim as my people, those who are standing up to occupation, dispossession, hetero patriarchy and white supremacy, colonialism and settler colonial wisdom, antisemitism and islamophobia, environmental pillage, carceral violence and authoritarianism. my people are those truth tellers and freedom fighters of the world, those speaking truth to power in dozens of languages, silent vigils by the women in black on street in barcelona and tokyo. in madrid. saying no to war and occupation iswhat. the queer palestinia
ella baker would ask visitors and stranger. who claims you? and who do you claim in this world? and most importantly, who do you stand with in times of crisis? despair. we do not need dna tests or genealogy searches to know who are people are in this moment. if i choose to stand on the of freedom, my people are oppressed. people all over the world. people who are suffering under varied and varied and violent forms of injustice and oppression. from haiti to hebron. from birmingham to bethlehem,...
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the problem as miss ella baker said is often right in front of our noses. too much and we all have the courage and the capacity and the capability to do that work. >> your book is powerful, eddie, and the personal anecdotes are one the kind of, for me, resonate the most. i want to thank you for being here, giving us even this brief glimpse into what you have done. your new book, we are the leaders we have been looking for, is out. everybody should go and read it. officer eddie glaude, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much, take care of yourself. >>> coming up, it's election day in texas tomorrow. we'll be joined by a young nurse who has already made history in the texas senate and hopes to do it again, starting tomorrow. that's next. rrow. that's next. rer skin at 4 month. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. nothing on my skin means
the problem as miss ella baker said is often right in front of our noses. too much and we all have the courage and the capacity and the capability to do that work. >> your book is powerful, eddie, and the personal anecdotes are one the kind of, for me, resonate the most. i want to thank you for being here, giving us even this brief glimpse into what you have done. your new book, we are the leaders we have been looking for, is out. everybody should go and read it. officer eddie glaude,...
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julie london, johnny mathis, harry belafonte, sarah vaughan, chet baker.'ve always been really drawn to and very inspired by. i feel like we're lacking vocals, you know what i'm saying? i don't know. i don't know what [bleep] i'm saying, guys. if you are not every vocalist has a recognizable style as soon as you hear that. you know billie eilish when you hear her. was that the product of your love for these other artists just coming out through you or a choice? >> billie: i think that it first, you know i started recording when i was 13. you've got to take time to get to know yourself. i think at first it was, i was seeing the way i knew how to sing in the way i felt like it sounded good. with inspiration from my favorite singers and songs and artists. i think over time i learned who i was and how i actually wanted to sound and what was genuine. that's why i think it's really important that people are more forgiving of inspiration because i think that we live in a world where everyone wants to have everything be perfectly original and no one has ever done
julie london, johnny mathis, harry belafonte, sarah vaughan, chet baker.'ve always been really drawn to and very inspired by. i feel like we're lacking vocals, you know what i'm saying? i don't know. i don't know what [bleep] i'm saying, guys. if you are not every vocalist has a recognizable style as soon as you hear that. you know billie eilish when you hear her. was that the product of your love for these other artists just coming out through you or a choice? >> billie: i think that it...