i want donna to take the responsibility of talking about what is happening in washington did what we are likely to see in the lame-duck session and i could probably answer what we have already done and that is nothing. what we may do, however, in a lame duck session is a lot, but we have to get there first and

that is november 4th and we have exacting responsibilities to ourselves. and we have distributed to you, remarks that were made by first lady michele obama july 30th, 2014, and she was speaking to the summit of the mandela washington fellowship for young african leaders. and will not miss any of it in these brief remarks but i hope he will pick up a copy of it. i thought was a sterling example of how to talk to others about the environment and that is what this conference is about, how we got to the topic when women succeed, america succeeds. my colleague, donna edwards, who

represents maryland's fourth congressional district, that contemplates prince george's and data rondel counties, something she doesn't know the 9 know, that most women may not know, and that is that a lot of the books you all read come out of prince george's county. there are people there and write stories. i read a few of them, trying to keep up with you but she also has exacting responsibilities for the democratic body. donna edwards is the representative for recruiting candidates in this nation for the democratic party. that is a tremendous responsibility, she travels an awful lot and a great amount of

work. just to keep with all on madison's way of going about it, you know i like to tell a joke just for the sake of and most times it doesn't relate to anything, but my favorite jokes lately is a congress person died and went to heaven and when they got to have been st. peter told the minister we have this nice efficiency for you, it is spartan but it will cover your needs. congressman, you come on in, here at -- all kinds of resorts' are here for you and wait a minute, why am i getting the efficiency and this congressman is getting a sweet and st. peter told him reverence, ministers are a dime a dozen up here but this is the first congressman we have ever seen.

[applause] >> we do get to go to heaven and we do god's work. that work the two is not easy in these times. when we go back next week, we will be dealing with the continuing resolution for the funding of the government that keeps us stable. it is part of our responsibility to deal with the president's requests for added funding. it is under a portion of the lot in congress appropriations called title 10 which allows for equipping and training people and not will not get into the substance of that particular matter. the lame duck session of congress i have participated in

have been where a lot of action takes place and i will leave it to my colleague. she has five minutes to tell you where we go from here but i am just delighted she came here and do was her idea along with another colleague that we use the term when women succeed america succeeds and when president obama put it in his state of the union address i was seated close to donna and he said when women succeed america succeeds and donna said yes! [applause] >> thank you very much and good morning. i am excited to be easier. really delighted. it is true when women succeed america succeeds, it is not a slogan, it is a fact.

it is great to beat here with you with all of the committee, thanks so much. this morning my friend, my colleague, my guiding hand alcee hastings told we what we might do in a lame-duck session and i read an article that was recently in politico, it says this would be the latest lame-duck session and i thought all appropriate for what has been one of the latest congresses we have seen in generations. so a lame lame-duck congress following a do nothing congress is probably quite appropriate. and so i thought i would start by telling you the things we should do during a lame-duck congress. what we should do that could turn this congress into a do

something congress would be to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage because most minimum-wage workers are women, the federal minimum wage since right now at a double that doesn't allow people to live and work 40 hours a week at minimum wage and not reach the poverty line. so we could do that in a lame-duck session. that would include tipped workers and for minimum-wage workers two thirds of them are women and the majority of those women, a vast number of those women are black and brown women, women of color. a lame-duck congress could pass an increase in the federal minimum wage. il lame-duck congress we could to the superintendent's point pass comprehensive immigration reform. we could do the a way that respects families, that values our economy, brings people out

of the shadows and contributing trillions of dollars to our economy but we are not going to do that either. that is what a lame-duck congress could do. a lame duck congress could pass a transportation infrastructure bill that would provide long-term funding to rebuild our roads, bridges, rails, all of our infrastructure and bring it into the 21st century, contribute hundreds of thousands of jobs, that is what a lame-duck congress could do but that is not what we are going to do. a lame-duck congress could also make certain that when i get to where i am going and i do know where i am going in the afterlife i will be counting heads because i'm not sure about all these people in congress but a lame-duck congress actually could remove the money quotient out of politics. you saw it in florida, we have seen it around the country, too much money spent in politics,

money spent that is star, not transparent, it is depressing, are lame duck congress could do something about that but that is not what we are going to do. we will pass a continuing resolution that would get us to mid december and because we don't know where politics are all lined, whether democrats which i believe are going to continue to control the senate and i hope we get the house so that we actually could do something in a real congress for the american people. [applause] >> the other thing we need to do in this lame-duck congress depending what we do with the president outlined for us on foreign policy agenda with respect to this serious respect to what is happening now in iraq and syria with the increased threat from isis. many of us want a single, solitary, separate vote on that

end we will see in this congress, we will do something in this next week when we come back into session ended maybe the we will do something else in a lame-duck congress. i noticed the timekeeper, very good, held up that chart, i have thirty-second left which is probably appropriate because i wanted to be able to say more about what we should be doing in congress when we come back but given that we haven't done anything for the american people over the last two years in the republican controlled congress we are not going to be doing that much in december either. i will say lastly one other thing the lame-duck congress shouldn't be doing, that is taking yet another vote to repeal the affordable care act. we already had 53, we had the 50 third vote a couple days ago.

we know what you feel about the affordable care act. we don't have to do that anymore. we will not be doing that in a lame-duck congress and we look forward to the next congress that will hopefully be a do something congress working jointly with the president of the united states to do what is right by the american people. [applause] >> i failed to introduce properly my congressman, congressman alcee hastings. [applause] >> i think all the people in this room know who he is. sometimes you get comfortable but to the c-span audience, congressman alcee hastings. we are really pleased with all of our speakers, you all are just awesome and we want to open the floor up for a few questions

and i am sure my time keeper will keep us on track so if there are questions for any of the speakers today, it you could proceed to the microphone, there's one here, one here, and if not we will move our program. no questions? okay. the next speaker is maggie anderson which is where that is coming from. there really is an anderson. and maggie and her family made history and dominated headlines as national media covered their yearlong stand in honor of black professionals and businesses in neighborhoods. the anderson family lived exclusively out of black businesses and bosh blackstone products for an entire year's. this first-ever real-life case

study in self help economics of the empowerment experience she earned a political degree from emory university, an m.b.a. from the university of chicago where president obama was her law professor and meant for. before the experiment, rushed was an aide to john lewis, a political speech writer and legal strategy executive at mcdonald's corp. and a strategy consultants so please welcome my new sister and i think you will be just floored by the information she had to share with us today and maggie anderson. [applause] >> i am so honored to be one of the speakers today and celebrate four years of women in power empowerment conference. before i begin i put my heart on

the platter for bernadette for inviting me to be here today. thank you to my new sister for making this journey for community and women's empowerment elise's easier and a lot more worthwhile. i want to thank you for allowing me to share my empowerment story, the empowerment experiment. here are some highlights. we did as much as we could for a whole year, invested $94,000 that year that we would not have otherwise lose 90% of our spending went without, we paid more, spend less because there were so few options, we were disappointed by the number of markets and industries where receptor complete lack of representation, and lack of solidarity. black people of people, what they have to do it in retail and food efforts, can't get a decent

piece of fish or banana or whole grains, forced to settle for inferior goods and services and shopowners to won't live with us, sometimes don't hire us, but use our money to send their kids to college. is painful hearing this story, they work hard, it wasn't just that, we beg the political leaders, present company excluded and a wealthy business owners to help us take this message to the next level and they responded with nothing but a pat on the back because they thought it was a waste of time. self-help economics too controversial to this community even though every other ethnic and racial groups and nationality openly practice self-help economics. [applause]. >> baking our own people to keep supporting one another and all they do is complain about what

they received, out what they supported years ago that they never had a bad experience at hispanic vote or middle eastern alone or agent don't business. it was hurtful and fearful being called a racist or the other and word. it was a threat in the mail, died and word die. they're still up today. humiliating taking cbs news and pbs news hour and c-span to black areas of chicago struggling through economic deprivation, drug addicts on the streets, watching them shake their heads as we went. the door and business to business, we're doing a story on black businesses, may we need your own? sometimes blocks or miles before encountering a black proprietor. why is it that black people have to buy food from liquor stores? i don't know.

i don't know. what a shame, she said. oh my god, look at all these people. everyone is black but the business owner. that is racist. that is my arianna huffington by the way. where is jesse jackson. hy don't know, i don't know. mortifying. almost all the businesses you saw in that video except one. you read about them in the book, they're all gone, banks, grocery store, a shoe store, good people who represent an investment in struggling community with love, integrity and pride and my daughter still asks about them. island a lot that year. and we thought before that year's so we did it all and we were doing enough. we ridges and naive, nerdy couple. my husband is a finance guy who worked his way from detroit to harvard, earned his nba, my

parents came from cuba with nothing. i grew up not far from here, in miami and went on to emory university watching john lewis. and lift the games and went to university of chicago for my nba and law degree, among other things. and we were in graduate school. we bought our home in a pricey suburban chicago, had two beautiful baby girls, living the perfect american dream story but why do something this extreme to prove our love for our people and our willingness to stand up for them? likely not doing anything, active in the youth ministry, john was a mentor with the black man, teaching our girls to love themselves, their god, their country, and once in a while we

donated to black candidates when the broker enough. wasn't that enough? philanthropy is commendable but it is does not recall the philanthropist to overlook economic injustice which makes philanthropy necessary. i am going to teach on saturday morning, circulating and the community's bank retailers for 28 days. our jewish friends pier 19 days, predominantly white suburbs, 17 days, keep their daughters for a week, the black community we are celebrating today for six hours. these are facts. it is a responsibility to include these facts, these disparities and their implications and the conversation about the crisis in the black community.

the unemployment and economic problems in our country and the discussion for the need for more business diversity in corporate america that there is a better version of that story. it too needs to be talked and tolls again. this story. my empowerment story comes from a long line of intelligent black women, women like you, women like mary stuart. in 1832 mary stuart stood in front of an audience of blacks and a few whites, men and women in boston and she explained the gardens in africa away. no use to sit with hands folded hanging hour heads. let us make a mighty effort and arrive and do you ask what we can do? build a store of your own, and the others with groceries. do you ask where is the money?

we have spent more than enough on nonsense. she said this in 1832. marie stewart was possibly the first african-american male or female to call publicly on blacks to support each other in business. two demonstrating events, first the death of her husband three years after they got married and her husband's business was stolen by white business associates who robbed their estate. in the aftermath of such strategy stewart got angry and inspired writing opinion pieces and speaking publicly and calling on blacks and the themselves up. nearly a decade before frederick's douglas started talking about racial injustice. i got my voice from marie. to date is about marie too. woman of color empowered. i think how silly and hopeless

our brothers and sisters, elders and ancestors must have felt when they walked to work, to church, hopeless, desperate, miles and miles and did that hot alabama son, apparently functioning available montgomerie buses passing back. i think about a woman who inspired that smart and strong activism. i wasn't around but i do know the time when our community came together. our country came together because of black woman decided to take a stand. i am not her. i won't in salt and legacy by comparing my sacrifice to hers but i will dishonored if i don't learn from her sacrifice and we do in salt her when we give up on her fight. in an instant, that instant she decided to become a revolutionary. she did that for me so i'd do this for her.

to date is about all of us. remembered today, those people who died in factories and farms working and slaving for others and in so doing building up other families riches and businesses that still exist today. businesses that our communities need to. remembers those thousands of entrepreneurs lynch and raped and jailed for daring to do with business owners are support tried to do. when i asked our young people to do, what some of you do. to set up shop in the community and expect to be valued and supported. take some time to imagine they have their thriving economic their affairs torch to the ground, looted because business owners and consumers alike have to be reminded violently and unambiguously that they do not

have the right to have nestle sustained community. today let's honor those torch towns too. let's go home and tell our children about those towns, think about it later tonight and later this week when you consider whether it is worth it to pay a little more or local little harder or drive a little farther to support the black businesses we do still have. tell your children, your friends dr. king the day before he was slain courage to support black businesses. dr. king wasn't fighting for economic empowerment, not just basic human rights, he was fighting for our businesses, not just the right to support everyone else's. don't businesses. is okay to say black and businesses in the same sentence. [applause] >> this is a quota won't here, all we have got to strengthen black institutions. i call upon you to take care

money out of the bank's downtown and deposit your money, we want to have a movement in memphis and do what we are doing. put your money is there. you have six or seven insurance companies in memphis. we want to have been a state that your insurance there. when thing, he says he died in memphis, he said this the day before he was ordered. number 2 he referenced six seven insurance companies in memphis in 1968. we don't have one in the whole country, not one property and casualty insurer. you can't find a public life insurance company doling out $10,000 funeral coverage but that is it. they are barely hanging on. health-insurance, please is the crumbling of our banks -- i am trying not to cry already. that is why you did but in no longer have a black base in

florida and all. you have one branch of a national black don't bring in miami on 79street. remembers this black history fact, unemployment in the black community was a measurable in places like tulsa, jacksonville and our historic system, our unemployment was nationally lower than that of whites all the way through 1940. i bet you did not know that. back family circulated in hundreds of millions of dollars in hotels, banks, hospitals systems, grocery stores, lawyers, bakers, hardware stores, department stores, steel mills, farming regions, it became clear like it was with jewish friends's struggle and people of color will do whatever they want to find a future of

culture in our communities, and social equality if we focus on our economic, not just political empowerment. dr. king news that, those who opposed him. another black history fact. 90% of the lynching of blacks that happened in jim crow were business owners. economic terrorism. that area called black wall street, called the negro barbecues. i know i have to do this, all the violent imagery and sad and horrifying facts. i have to give you this contest. so many believe that will come from a paradigm, it is love for those entrepreneur is, for the history they created and we so

easily dismissed the freedom fighters, every day revolutionaries fuel the passion and commitment to black businesses and neighborhoods now. i am asking you to include them and those business owners and families in their communities and the terrorism and discrimination they endured and the picture of racism, so many ascribes to me. envisions them, think of them, embrace them, bring them into this top story today. i think hmmm often. every storefront, every are in florida on the west side of chicago is an affront to them. each time we dismiss every business owner in the community because of the bad experience we had with one or two folks we engage, we did honor them, brave men trying to keep a store.

it can tumble down to the ground so being a farseeing and practical man, train your heart, your head and your hand, your face is here and not before. let down your bucket where you are. your faith is year end not far so let down your bucket where you are. six hours. that much we invest in our souls, our children, our neighborhood, six hours. live in two weeks. how much is in your bucket? that is how you impress me. six hours. that is where we are now after the struggle of terrorism and progress and prosperity, six hours. i think about our sister who is here today. she came to this conference for the first time ever just to

support me. this sister did not know me from a bulb of soup two months ago but she lives in south florida and she is a proud woman of color and volvo brenda is executive director of the national black mcdonnell's the owners' association international convention is in two weeks and she is the owner of 11 mcdonald's stores herself she couldn't find a better place to be an today with us. [applause] >> i have to tell you i would do that. i think of brenda and marianne's what i need to make sure there are 10,000 or brendas and 10,000 or marys. we're brenda and bernadette succeed, america succeeds. i poured it into my bucket, wake up in the morning and brush my teeth with natural toothpaste and i thank you, walgreen's, for

giving stewart and his family at chance to create jobs in chicago. i wake my girls up and get them going in the morning. i have some gourmet coffee that is local in chicago. his state of the art plant on chicago's outside. he takes flavors just for me. my favorite is cinnamon. it is a tall, strong, of coffee. the personal trainer puts on a weekend fitness champ free for kids on this outside to help them learn about fitness and health. i don't know how mr. folger looks, but they are no brand, and now you can order cyrus coffee on line but i prefer to pick my coffee up personally.

and the business owners in their community. i came by my processed alarm company. the alarm company does the same thing, motion detectors, pay for monitoring and call service, same thing, 40 bucks a month. other business owners to buy and revamp a strip mall and a pharmacy and asset, and my butt is halfway full, my pajamas and rollers are still on. i am not so depressed, overworked, and blackened businesses. where do i set my bucket down? that part is not as hard as you may think. and i spent one icahn. the mainstream businesses please

don't leave out. to enable my suppliers and media outlets and vendors. and i am still fly. and big girl cosmetics don't by kiley russell. she gives the girls a business agreement and believe in while so many thing, and in chicago on bullets to dodge. you can empower it too and those girls on the south side grow cosmetics available at macy's. they grow cosmetics at macy's. america succeeds when kiley russell succeeds. i am revolutionary, i am setting my bucket down and i am still flat. that is the message. my hair looks all right today.

one of the largest black women don't national products, it is an atlanta based business. you don't have to go to atlanta, you can get her products online or in walmart. our money is still safe, fdic insured, some of it is not that some of it is. i think about dr. king getting killed telling me to put my money in black own banks so i got to put a little bit, some of it in a black owned bank. the hard part for me is not finding these businesses. the hard part is getting my other successful black women to make sure they put a little money in a black owned the bank to try to make sure some of your money goes back to the community of our regular basis. that is the hard part, getting our leaders and celebrities to discuss this issue and ultimately proclaim supporting black businesses is right and

necessary to our community at survival. that is the hard part but not today -- i get a break because i am with the w. occ and by the time i am done with you we are going to line up and fills them up and assess our buckets down for these children who needs to seat brenda and bernadette's because they are right now limited by confining circumstances and reality that is relegated to our little girl, doomed them to inferior education environment and level of a scheme. i do that here and i do it over and over again and i bring that here especially to that little girl and economically deprived places she comes from the tells her she is not good enough to go to college, own a home. and she is black and destined to

enter generational poverty and that is how an unfair situation tells her she is not good enough and people are not good enough to build or maintain the businesses and neighborhoods that can support her if she did want to create an insurance agency or own a restaurant franchise or produce a hit television show. you know what i'm talking about. that is a little private joke. we have to do this for these little girls. i wouldn't have met jordan anywhere near where she lived had it not been the famous pledge. it is dilapidated, lots of crime and -- at children's clothing store in that neighborhood and she did with her mother, and

grandmother, and life savings. and they did not as much as j.c. penney, the most people children's store i had ever seen. and we came to visit. jordan was 7 when we were 3 and 4, she was a great sister to my daughter. saturday evening jordan's mom, my friend, and her grandmother would post a charm school and teach etiquette to the girls in the community for free. what a jam, perfect place to take my children and spend my money. jordan's profit is gone. the business, tea party, the families, hopes, revenue, taxes in the local school system for

that block or that other businesses will come and occupy storefronts and gained activities. we can talk all day long to believe that ourselves, work hard and she can get whatever she wants and looks out side and everyone tells her different. businesses like jordan come and go all the time mostly because we are not supporting them. we have got to showed jordan not just -- i don't want to just tell jordan, tell my own daughters they used to be able to go to the corner for ice-cream and candy who looks like them. what we used to have and what we used to be able to do. why would i tell my daughters they can have a children's clothing store when the one i took him to closed down in less than a year. why would i do that? because of dr. king?

harriet? we can't keep telling our kids to look backwards or read a book for inspiration. their inspiration is from the same place as mine, by watching intelligent people's courageous stand, dignified, daring people to deny or d 5. i don't want my girls to just see it at election time. i want my girls to see those lines for our businesses again. i want my girls to seek that kind of solidarity in our community. denied the first chance at a black president, show out anymore fails -- and economic power by jobs and education given holloway and a silver platter. we have to show our youth and the world that our business owners are just as important as any political leader, even the

president. we can't keep depending on our figureheads to restore our greatness. i have known him since 1995, i admire the of only black professor in chicago, i wrote to him that my boss coin. the black law students association, rainbow push on saturday it and training on sunday. i supported him when he helps people off the street with police profiling and predatory lenders, helped him run for illinois state office and when he tried to be a u.s. congressman the first time, when he decided to run for senate. organized fund-raisers and pass out fliers, got all the stickers, i will be sleeping in my obama pajamas tonight. our greatness is not in him. it is in our making sure as a

community that he could depend on a unified community like our businesses should be able to. in the 1930s chris restores are considered the largest category of black run enterprises. we had 6400 grocery stores in the united states of america. in the 21st century there were only 19 in the united states. our researchers could only find evidence of three to nine full service grocery stores. there are 48 hispanic grocery chains with 10 or more units. some of them had a hundred units. most fully propped up in the past 15 years. who is shopping at those stores, whose products -- who is getting jobs at those stores. who is getting set, hispanic consumers like me? so i shopped in my community, hispanic businesses and hispanic

children, nothing is wrong with that. it is great for them. my only point is we can do the same. with our landmark, in that study, don't leave me now, they proved close to $1 trillion in buying power may be 3% to the black community. all kind of advancing modeling, they prove families like ours, $75,000 or more, please stay with me, this part of the black community were to shift that spending from 3% to 10% we can reach it overnight, 3% to 10%, we solve our community problems, everything will be done. according to those researchers, if we were to do that, that is directly to our locally owned businesses, the local baker and regular spending going through a mainstream corporation that does business for the black business. if we could get to that 10% we

could create 1 million jobs. 1 million jobs in america. all of them created with money we already have and spend and businesses that already exist. if you don't do it for the freedom fighters, don't think it is worth it to recreate the great nestle already had, you won't do it for me because you are inspired by my family, you won't to enter jordan, if you are not on fire about the opportunity to create 1 million american jobs, do it just to prove all those who disrespect as and deny us -- the ceo asked about competition from blackstone firms and the black care industry, he said will nick newsweek 1986. in the next couple years black owned businesses will disappear. of the black businesses will be sold to white companies, and he

was right. carefree and a lovely, motions dark and natural. the brand is what people buy every day from a company they had. all that money for who knows where? i can tell you where it is not. it is not in derry or liberty city or baltimore. l'oreal is making a lot of commercials about people putting a lot of beautiful black people on the boxes but borealis not doing business with black businesses. they just added some diversity to their mission statement in 2011. all of you, all those billions and no black interest in that supply chain. best hijacked they did have one new supplier working with them. she used to work for l'oreal inc. that he is in france so we do have a french brother

representing the community at l'oreal. i learned this information and i switched. that is how i am a revolutionary. i used to buy dark and lovely and now live by lester. i by for the luster so i can still have them in the community. let's unite them, let's do that so that we can make mr. buckner hole, let's unite to make him through the day that he said black businesses can't last, black people don't care about the community or understand economic empowerment. can you do that or are they right? the six hours to tell the story, our statistics telling the truth

about black people? are they right when they tell me you can get this story on the front page of the renews paper in the world, get stories done by harvard, approve what can happen if people were to practice more economics but you know what they're going to do? and go back home and do nothing. they can't be right. have not saying black america or anyone else. i am saying we are america too. we are america too. we are america too. it feels good. say it again. we are america too. our hispanic brothers and friends, we are america too. our ancestors at elders said we

are america too, approved in and every time each and every one of the undead, america was made better. think about this. this is one of the things barack obama talked me about, every major chant of our democracy, every major chain of our democracy, our legal system, our constitution, the right to a fair trial, the right to vote, the right to free speech, philip randolph and jacksonville agencies came out of the african-american struggle. my president taught me is that. we did so much and contributed so much to this country, but now we gave them all away. you can help me with this too. when you court somebody for weeks to be a friend and send a flower, remember what that was like? you do all of that. when you get there is everything

you dreamed of. it leaves you hanging. it reminds me of this brother named chad. i need to apologize because i did the same thing with him. let's not get that far in demonstrating our greatest and let us go now. nothing will pass these events. you actually do something after the event, like the chance would have an stand up a little bit. maybe he would be there with me. he was sweet and cute and he was the bright man and had everything but he didn't step up and you too can step up or go home sad and mad. one more time. spending so much time building

up our lives and trying to help the community. you do have time to look for my friend's hot spot. is available in winn-dixie now. the university of chicago, he has to employ 20 people who wouldn't have jobs otherwise. how do i complain about the economic situation and not have been on my shelf? don't like anyone injured needs hot shots or you didn't blow up red hot like me. am i the only one who blindly bought it? was never asking and what has he ever done to black people? he said we are having fun here? who is right? what has you ever done for black people. let's ask the same question i did and he won't tell, not even wall street, how much money they make off of the african-american community but i did my own research.

60% of tendencies coming from the black community. over 60%. let me back up because i am here with a bunch of prestigious churchgoing folks from the bible belt in the united states of america. and an academic and give you some numbers to back up my premise. my women leaders in south florida, a cognac that has been joined by many people. and other black people. anyway, 60% to 80% of tendencies come from the black market. with their company therefore wholly dependent on the market to survive by the diversity program, and on the west side much less a corporate practice for vendors and might donate to a couple black groups, up and

national urban league, i have been there but not doing business with us. they are partying with us, they are not doing business with us and those parties don't do anything for our community. tennessee hospitals at home. every acc -- and funded by memorial. urban entrepreneurship, and teaching at it. [applause] >> have large accounts for tennessee black distributors and significant advertising in black don't immediately is that great? am i crazy? being unreasonable, and by a radical racist? i am asking too much, is this a waste of time on this saturday morning the july hope not. tennessee is thriving. not minority owners all-around world superthriving all in

private jets, salim b. on's birthday party, living live that our children can't conceive of and communities falling apart so no one asked about that and because we don't act, we don't talk, we don't take the time to look in and do one more story, wonderful black holes wine available throughout the country. and harvard nba selena and carry cup learned in 2005, south africa maintains a $3 billion wine industry, only 2% comes from black made wine. south africa almost 90% black. my wine co. is the largest company in the wine industry to trade and market afric at's black produced swan. 7 sisters wine, one of those brands. because of apartheid, sisters out of south africa were forced to leave south africa. they returned and filled their

dream to make wonderful wines. these wines are fantastic. we would never take these wind had it not been for our sister silly nick. my favorite southern sisters wind, i get it at a grocery store chain in chicago. i take as much as i can. i am doing this to help the sisters. i do it for selena. i got it -- i got one more so stay with me. kids have never gone to a black neighborhood or had dinner with a black person. they come to protest me. after they hear the truth and the data and our story they come to me with tears in their eyes begging for forgiveness and a list of black businesses. they are ready to do more. some of them see the correlation between high unemployment and

the flight of black businesses, at the jobs numbers came out and point out black unemployment is three times that and close the conversation like it makes any sense. to give my reaction of importance i was raised -- go up and i was going to say i tell you why black unemployment is so high. no one supported black businesses and black business of highest to support black people for corporations or consumers, and problems in america. she said this to me. thank you for teaching america a profiled lesson about where our money goes. thank you. and this is the story right after i didn't go up. they did have what an economist,

you know cnn has the best grass and it said black don't businesses get the least support of all american businesses and only 6% of black buying power goes to black businesses and to close the segment by saying this is why all americans need to do more to support black owned businesses. even fox news admitted black businesses are not treated fairly. publishers weekly said in my book it is dynamite and finally someone talked about this subject. c-span did a great story on our experiment and talked about a great paper co. that you should be supporting, office max and staples. the next day c-span and office max reported the numbers both of their phone numbers were flooded by people looking for that paper company. most of them were not black. they ran that segment over and

over again, at the same time the republican national convention people were looking at me instead of congressman ryan's acceptance speech. pbs news hour desegregated in chicago and declared as a fact after spending that they with us that black businesses even in black neighborhoods, a white economist called the growth of local black businesses the anderson effect. i m anderson, by the way. i don't tell you this to brag about to show you america is ready. america is ready to see our communities and howard, publicly supporting our businesses so that the country can benefit. i do think america is ready for this. how do we do this? how do we act on this?

and the q&a, you can find the great global businesses. and buying to support it. i think america is ready but i am not going to do it. i will ask you all ready. now i am ready to close. i know my time is short. montgomerie markets and ancestors had death threats and bombs going off terrorizing our kids but i will tell you something. they marched with 385 days straight. over a using their economic might to solve their social problems. none of those got back on the bus until they got the respect they deserve. are you marching? are you marching with me, with

bernadette, with edwards and marching with brenda. are you still writing comfortable but sitting in the bank. i remember the moment and i will close for real and i got to pay tribute to my mother here seriously. why this is so real to me. the in powering experiment, i wasn't going to do it because i found out my other -- my mother had cancer and she got diagnosed one month before launching our experiment and the only reason i am standing here today is she told me that i could not stop. he told me this would be the most important thing i would never do. are you crazy? how could this be the most important thing i ever did? they have an award named after me at madison junior high school but when it was open they had an award they gave every year, they gave it out to the most all-around student, best student

every year, named an award after me. the first chief of the award winning newspaper at the senior high school. i did all that stuff and i said aren't you satisfied? after these accomplishments i got a harvard brother from detroit and all these accolades. i work for all these wonderful people. argues satisfied yet? my mother said to me because she was one of those mothers i don't have many of those things. aren't you proud of me? you got me there. happened i found enough to accomplish? she said this to me. another one of those are some 1-liners and she said this to me. i am going to go out fighting. are you? i am asking you the same thing. i am going to go out fighting. are you? meanwhile just like our brother who came up here today, she never graduated from high school either but she was the most

brilliant woman i will ever know because she taught me that our speaking spanish and being cuban did not make us any less black that our brothers or sisters in jackson, mississippi. she taught us all it meant was we got blocked off all little earlier. [applause] >> we got to go. thank you also much. i hope you all buy the book today. i will be around all day. we need your support. thank you so much. i am sorry. >> i knew maggie anderson would be a tremendous hit with this audience. she is amazing. amazing. >> c-span2 providing live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and keep public policy events endeavour weekend booktv, for 15 years the only television network the voted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable-tv

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