. >> we have to look at the best ways to bring about prosperity in black america.the mantra of bigger government and more taxation and increased bureaucracy has not given us the results we're looking for. therefore it's prudent for us as african-americans to look for the best resolutions possible and perhaps there are solutions that we feel, we feel confident in, that the republican party offers when implemented properly will bring about better iscation for our communities, et set ta ra. >> why would black people make this choice as opposed to using the same arguments in the democratic party it? >> i wasn't always a republican. my parents came from haiti and they identified with the democratic party because they were told that's what black and working-class people do. what's sort of converted me, if you will, after i began working in the inner city as a school counselor and witnessed how a lot of democratic policies purported to help black people to their detriment, that's when i sort of reevaluated my allegiance. >> arm strong, you identify as a conservative but d

he's the author of "getting it wrong: how black intellectuals are failing black america and achieving blackness." race, black nationalism, and centralism in the 20th century. he has published scholarly articles in ethic, racial studies, qualitative sociology, race, gender, and class. please welcome him with a round of applause. our next panelist will be dr.

african-american community is needed deep in an economic nightmare there is no question that that black america is worse off than it has been at least the last thirty years. the official unemployment rate for african-americans has been hovering at around sixteen percent for the last year more than the high unemployment number one. and home foreclosures in the mornin populating the prisons of our country. many say if these numbers represented any other minority group us would be in a state of emergency has long been high time for a rescue operation for african-americans a particularly poignant question. now with a black president in the white house new york's harlem neighborhood is one of the places that celebrated the most when barack obama stepped into the white house for two years into the presidency the cracks in the dream for life have become too wide to hide extreme unemployment with resulting poverty has created a pandemic of millions who need to be helped with in black america has been a. nightmare looking for work study say a year ago one in six african-americans were without jobs. toda

was clear one group was the abandoned non-middle-class black america.and then the other groups were you know, i did think that the distance of a small but very powerfully powerful elite was something new and so i call that the transcendent group and that i needed a category to deal with other groups that didn't fit the other categories like immigrants for example from the caribbean and africa, and also bi-racial americans. and i thought they would kind of fit into an umbrella group called the emergence so that is how i got two for. >> yes i noticed that you put new immigrants and bi-racial people together. and you are comfortable with that, grouping them under the same umbrella. >> well, i was mostly comfortable without. it was not precise, and it didn't make for as clean a category as the other categories. however, i thought some similarities were -- this concept of emergence -- groups that were becoming more prominent that hadn't been around anymore in numbers at the fore as as at least acknowledge and those numbers before and i thought were going to

at the national press club talking to eugene robinson about "disintegration: the splintering of black america." can you explain this? >> it seemed to work out that way. for an arbitrary number, it was clear this was -- one group was the mainstream of the middle class back america. it was clear that one group was the abandoned nonmiddle class black america. and the other groups were, you know, i did think that the existence of a small but very powerful elite was something new. and so i called that the transcending group. then i needed a category to deal with the other groups that didn't fit the category. immigrants from the caribbean and africa. also by racial americans. and i thought they would fit into the umbrella group called the emerging. that's how i got up to four. >> i noticed that you put new immigrants and biracial people together. you were comfortable grouping them under the same umbrella? >> well, i was mostly comfortable with that. it was not precise. it didn't make for as clean of a category as the other categories. however, i thought that similarities were the concept of emergin

much about the complicated relationship of white america and also with the complicated history of black america it is more superficial there is a real history there so i have noticed dr. cobb has experienced this but when you are a minority or a woman or statistically the majority but in terms of power, minority, you are undoubtedly compared to other minorities particularly in your field for i have probably been on television a hundred times i either get confused with another black woman on television or they say i prefer you to fill in the blank and it was another black woman. okay you put me in the same category as james carville? when they you did a great job is complicated relationship with the men he has been compared to so to start by asking edward, you wrote about the deceit. can you talk about that and also his relationship today? >> when i was elected the first time i encountered obama december 1999 a staff writer for the chicago reader and my editor who is now in new york who i saw last night set me down to the sell side and he just lost the race against mayor daley. >> so just a litt

there is the united states of america. ( cheers and applause ) there is not a black america. and a white mirk. and latino america, and asian america. there's the united states of america. >> the fact is that the comment that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through. a parent of our union that we have not yet made perfect. and if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respecve corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care or education or the need to find good jobs for every american. >> rose: president obama came to the podium tonight after others from the university community and elsewhere had spoken. the president remembered the victims. >> there is nothing i can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your heart. but know this-- the hopes of a nation are here tonight. we mourn with you for the fall fallen. we join you in your grief. >> rose: he spoke of congresswoman giffords. >> a few minutes after we lef

a complicated history with black america which is much more long and drawn-out than superficial what we saw in the campaign trail. there is a real history there. one thing this leads me to asking is i am sure dr. cobb has experienced this, with you are a minority, a woman, in terms of power we are minorities, where you are african-american, you are undoubtedly compared to other minorities particularly in your field. it never ceases to amaze me how i run into someone who confuses me with another black woman i look nothing like or who will say i actually prefer you to some other black woman. i am trying to hang with james carville. can't you put me in the same category as him? one thing you did a great job talking about is complicated relationships with some of the men you have been compared to. you wrote about the hands of bobby rush. can you talk about that? and his relationship today. >> that was the first time i encountered obama. it was december of 1999. i was staff writer for the chicago reader and my editor who i saw last night send me to the south side to cover bobby rush's cam

america. because of the hatred against the black people of america.hat made him a hero as martin luther king jr. was. they knew that they were coming in line with hatred that been around for hundreds of years. thank god that martin luther king gave his life for this. president obama stood in with all of this hatred thrown towards him. not because he was a democrat, but because of his color. host: we will leave it there. we have just gotten this item from "the associated press." minister, it is not clear whether he will be supported in the government." los angeles, independent line, you are on "washington journal." who most embodies the legacy of martin luther king? caller: i think dr. congressman ron paul. host: why is that? caller: he is always advocating for competition, standing for the freedom of the american people. multiple politicians do not stand for the people. host: let's move on to battleground, washington. john, good morning. caller: i do not see anyone to they that matches his character. he transcended white, black -- to me he spoke the t

black caucus. congratulations, emanuel cleaver. america will be a better place. party, and of our congress and of this country because of your leadership. may god bless you, as you bless america through your leadership and to each and every one of you, who has overcome discrimination, rejection, racism, and so much more, to emerge as positive leaders of principle in this land of the free, and home of the brave, god bless you. and thank you. thank you all. [applause] >> before we proceed let me introduce the surgeon general of the united states, dr. benjamin. [applause] >> thank you for joining us, and let me just introduce and present my wife, diane, and my father who has been my father all of my life. and i say that because that, there is meaning in that. has never been a time when i didn't have a father. thank you for being here, to my entire family, my friends, thank you for being here. [applause] >> and our with, until 12 noon, they had a prayer meeting earlier today, and he was there praying for me. [laughter] thank you, mr. with -- mr. witt. this is truly a

they found that if white people were mistreated the way black people were, the rest of america paid attentionys they didn't when the black people were, so they asked for some volunteers. a couple hundred of us went down. then i went back to graduate school and realized i didn't have the temperament to be a professor. i have a very short attention span. a short attention span is an asset if you're in politics, because you have to switch gears all the time. a short attention span is not helpful in writing a ph.d. thesis. (autumn) out of the years you've been working in politics, what do you consider your biggest successes and what do-- there's no way to talk about that without sounding very boastful, so i can't do that. [laughter] (liz) so what was it that got you into politics in the first place. i don't know. how do you know that? by high school, politics had interested me, and i knew i wanted to be involved. but i never thought i could ever be elected myself. first, because i'm jewish. when i graduated from high school in 1957, anti-semitism was a factor in my career choices. but i'm also ga

black caucus. congratulations emanual cleaver. america will be a better place. congressional black caucus is stronger part of our country, our congress, and this country because of your leadership. may god bless you as you bless america through your leadership. and to each and every one of you, who has overcome discrimination, rejection, racism, and so much more to emerge as positive leaders of principle in this land of the free and home of the brave, god bless you, and thank you. thank you all. [applause] >> before we proceed let me introduce the surgeon general of the united states, dr. benjamin. [applause] thank you for joining us. and let me just introduce and present my wife die ann and my father who has been my father all of my life and i say that because there is meaning in that. there's never been a time when i didn't have a father. thank you for being here. for my entire family, my friends. thank you for being here. and our whip until stk noon, they had a prayer meeting earlier today and he was there praying for me. thank you mr. whip. this is truly a gr

looks back in wonder and my last book was sort of a polemic about what's going on in terms of black america called enough. so i think i'm going to stop that there. i will mention that i've been involved in some controversies. steve touched on it about being fired from national public radio for comments i made on a fox show, "the o'reilly factor" about muslims and if i see people dressed in muslim garb getting on a plane and i was told i violated journalistic standards by revealing that feeling and i think it was unjustified but nonetheless it led to my firing and it had tremendous repercussions not only in terms of my life and my career but in terms of national public radio. so i think having said that, steve, i think it's a good time to open the door to interaction and to say that i'm hoping that all of will have great success and i hope we use this period to answer questions that are on your mind about what it is to practice journalism in washington here at the start of the 21st century. [applause] >> if you have a question, go ahead. there's a microphone. >> go ahead. >> i'm ryan from th

eleven am here in marina joshie welcome to the program of ghana state is turning into a black hole for america's finances experts say it's sucking in billions of dollars dollars the u.s. simply can't afford and what's worse it's not clear exactly words all going to use this is your reports. money money money money money money money money money money money money coming up with money must be the easiest thing for the u.s. says washington is the fuse we hate with it being flushed down the drain. one big dream it's been washing down is that get a stamp about three hundred seventy five billion dollars has already been spent on the afghan war this doesn't include basic things like like care for soldiers in the future of what this amount also doesn't include is the cash that simply goes missing into the abyss from never completed ghost construction projects to arms that end up in the wrong hands billions of dollars talked to us into afghanistan don't end up where intended there's a significant portion for since reconstruction money that actually comes back doesn't ever make it to afghanistan it goes in

he's the author of "getting it wrong: how black intellectuals are failing black america and achieving blackness." race, black nationalism, and centralism in the 20th century. he has published scholarly articles in ethic, racial studies, qualitative sociology, race, gender, and class. please welcome him with a round of applause. our next panelist will be dr. william derty. he's professor of studies and professor of african and african-american studies in economics at duke university. previously, he served as director of the institute of african-american research, director of the moore undergraduate research apprenticeship program at the university of north carolina. his most recent books are economics, economist, and expectations. microfoundations to macroapplications. and a volume called "edited" entitled "boundaries of clan and color: transnational comparisons of inner group disparity 2003." both published by rutledge. give him a round of applause also. welcome him. and, of course, our final panelist will be ms. donna simms wilson. in january of 2011, ms. simms wilson joined the firm

he's the author of "getting it wrong: how black intellectuals are failing black america and achieving blackness." race, black nationalism, and centralism in the 20th century. he has published scholarly articles in ethic, racial studies, qualitative sociology, race, gender, and class. please welcome him with a round of applause. our next panelist will be dr. william derty. he's professor of studies and professor of african and african-american studies in economics at duke university. previously, he served as director of the institute of african-american research, director of the moore undergraduate research apprenticeship program at the university of north carolina. his most recent books are economics, economist, and expectations. microfoundations to macroapplications. and a volume called "edited" entitled "boundaries of clan and color: transnational comparisons of inner group disparity 2003." both published by rutledge. give him a round of applause also. welcome him. and, of course, our final panelist will be ms. donna simms wilson. in january of 2011, ms. simms wilson joined the firm

the black man. america is a hypocritical country that should be ashamed of itself. and we started that war and detained as prisoners, but the concern to me is the black man in america. number one unemployed, number one in the present, can go to jail at the drop of the hat with no excuse, no rhyme or reason. guest: that raises an interesting point. president obama will get hit -- give his state of the union on tuesday. people will be more concerned about what is happening in the u.s. regarding our justice system, unemployment, the economy than what is going on in the guantanamo bay which probably will let even deserve a mention in the state of the union. this is a symbol for obama foreign policy and how it has not been able to achieve their highly idealistic goals. on the other hand, this will not determine who wins the election. host: off of twitter, if you try people and found innocent but not released, how is that a fair trial?" guest: it is not. it is unclear how they would be released. ok, you find someone innocent in a military commission, will they be released

back and wonder, and my last book which was sort of a polemic about what's going on in terms of black americacalled enough. as we think i'm going to stop there. i will mention i've been involved in some controversy. steve touched on it, about being fired from the national public radio for comments i made on the fox news show, the only factor, about muslims and about the anxiety that i feel in airports if i see people dressed in muslim garb getting on a plane, and aarsele had violated journalistic standards by revealing that feeling, and i think it was unjustified but nonetheless it led to my firing and it has had a tremendous repercussions not only in terms of my life and my career but in terms of national public radio. so i think having said that to you, i think it's a good time to open the door to interaction and to say that i'm hoping the all of you will have great success, and i hope we use this period to answer questions on your mind about what it is to practice journalism and in washington here at the start 21st century. [applause] ÷ if you have a question go to the microphone. >> go

black enterprise." i'm mark lamont hill. on today's show, he's taking on the toughest job in the free world -- hollywood favorite, blair underwood becomes president, at least on tv. >>> plus, gay in america, how tolerant is the black community? >>> and, is breast cancer awareness month, this disease is a hidden menace for men. but we'll meet a survivor who fought back. >>> that's what's going on in "our world" starting now. ♪ >>> playing the president. blair underwood shares the inside information he learned from the real commander-in-chief. and his secret for keeping his star bright in hollywood. you have made a career of challenging what it means to be black in hollywood. black in the world, i mean you have been jesus. >> exactly. >> now you're the president. >> now i'm the president. >> tell us about the new season of "the event." >> mark, i'm so excited about this. it is called "the event." it's a high-octane, conspiracy thiler type shthriller, ala "24" >> we have an african-american president already. >> right. >> does it mean, what kind of significance do you see being an african-american on screen while we have one in d.c.? >> good question. well first of all, the significance is

about the same number say it won't happen in their lifetime. 11% of blacks and 5% of whites say americawas conducted by telephone over four days last week. more than 1,000 people were in the random national sampling. >>> in san jose today hundreds of people packed the convention center for the annual dr. martin luther king silicon valley luncheon. mayor chuck reed recognized volunteers from the black community for its outstanding contributions to san jose. the group was singled out for his roll in setting up the new africa cultural center of silicon valley. [ singing ]. >> and this was the scene today many people celebrating dr. king's holiday by riding the freedom train from san jose to san fransisco. it's a 26-year tradition intended to remind people of dr. king's message of civil rights and equality. as they rode, many sang old spirituals and said the message should never be forgotten. the train continued from san jose to san fransisco for a long day of celebration with thousands of people turning out. . >>> a couple live bird checks out there this evening. first from the golden gate

longman jail was it just odd teeth in the well being it was pretty much just like jails in america playing them said black there was a lot of bouncing in this prison a lot of stuff people would be pretty dire situation. a group of the inmates got together and we decided a. good excuse for this place. what happened was is that the result was alone would be. costly. that it did break down the jail and it was just made. by the people get killed. i'm so badly so. i was going to survive the metal would get ready to come to the deceased and. you know when you're laying on your back that you can't move for doing in a day out you have a lot of time to think sue and think about what you did you know what you've done and things that you've done to the people that you queue people that have made i mean there's always something that reminds you. that you don't hear. things that you see then. you actually see what i saw what was going on in the states. do to ryan down the streets and i'm wearing the same kind of uniform that i got there in memphis there that they've beaten up on people. who made it we will be here bea

my last book was sort of a polemic about what is going on in terms of black america. i think i am going to stop there. i will mention that i have been involved in some controversies. steve touched on about being fired from national public radio for comments i made on a fox news show about muslims and about anxiety that i feel in airports if i see people who are dressed in a muslim garb getting on a plane. i was told that i had violated journalistic standards by revealing that feeling, and i think it was unjustified, but nonetheless it led to my firing and has had tremendous repercussions, not only in terms of my life and my career but in terms of national public radio. i think having said that, i think it is a good time to open the door to interaction. i hope that all of you will have great success, and i hope that we use this time to answer questions that are on your mind about what it is to practice journalism in washington here at the start of the 21st century. [applause] ÷ if you have a question go to the microphone. >> having interviewed a bunch of different pr

real america versus berkeley and washington, d.c., christians versus secularists, freedom-loving patriots versus despotic marxists, moose berger appreciate yea to haves versus arugula munchers, blackdicals, militant homosexuals and subversive illegals. once upon a time in america, there were genuine radical progress is who pitted the working class against the robber barons. such people are hard to find these days. radical conservatives have supplanted them. for almost 40 years the right wing has been developing a new class consciousness. the new class is not dominated by income, it is vaguely circumscribed by a black cloud of hysteria that right-wing leaders have composed from bits of race, religion, ideology, education, geography and culture. each year it seeps deeper into the nation's bones. it will not be easy to excise this cancer. [applause] thank you very much. we'll now do some questions, i guess, followed by the signing. and afterwards if anyone wants to join us, there's a bar at amsterdam and 84th, george healey. we'll be going there for a drink afterwards. i hope everyone can come. so maybe some questions? yes. >> didn't theodore roosevelt run as a progressive? >> yes. a

america. next days a black magic marker keyser as he's currently states but discuss the remaining government a new fortune teller which is alongside all the all the latest financial news that's coming up next. my stature this is the kaiser report. i put a hex on you so about which is stacy ever tell me more max romania's which is curse income tax ruling so because of the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking systems and g.d.p.'s around the world romania's government has started taxing witches and fortune tellers from the first of january this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought turbo is furious about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog this is her reasoning for it we do harm to those who harm us they want to take the country out of the crisis using us they should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it i might add they brought us into it the global banking cartel through what could be called just as wacky as usin

black babies. those pictures were streaming out to america prior to the march on washington. but lest we forget, and i will give you a chance to unpacked this for us, i think the sense that many people have is that martin king shows up in washington and makes a great speech, we passed the civil rights act, and it is all good, and a story. but when you look at the through line of black history, you get reminded that the 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham happens after. >> you know what i said to dr. king? you know what i said to dr. king when that bombing occurred on september 15, 1963? what i said to him -- that was a planned answer to the march. i was wondering what the response was going to be. >> not even a full month later. >> and of course the day after the march, there were some internal memos which we have now been able to see under the freedom of information act, in which the fbi sends a memo to john f. kennedy in which, in effect, they say, "as a result of what happened yesterday -- meaning the march on washington -- martin luther king is the most dange

black radio was disco. and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blow. that's correct, and he made christmas rap in 1979, and i remember that when the record came out, it was successful in amsterdam, and he and i got on a plane-- and i had never been on a plane-- and went to amsterdam, and the record execs took us out and bought us drugs, and it was like-- it was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. i was thrill

i've always teased you about the fact that many studies show that half of the muslims in america are blackor african-american, but when white america looks at any of the current athletes or with islamic names, some of them do it for personal reasons, others, you know, are muslims. america doesn't see them in the same category as we talk about on the panel today. they don't see them as terrorist, but black folks or whatever they are in terms of their religion, they see them as athletes and so forth. there's an ethnic dimension that we totally missed today that makes this problem and this question much more complicated, even as complicated as it is. i didn't want to solve it, but throw it out there. >> one thing i'll add on civic engagement is that part of the power is it allows muslim communities to tell an affirmative story of who they are, and so they are talking out, talking about an acting out, what it means to be muslim, and not always talking about what islam isn't. they are in other communities and acting in a way in which they believe is inspired by their faith and living out what i

i've always teased you about the fact that many studies show that half of the muslims in america are blackor african-american, but when white america looks at any of the current athletes or with islamic names, some of them do it for personal reasons, others, you know, are muslims. america doesn't see them in the same category as we talk about on the panel today. they don't see them as terrorist, but black folks or whatever they are in terms of their religion, they see them as athletes and so forth. there's an ethnic dimension that we totally missed today that makes this problem and this question much more complicated, even as complicated as it is. i didn't want to solve it, but throw it out there. >> one thing i'll add on civic engagement is that part of the power is it allows muslim communities to tell an affirmative story of who they are, and so they are talking out, talking about an acting out, what it means to be muslim, and not always talking about what islam isn't. they are in other communities and acting in a way in which they believe is inspired by their faith and living out what i

that was introduced so that black kids in america and everyone else that was not a slave in this country -- i am a black native american, which is not recognized. then you talk about 9/11. 3000 people killed. all of a sudden, the country goes crazy. as far as the president goes, when it comes to money, i do not see anybody in his cabinet dealing with the financial discourse in this country. host: you have brought up a lot of issues. guest: you are talking about the unfinished business of america. it is important that we not sweep race under the rug, because there is business yet to be completed. again, going back to members of congress, members of the congressional black caucus, we need to show how this national dialogue on race -- which we must have -- is extremely important. we need to move forward to address many of the issues that have been swept under the rug. i can cite the economic disparities, how financial institutions targeted minority communities. when you look at the huge educational gap in our country in terms of resources, where those resources go. you look at health care d