marc morial to my right, but misseated i guess if we're being consistent. former mayor of baltimore and now the president. >> new orleans. >> new orleans, sorry, my mistake. >> like the baltimore of louisiana or something. >> let me just say, get used to it. it's not going to be the only one. new orleans, sorry marc. and but more importantly, for us, he's the president, ceo of the national urban league and under his guidance it's become one of the country's most respected effective, and influential national organizations. so thank you, marc, for joining us. now please help me in welcoming all of them. [ applause ] >> so ncrc is asking the question of whether our country has a continuing commitment to building an inclusive society which all people who are willing to work hard, play by the rules, regardless of gender, race, age, or physical challenges that we have the opportunity to build a safe and comfortable future for themselves and for their families. the pressing problems of massive debt, high unemployment and an people innic economic growth have increa

i would ask marc morial, what is the bigger message here? this case goes away and after everybody settles down, you know, we still have killings all over the country. young men and young women are being killed by their own people. we are not graduating folks through our school system. >> so what is the urban league's plan? i think that's a great question. obviously at some point this case will be decided. it may not be for a year. it may not go to trial. however it is, what is the step after that? >> i think in the context of this case, it raises a lot of larger questions and a lot of -- an opportunity to focus on some of the very important work. i think that the urban league and others are doing with after-school programs, with efforts for job training and advocacy that the nation needs to do more. one of my great concerns, soledad, is the culture of violence in the nation. it's black-on-black crime, yes. but this is also part of that cultural violence where people feel they need guns to protect themselves, where we see a person because of

also we have marc morial, who is from new orleans. [laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> more important for us, he is the president and ceo of the national rotor league, and he is one of the country's most respected and effective influential national organization. thank you very much. please join me in welcoming our panelists. ncsc is asking the question of whether our country has a continuing commitment to building inclusive society, which includes people who are willing to work hard, play by the rules, regardless of gender, race, age, or physical challenges. those who want to build a comfortable future for themselves and families. the problems of massive debt, high employment, and anemic economic growth have increasingly divided our country into the roaring political camp, if you may, between free-market capitalism and government solutions for economic progress. it distracts us from reaching real commonsense solutions to our biggest economic and social problems. let's consider how big is our challenge. medium wealth is declining rapid

four years or even eight years, even when we have got the national action network and we have got marc morial at the national urban league doing remarkable, remarkable work in partnership with all of you and all of us and mark, welcome. [applause] but i will tell you, even though change is hard, think about this, fair housing month, let's just take a moment and remember all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice because they knew change was hard. the ultimate sacrifice. let's remember them when we talk about change and change being hard. but i also know something else, that if you are marching backwards, it ain't nothing going to change. and that is the choice we have to make about the future of this country and this year. president obama's life and dedication demonstrates anything, we are not sure when or how change is going to come, but it will come. if we keep marching forward, together, it will change. that change will come. it will come because of the work that you do with this president, with me and with hud. i am going to keep marching. i'm going to keep coming back every year to vis

and to my home, marc morial who grew up around the corner. i see him as the head of the urban league but i also see him as a lapel mark. [laughter] back in his day, still the day, much respect are gone now i'm really glad to be with you all and it is what it is. you have heard from my administration colleague. i'm happy for the chance to speak to you about health and environmental protection and why it is so important for you as leaders in our communities and why it's so important for our president. first i want to talk a minute about what it means to be here in this moment in the midst of all these challenges and to be the author of this chapter in our history. you heard that i had the extraordinary opportunity to speak at brown chapel in selma, alabama. i was proud to join reverend sharpton and congressman john lewis and jesse jackson and so many others to remember and honor the bloody sunday bridge crossing that happened in 1965. i spoke that day as president obama often has, being a part of the joshua generation. in the bible, joshua took

marc morial to my right. for mayor of baltimore -- new orleans. >> get used to it.will not be the only one. more importantly, for us, the present ceo of the national urban league. under his guidance, they have become one of the most respected national organizations. thanks for joining us. please join me in welcoming all of them. [applause] ncrc is asking the question of whether our country has an ensuing commitment to build an inclusive society which all people who are willing to work hard, play by the rules, regardless of gender, race, age, or physical challenges, that we have the opportunity to build a safe and comfortable future for themselves and their family. the pressing problems of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth have increasingly divided our country into the warrant could -- political camps, if you make, to get the and this debate between the free market capitalism and government-driven solutions to our economic progress distract us from real common-sense solutions to our biggest economic and social problems? let's consider how de

[applause] >> marc morial. [applause] >> all right. we are going to it over now to our executive director as we move for our women's panel, i believe. get a hand to our executive director, tamika malory. let me emphasize that she comes tomorrow 11:00, that's what we're going to do the televised a breakdown all that we're doing, everybody be there, bring your children, la dee da and everybody. i got that from senator young who's in the back. he was ill, but he has risen like he said, larry young speak we will break we hear from our national action network coverage with remind you can see earlier coverage from this week in our video library. at c-span.org. tell you about other live coverage coming up today on the c-span know. i road to the white house coverage come a life coach continue today when mitt romney and did gingrich address the national rifle association. >> the pope has a very famous way of being determined to be dead, and that's what the camera linger which is a cardinal level post that the pope handpicks this person, this pe