dr. bryant.'re interested in the universal concerns of black people as well. we get cut out. women get cut out, we're segregated. we talk about the necessity for us coming together and yet we're the very ones who split those people off. let's just be concerned about justice and oppression wherever it falls and whoever it affects. >> dr. dyson is representing a middle class intellectual conversation that does not speak to the bread and butter issue that african-american community. the average black person in the hood is not saying that my issue or my priority is gay rights. it's about what it is that the urban league to say what's going to happen to these 100 hbcus getting ready to close? my son can't walk down the street, i can't get a job. what is our agenda? our immediate agenda is not the gay rights coalition. >> but the responsibility of leadership though. >> it's a craft of what's the priority? what is our priority? and our priority is education, economics and the family. and i think those n

dr. view, you make a good point. let me go back to mr. bryant for a second.eisenhower memorial is becoming increasingly controversial. in the process, it requires consensus and the concept of what is durable. can you make some observations that can help congress to improve its authorizing process in the future, based on the lessons we have learned from this controversy? >> it does encourage consensus. we as a commission have been concerned about the consensus. the eisenhower memorial application may have been before a several months ago but has been delayed. you are correct that part of the commemorative works that has us look at the very -- durability of commercial -- materials. how did these materials stand up and over the test of decades? the architects are continuing to work and test the materials to answer those questions. the last part of your question is, what can we learn from this process? how can it be improved? there has been a joint task force on memorials. that worked from 2000 to 2002 to answer or review that question. how can the process be con

dr. view, you make a good point. why was the adow on done before world war ii? let me go back to mr. bryant for a second. the design for the eisenhower memorial is becoming increasingly controversial. in the process, it requires consensus and the concept of what is durable. can you make some observations that can help congress to improve its authorizing process in the future, based on the lessons we have learned from this controversy? >> it does encourage consensus. we as a commission have been concerned about the consensus. the eisenhower memorial application may have been before a several months ago but has been delayed. you are correct that part of the commemorative works that has us look at the very -- durability of commercial -- materials. how did these materials stand up and over the test of decades? the architects are continuing to work and test the materials to answer those questions. the last part of your question is, what can we learn from this process? how can it be improved? there has been a joint task force on memorials. that worked from 2000 to 2002 to answer or review that question. how ca