african americans and the ratification of the united states charter in 1945 and 1946, where african-americans publicly anticipated that the ratification of that particular treaty with its human rights provisions defining a new world order, a major prong of american foreign policy of the time, the that treaty coupled with the supremacy clause of the american constitution, which makes trees the equivalent of federal statutes in domestic u.s. law, would in effect emerge as the first federal civil rights act under the treaty clause, if you will. there was great hope and do supported that hope. the third such event i would mention is the rise and the global recognition of martin luther king as an international human rights leader in the 1960's. and we can spell out the story. it is rather significant. and it has been undervalued and parallels the story of his greatness in the united states and weaves in and out of that story. the fourth event that i would select is the free south africa movement of the mid-1980's. here we had an african-american organized and led the american mass movement which c

>> guest: i am the african american. i teach african american history. because of my research on motown i teach a lot of courses on the history of american popular music. from this book, of course, i cannot teach about the history of death in america as well as the history of civil rights. >> host: when people walk into your class to the often expect an african american professor? >> guest: yes, they do, and it's one of the things i love about my job. allows uprising students. i love helping them to learn that the color of one's body does not define the body of knowledge that someone has, and i often tell students if i walked into the classroom and had taught chinese history i when asked the question as much. i notice as to somebody teach is medieval history, to you think it's a problem that we don't live in the middle ages. all learning should be about something that is beyond what you know. but i love. i have african-americans system at the end of my semester, one can of to me and said when i first met you are was so angry that you were white. i wanted

smith is the african-american we've def? >> the african american way of death is a way of thinking about death as not just deaf but connected to freedom and to the struggle for civil rights. in the book until the story about how the connection between def and freedom so essential to an african americans understand of funerals and deaths of that is it hasn't been considered in quite the way i do in the book before but it is essential to our understanding of the civil rights movement and also the history of african-american entrepreneurship. >> what is the story? >> it goes back to slavery and the african-american culture, they call a funeral home going, and in the book i trace the story beginning there and in the west african and transatlantic slave trade, african slaves who try to escapes often jump in the ship on the middle passage and the call it the home going because they believe their spirits would go back to africa, they literally go home so the home going concept began in the state delete the slave trade i begin their

i'm al williams, president of the board of the san francisco african-american historical society. welcoming you all to this annual 2011 kickoff program for black history month. first of all i'd like to say that the chairs to my right are vacant and will be filled shortly. the mayor will be arriving about 11:30. he had another engagement that he was they'd at. and supervisors -- he was delayed at. and supervisors -- no, that's not them -- miracle arim aye and coyne are in committee and i understand they will be finishing up shortly and then they will be joining us to bring greetings. i want to thank pastor curran and ms. suites for their participation in the program. and ms. suites with her wonderful voice, we use this program as an opportunity to present cameos of people who are otherwise engraged shall -- engaged in black history month programs and ms. suites is going to be appearing next tuesday, february 8 at yoshii's. and of course pastor is appearing weekly and a couple times sunday at jones united methodist church. so let's certainly visit and support her at jones united mem

the local chapter of that group is what is now known as the african-american cultural and historical society. so it's an honor. we've been doing this for many, many years and it's great to see so many faces out here today. right now what i'd like to do is thank our partners and acknowledge them for their participateation. the san francisco public library much the california cultural arts program and we couldn't do it without the good folks in the mayor's office of neighborhood services. what i'd like to do now is strue -- shall truce -- intro duce tanish hollins from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. >> good amp, family. happy black history month. could we hear it one more time? [applause] >> we are so honored to be here. we look forward to this every year. it's a hall mark event for the city and county of san francisco. an opportunity to reflect on the many, many contributions of african-americans in this city and how each of us has changed the gee graval and cultural landscape of this city. how fitting that we celebrate black history month today, which is also the same a

in this vacuum in japan town, there was the fillmore district with african americans and a variety of other people and they moved into the community. and then japanese americans get out of camp and they come back to their neighborhood that has been populated and made into a different life and different world and what happens when those two communities overlap and intersect? whose place is it, whose home is it? who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene hap

and may i remind you that this is not just a celebration for african-americans but for american and citizend this world. [ applause ] >> and no doubt today the world celebrates with us. today, our nation acknowledge its growth again, for this memorial represents the stair step beyond its laws of segregation. symbolizes that a black preacher, prophet from the south effected a social change that helped to redeem the soul of america. >> it is also important to not place too much emphasis on martin luther king the idol, but not enough emphasis on the ideals of martin luther king jr. [ applause ] >> so while we commemorate his memory today with this great memorial, let us not confuse nor forget what he stood for and died for. the young people around this nation organizing are very something, but let us not forget the ideals he gave up his life for, love, peace, equality, jobs, education, nonviolence, decent housing, and an end to war. >> reporter: just a lot of living history out here on the mall right now, candy. and once again, we're told the president of the united states now on his way over

we are, african americans, southerners. data shows we are increasingly, once again, southerners in the kind of reverse migration that has been happening in the last decade. va at history is my history, but when the confederate nostalgia emerges from governor mcdonnell, it propagates and profits to from a history that is recognizably alien to me. a narrative of virginia that laments the end of slavery, that itorist izes tra actions against the state and sedition. my problem with the confederate flag is not about racism. it just is not. i have seen the confederate flag flown in indiana. i s in the confederate flag flown in michigan. i guess in the confederate flag flown in upstate new york. i have seen the confederate flag flown in california and the kind of places that have nothing to do with the civil war in the context of being former confederate states. my problem with the rebel flag is that we have decided that it is an equally patriotic flag to fly as the american flag. the issue here is not about racism. the issue is a

here we had an african-american organized and led an american mass movement, which converted the struggle against south african apartheid into a domestic civil rights issue, and did a number of other major impacting of doctrinal outcomes with respect to american public policy. and lastly, in terms of the current day, where now african-americans have interest in international law and are beginning to invoke them, we can, if time permits, talk about the occasions -- implications of these international laws of african-americans and other minorities of color in the united states, regarding important issues of american pluralistic governance in this country. so now let me briefly go back to the first, back to the first event. the treaty of 1885, as i said, arrived at the very time that there was a debate about, or the last stage of the immigration, the african immigration debate, as the essential next step or not towards liberation of african-americans in the united states. and that treaty divided african-american leadership at the time. those leaders who, a group of leaders who favored immigr

by the time the over in the 1970s, half of all african-americans were living outside of the south. that's a massive relocation of an entire people. and so this is in some ways the universal human story of longing and fortitude and courage that is what, in some ways, made the country what it is. what these people did, though, had a different tone to it because these people were defecting a caste system that existed within our country, a system that controlled their every move. in some ways they were defecting and speaking political -- seeking political asylum from a world that's almost unimaginable to us today which is why i wanted to be able to understand what it was that they left and understand the magnitude of what they had done. these people were, in some ways, forced to become the only people in our country's history to have to leave the land of their birth and to go someplace within the borders of their own country just to be recognized as the citizens to which they had been born. so i want to say a little bit about some examples of the absurdity of the world that they were l

the slaves have the best the beginning of the african-american church.he only place they could reach for themselves to have sacred space. it becomes very important in that regard. and then it becomes controversial white slave masters begin to monitor the funerals because also of they can also plan rebellions the most notable is gabriels rebellion in some concern of the turner rebellion was planned at a funeral. even here and the cover of the virginia after the turner's rebellion slave laws were passed to say that they can no longer have funerals by themselves and they must be monitored it is evidence that the slave fuel losses eventually seen as threatening and then i trace it through the rest of the book through the civil war period and when it forms mainly from the general history of the book, i talked about the formation and the modern its funeral industry coming out of the civil war and the idea of embalming. >> host: how did it come out of the civil war? >> before that it was done in medical schools for the purpose of medical education not when you

i think, you know, if you look at african-americans and look down into the psychographic, african-americans are by in large socially conservative. we happen to agree with republicans on a number of conservative issues. you know, we're in church once, twice, some of us three times every week. so we're a faith-driven community. so to say that we won't consider conservative ideals is really just a misnomer. i think what we won't consider is a party that we see at least in my lifetime, and i was born in 1968, in my lifetime, hasn't been particularly in line with the kinds of values that would advance the african-american community rather socially, economically or otherwise. or open more opportunities for, you know, us as a community. i think that that is where the difference lies. it isn't necessarily in the brainwashing. we're doing the math. we're with those candidates and with those parties who we feel like invest in us in a short and long term. herman cain hasn't been a candidate who has shown empathy for that despite how he's come to growth in this nation and neither have the other candida

that document the story of the african-american community. it's called the -- called the kinsey collection, shared treasures of bernard and shirley kinsey, where art and history intersect. it's been on tour to six city as -- cities and opened at the national museum of american history at the smithsonian institute and we anticipate more than 2.5 million folks will visit that exhibit. how's that for success? terrific. their wonderful book it that documents the kinsey collection has been selected by the florida department of education for the curriculum to team african-american studies to 3.6 million students throughout the state. so that's also a wonderful accomplishment. it's indeed mip pleasure to welcome a man to waves a wonderful cultural narrative of a people. please, give a warm welcome to bernard kinsey. bernard? [applause] . >> first of all i want to make sure you can hear me. who has the sound in here? just bring it up a little bit so we can do this. first of all, luis, thank you so much to the san francisco public libraries, stewart,

why do so few african-americans vote republican? >> it is just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. >> at alabama anax the toughest immigration law in the country the political debate heats up. >> the reason states have to deal with this is because of the failure of the federal government. >> finally, boston red sox made baseball history with another aspect september fold. >> maybe the worst situation i have been involved in in my whole career. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- barack obama's top political adviser is in new hampshire to of course drum up support for the president's reelection effort. david axelrod told an audience of politicians and business leaders in manchester that the path to a second term would be a titanic struggle. and mitt romney, who longs to be the president appointed in 2012, agrees. >> the captain of the ship has been inattentive, otherwise occupied. [laughter] finally, most importantly, it is going to sink. >> i know it is early but with history

presented today as we learn about the devastation in the communities of color in the losses that african americans and asian-americans and hispanic americans are suffering at the end of this recession as many or as much as 65% of the equity and 65% of the wealth among asian-americans and african-americans and hispanic america has been lost in the last few years and much of that has been tied to lobby in the value of their homes were. and we imagining the quality of the explore the link between credit practices and failing and the feeling the economies of my grandparents' time. itt through the era of outright and hostile segregation through the era of redlining throughout which were women were confined to secondary roles inside and outside of the home. i look at restricted covenants and the role they played in shaping communities and even today when how the inigo and shadow over communities and urban area someone bloodworth i bring to a reverse redlining and targeting of women and people of color for subprimal and - loans that occurred in the height of the sub prime lending debacle. in doing so i e

let me specifically ask you about the african-american community. why is the republican party basically poison for so many african-americans? >> because many african-americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. i have received some of that same visbecause i'm running fore republican nomination as a conservative. so it's just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple. >> that's a strong word to talk about your fellow african-americans, brainwashed? >> for two-thirds of them, wolf, that is the case. now the good news is i happen to believe that a third to 50% of the black americans in this country, they are open minded. i meet them every day. they stop me in the airport. and so this whole notion that all black americans are necessarily going to stay and vote democrat, vote for obama, that is simply not true. more and more black americans are thinking for themselves and that's a good thing. >> you suggested, correct me if i'm wrong, that if you were the republican no

it's illuminating not only about the desire of african-americans, but the desires of all americans. and so in "reimagining equality" i write: a raisin in the sun not only illuminates the black person finding a place in the nation, but also how it surprises all americans' desire to belong. it is a story of race and gender and be a universal experience of believe anything a dream -- believing in a dream. hansbury's is a cautionary tale. a dream deferred doesn't just dry up like a raisin in the sun, but instead could just explode. moreover, the consequences of deferred dreams are not always immediate. they can extend decades into the future with consequences of generations to come. for over 50 years, audiences have focused on african-americans' clashes with the world outside their homes. her ability to see into the future of conflicts inside the home is just as compelling. hansbury advises us of the relationship between the problem outside and those conflicts inside. in the years since her play, i have come to fully appreciate how the two work together to enhance or to impede our chanc

african-americans vote on mass for the liberal party.the '60s and republicans became the party of the deep south, african-americans said, we don't want to be with that party. we're going with the other direction. >> how do you go about changing that? >> right. i think that joy-ann would. >> i'm just saying, how about you? >> i tell you what it really is, it's listening to the joy-anns of the world particularly over the last 50 years. our party has failed to fundamentally speak to those core issues that concern the black community. we are a party that founded and created affirmative action and yet we stand in opposition to it. we are a party that talks about empowerment and creates those avenues to well creation and it's perceived within the black community that we take steps to minimize that for african-americans. i think it's important that we begin to get in the face, if you will, of the community. and take the push back that we rightly should get about having walked away from the black community in the 1960s. >> joy-ann, does the over

much more important than an actual apology. >> i would argue with 50% youth unemployment in the african-americann community, 18% in the black community, higher among men, i wouldn't say that barack obama's policies have helped anybody in any community, but let me ask. >> it's a bit ludicrous to blame barack obama for the current situation that the entire african-american community is facing and that includes 1.4 african-americans who have been out of work for six months and an actual plan that he put on the the table to adjust those numbers i think is more important than an apology. >> let me bring up something here, reverend, that i think is important. i am tired, and we saw this most recently with herman cain. that is if you are an african-american, and you are conservative, you are excoriated. you are called horrific names, regularly, by the african-american community. why is that? >> well, you know, it's the confusion over our history, who did what, who was our ally, who was our enemy. as she says, a frivolous lawsuit, and apparently she hasn't even read the brief, so i don't know how she ca

believes that if you get america in the broad sense back working, it will have an impact on african-americansistorically, that's not the case. that's why white american unemployment is at 9.1 and african-american, kyra, if you want to know the truth, is probably closer to 20 plus. so, there's a disconnect between making and creating jobs for the general population and creating jobs and opportunity for african-american. that argues from my standpoint that somebody has to go an extra mile and i think the president and the congress both sides, i'm not picking on one or the other. they need to go the extra mile to increase opportunities for african-americans. >> will you vote for president obama? >> i sacertainly will do that. >> what do you think of herman cain? >> it's not so much herman cain. i know of him and i know of his background, but the thing that really says to me is the way the republican party is embracing herman cain. the conventional wisdom is that the republican party is negative to african-americans. i think it's great because my basic philosophy is, kyra, it's better for african

they represent the most unchurched group of african-americans since the plantations. we have to begin to ask questions about where is the church? eddy at prince university recently asked if the black church was dead because that institution that so contributed to moral virtue has been on the decline in terms of influencing that generation because home training was broad. it wasn't just at home. it was home and community. anybody at church could smack you and tell you to shut up, pull up the pants, and spit the gum out; right? those things are really important. thank you for that question. very good. >> i want to fuch on your -- follow-up on your point. my sister is black, adopted into our family, and is now 17. these questions have been forced in our family, these questions have been addressed long before now, but it's different because there's a draw in the hip hop culture. there's a rap sheet now. my sister's been involved in activities, and i won't get into the details of that other than to make the point to draw to the activities that are detrimental. it's hard to

why do so few african-americans vote republilican? >> it is j just brainwashining an people not being open-minded pure and simple. >> as alabamanacts the toughest immigration law in the country the political debat heats up. >> the reason why states have to deal with this is because of the failure of the pro-government. >> the boston red sox make baseball history with another epic september fold. >> this may be the wor situation i have ever been involved in my wlele career. captioneby the national captioning g institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> barack obama's top political adviser was in new hampshire to drum up support for the president's reelection effor david axelrod told an audience of new hamhire politicians and business leaders at a college in manchester that the path to a second term will be a titac struggle and mitt romney, longs to be the president's s opponents in 2012, agrees. >> the captain of the ship has been otherwise occupied for most of the voyage. and finally most and portly, it is going to sing. >> i know it is clearly

that led to a significant increase in african-american coaches and african-american gms, including thoseams to the super bowl. it shows that african-americans, when given an opportunity, can compete at the highest level. >> now, when the rooney rule came in, a lot of us who were around, people said it wouldn't work. but let me show you the graph of what you just said, bob, that we went from three in 2003 to eight by 2011. so it really more than doubled what the goal was in terms of -- well, it doubled the numbers. so the rlj rule is based on that for the private sector. >> based on that concept with one difference. in the nfl you get fined into the owners don't comply with the rooney rule. i'm asking corporations throughout this country to do it on a voluntary basis, what i call enhanced best practices. any company you talk to, they say they're committed to diversity inclusion. but it gets around the network that affects jobs at the vice president level and above. and i'm adding into this minority contractors. don't issue a new contract unless you interview at least one or two qualified

he is saying his values and where he stands is in line with a lot of african-american voters.t i mean by a let, who knows. this is a point that larry elder is making. >> african-american conservatives and those in line have been saying that for years. there is truth to that. we are talking about social values and social issues. that is separate from political issues and values. going back 60 years with all the social conservatism of african-americans and many of the columnists which is true. at the same time during the decades, we have seen consistently african-americans by 80 to 85 and with president obama and bill clinton, 90% voting democratic. vote are for democrats up to and including the president. what would make anyone think that's going to change? >> because people believe that black voters vote because they are black. >>> are that's nonsense, but what people choose to assume. >> some people choose to believe that and some people clues to believe in santa claus. they vote their interest and that's not going to change in 2012. dream on. >> thank you very much. greatly

and we talked about african-americans and african-american leaders criticizing the president.l.a. for the trial of michael jackson. the first thing joe jackson said to me is like, why are you getting on president obama? why are you going after president obama? i said, i'm a reporter, i'm not an advocate, i'm just doing the report. what the does that say? does that prove the point that it's difficult to criticize an african-american president? >> we are the kind of people who will circle the wagons no matter what the criticism is, whether it's valid or not valid, and you'll see a lot more of that play out as this election wears on. >> it's amazing. just amazing to me, because people, i think, forget that we are not advocates, we are journalists and we have to report on the news. thank you so much, goldie. always a great conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> appreciate it. >>> a new book casts a shadow on walter payton, one of the greatest football players ever to play the game. you'll hear from the author straight ahead. ♪ here's where we deliver steady income - month after

community and many lib rap african-americans criticism conservative african-americans saying they areomehow abandoning their community. >> one of the best-kept secrets in america is that many black people are very conservative. i'm the from the south and a lot of people in my family want to like herman cain. some of his values are in perfect alignment with their own. i think what mr. cain might want to pick up on is this simple word called dignytism you have to run your campaign with dignity. you can't make ridiculous statements one after another and allow people to use you as a racial fire ball. colin powell was a conservative also. many people loved and respected colin powell. to this day, many people respect him. i know i do. there's a big difference between a way a conservative like colin powell would run a presidential campaign versus herman cain. this idea of gimmicks and turning yourself in to a black male sarah palin or a black male rush limbaugh, that might be great for selling books or getting a radio show, but it's not what people will look for in a commander in chief. i wo

african-american voters gave barack obama 25 or 26% of all his votes. the question is, are they going to come out and as they did and be 13% of the electorate, or will it drop off a little bit and percentage go to 90%, which that case would be -- >> okay, hold on! >> make any kind of difference. >> running against him makes a big >>> he does not have my vote. >> latino political activist armando navarro voted for president obama in 2008. but he will not vote for him in 2012. miss his frustration has trainingled down to the latino population at large. why? item, immigration. the president promised to make immigration reform, that is a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, a priority in his first year. mr. obama has completed nearly three years in office and no path. item, unemployment. the overall u.s. unemployment rate is 9.1%. the u.s. latino unemployment rate is 11.3%. item, poverty. the overall poverty rate is 15%. the latino poverty rate is 25%. item, youth poverty. there are more latinos under 18 living in poverty than any otherth nick group.

do not tell me that there are no good african-american doctors. my grandson became a doctor. there is nothing there to stop him -- he is supposed to graduate in april. [laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause] >> you have said what families need to do. as a person in school, we know how much of our children's time is spent in school. we are often the surrogate parents for a length of time, so we have a particular responsibility in schools to get some of this truth out. i just want to throw this out for black history month. we need to ask ourselves, what information is being shared that is worthwhile, that will help young african-americans, and others, understand t

and reconstruction legacy for black voting and how it's critical to understand contemporary african-americand electoral behavior within the context that goes back to reconstruction and finally the fourth, the lingering racial anxiety of the american south define themselves into broader american political culture which is of course also connected with confederate nest of shy in general. so let's start with structure. the to immediate precursors of the civil war has the issue of slavery squarely within federalism. it is impossible to suggest the civil war is only about one of these issues. this obviously tall times both about the question of the intergenerational human bondage and about the relative autonomy of the american states relative to the national government. the to the brink of the final decade of stress that break apart the union for the fugitive slave act of 1850 which allowed them to pursue the formerly enslaved women, men and children into the free states and return them to servitude and the second is the compromise of 1850 that allows territories to enter the union as sleeves or

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santa fe is predominantly african american. the other is predominantly hispanic. >> belva: there is an election coming up. they will be soon going to the polls i suppose. not that soon. and they'll have to choose a d.a. >> right. it is an interesting race to see what's going on. there is an incumbent district attorney who was never elected. in fact, one of the last acts of the now lieutenant governor said i am going to pull you from being police chief and making you the district attorney. the reason that job was open is because harris who is now the state attorney general moved on and they had a vacancy to fill. a lot of these checker games going on of who's filling this. not necessarily a shoe in, although he is definitely a front runner. there are four other challenges, fairly serious of them. david onick is one of them. used to be a police commissioner in san francisco who is also an attorney. never prosecuted a case before. bill fazio, a perennial candidate for the district attorney's job. he was a long-time prosecutor in t