african-americans felt a burst of opt mitch. he stood up and in their eyes scored at least a symbolic victory, so many felt like a step had been taken. they would shortly thereafter be very disappointed. but at least after a month or two after trotter and wilson eats meeting they felt optimistic. he would stand up on the stage and when he would stand up on the stage people would go crazy and clap for five or 10 minutes at a time. trotter would have to wait for them to calm down. they would pound their fists and stomp their feet and wherever trotter would describe his meeting with wilson, they were overjoyed and just possessed just yelling and saying amen and yes and tell the truth, and clapping. sounded like the roof was just going to explode off the church. and whenever trotter would mention wilson's name they would his and boo and talk about slowing him out of the white house and that. so these meetings were -- i'm not sure if aggressive was a good word but energetic. it was just an energetic atmosphere. very dynamic. now, was

you're african american, it's like, okay, and then what? so what am i supposed to do with that information? you know, where do i go with that? i'm a minority, it's not like we're not -- we're clearly not going to have an armed revolution to seize any power. so what, then? you're telling me this, but what am i then supposed to do? it's terrifying, it's terrifying all around and it's not even terrifying because we're americans. i think if i spent any amount of time in any country, all countries have sins in their past and getting states to confront those sins honestly and directly is really, really hard. the one example that people often put up is germany. they say, well germany was really able to confront its past. the difference is germany killed off 80-90% of the jews who lived there. so they didn't have jews alive as active political actors to use that history. it's very easy, you know, to apologize for something when there's no one there to draw any directly from you, in your country, to be part of your politics. it's fine to apologize a

families have an impact on the education of the african-american students as we're slowly or quicklyuit frankly how quickly we're losing african-americans students in our district but also in losing them in san francisco i think the question also the city side is are we and with our school district is the lack of the critical mass of african-american families addressing to some of the challenges that we have and if it is what are reprepared to do about it as a city and as a school district, too, and we talk about the boldness i think when you talk about the bold conversations it's about what happens when a whole ethnic group is being pushed out of a city and what impacts that has over the ones remaining and the academic achievements of the city. >> thank you if there's no further comment we'll move into the agenda consent calendar resolution removed at the previous meeting second reading o is vote on the consent calendar will be followed by p which is the discussion of the resolutions that were severed so vote on the consent calendar it was seconded and moved under section f. >> ms.

the desire to have the african-american achievement initiative be a standing item on our curriculum agenda this year we hope this comes along with the full board those conversation took place and you know for the public and others under recent a process in the african-american design team that looked at the issues and a lot of representations that cute which that we intend to explorer fully many of the things the superintendent talked about many new things we want to see explored bigger around the intent nationality and all the things the instructor spoke about i hope 9 recommendations and fuftd recommendations we're starting that process are central to this initiative especially our role and want to thank you know there was an e-mail that went out about a special assistant and i see the miller that would intentional so the bp o miller is here and the city's commitment it has to be cooperated you know a comprehensive effort that brings out a accented approach the tremendous potential for the people ♪ city one question what is the structure to the extent mr. and mrs. or there's one a citize

why are they down in the african-american community? because black folks have been jairchged yanked out of this town based on public policy [inaudible] let me make my point. >> thank you. >> you yanked us out of here so there is no need for us to play the numbers game. still the quality of life for african-americans in this town sucks. i just left -- >> thank you. thank you. >> excuse me reverend brown. >> let me finish what i am saying. >> this is general public comment so everybody has a right to speak. we have other people waiting and you went past the dialogue. >> [inaudible] >> you can't do that. no. >> [inaudible] >> you can't do that. >> [inaudible] >> no, you can't. >> my two minutes start now. my pastor has something else to conclude. thank you. >> no. you can't do that. >> unfortunately the rules are this way. >> i will ask you since you're the commissioner with the schedule to schedule a meeting that black folks are given adequate time to speak their minds. you cannot say this in no two, three minutes of what is happening wit

you also have conservatives, african-americans or libertarian african-americans such as thomas noel whowrote vigorous defenses of lincoln upon published -- publishing of other lincoln books. one thing my book does is say i do think there is criticism of lincoln on the left. i think it exists. i asked one left wing political purist, corey robin, i said, what do you think the status of lincoln's on the left? he said, i think it is ambivalent leave positive. -- ambivalent leave positive -- ambivalently positive. i think, right now where you see the political influence, it comes from this libertarian movement within the family of conservatism. i think you see, and it is one of the things that was pointed out to me by larry arne hart, a conservative at northern illinois university, criticisms of lincoln has, from conservatives. rich lowery, editor of national review, published the book "lincoln unbound." richard burr kaiser, a writer at national review, published his biography of lincoln "founders son. " that is where my book leaves off, that there is an ambivalent ly positive view of lincol

first african american president, you have african american attorney general, six years their effort, we're some ways further apart. that's a tragic failure of leadership at the very top. you have the community has to respect the police. the police have to respect the community. and both have failed. >> schieffer: are you saying that this is the the fault of barack obama? >> i'm saying that the president uses language which is divisive. automatically jumps to conclusions about things he doesn't know. the attorney general clearly has given speeches that are divisive. i'm just suggesting to you just as tragic lost opportunity you would think that six years in to the first african american president there would be a sense in the community of us coming closer together. that hasn't happened. let me remind you the two people who have done the most to save african american lives in new york city were rudy guiliani and mike bloomberg. actually saved thousands of lives by focusing on crime in a very intelligent way candidly if chicago were to be as aggressive as new york you'd be saving hundre

fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. >>> when millions of africans >>> when millions of africansnts they played, their gods and their food came with them. in the days of slavery you would hide that stuff, whether it was your religion or your self-defense skills. so tell me about capoeira. >> it was a kind of martial art but in the beginning of the 19th century capoeira became more like a game and the music instruments were associated to the fight. >> no hands, right? all feet and head. why no hands? >> we use the hands in just a few movements. >> where did that come from and why do you think that became -- >> some people say that this is inspired by the animal movements. >> in a recent study observing the comparative destructive power between kicks from various martial arts, of karate, muy thai and tae kwon do, it was capoeira that packed the most ferocious impact. the colonial masters knew this and made it illegal for much of brazil's history. today maestras like johnji and paulina teach in classrooms and on stages. >> originally it was a male-dominated activity. when did that c

why are they down in the african-american community? because black folks have been jairchged yanked out of this town based on public policy [inaudible] let me make my point. >> thank you. >> you yanked us out of here so there is no need for us to play the numbers game. still the

african-americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed.mericans earn $13,000 less per year than their white counterparts. the unemployment rate of african-americans has consistently been twice as high as for whites over the last 50 years. for every $100 in wealth of a white household, the black household only has $6 in wealth. what is this? what is this if it's not an emergency? america's not working for many african-americans and we as the congressional black caucus have an obligation. we know. that we talk about it all the time. we have an obligation to fight harder and smarter in the next congress and help repair the damage. and so my leadership of this caucus will be influenced by my experiences growing up in a segregated south. jim clyburn often says that we are the sum total of our experiences. and that is so very true. my life's experiences are similar to many of my colleagues. we saw racism at its worst. in my hometown of wilson, north carolina, the railroad tracks divided our town. our town with 23 miles of unpaved streets greetin

do you think that affirmative action has benefited the african-american people at all? i mean i work for the federal government and i see that the federal government is the biggest violation of racism. when i'm there working and i see the number of african-americans that are employed by the federal government if you're in washington, dc or baltimore area there's a lot more african-americans that are promoted up in high hierarchy positions but if you go to the south or the west that's not the case. so us out here on the west kind of struggle with the fact that in that sense, city government federal government we're not getting promoted to the level that we should be. we're very capable people with college degrees and we watch people that come in that have been in the system maybe one or two years and get promoted over us. >> guest: a couple of things. number one we live in a huge huge huge country, and different parts of the country, i'm sure there are different levels of affirmative action. things are different in different places. i think, though that affirmative actio

numbers of african-americans killed by african-americans. we don't look at the big issues like the failures of our school systems. out of ten potential points it could receive, it receives two. we don't look at the real fundamental issue. i don't know if we're ready to have this conversation, but we need to have this conversation because we spend too much time doing the same things, getting the same results, which are having african-americans fall at the back of society's bus . >> ashley yates began by saying that americans at large are more aware of the state of play for african-americans. does that help us to start from the same play if we're going to start having some of these difficult debates? >> well, i think one of the issues that we have to put on the table is the identity of white america. if we have an identity problem which in my--the way i look at it philosophically is the hierarchy, in which people are supposed to be at the top and others are supposed to be at the bottom, and police officers are there to maintain the social hier

10% of the congress of the united states, african-americans. but it's not just the color of their skin that is so important. s the content of their character that they display on a daily basis, calling us all to the best that is within us and the best that is america. c.b.c. members represent 22 states and the district of columbia. all five of the new c.b.c. members for the 114th congress are women. i will tell my male friends -- [applause] bringing the total to 20. almost half of the members of the congressional black caucus. and in another historic first, perhaps most illustrative of its strength in policy make, seven full committee ranking members are c.b.c. members. will the ranking members stand? this speaks to the enormous progress we have made over the past 50 years. in 1965, john lewis walked across a bridge. the edmund pettus bridge in selma. two weeks later, martin luther king, with legions walked across that bridge. the conscience of america was moved. and we made progress. today, though, the voting rights act sunday threat. all our

the wellspring for everything african and spicy.and move constantly. it's a place where everybody is sexy, where even the ugly people are hot. unsurprisingly, this is where artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of absorbent starch product like farofa, the perfect accompaniment to many, many caipirinhas. >> oh, excellent. obrigado. now we're talking. it's a tough town for vegetarians. oh, chorizo, good. i'll have six more of these, please. people are staring at me. look at the heathen hump of an american, how much he's eating. just li

he thought he was giving an illicit, i'm just helping hand to african-americans because it allowed african-americans to be citizens of the united states immediately. he thought that was a sort of illicit reverse discrimination. he thought it was reverse discrimination for federal law to say that african-americans in fact all people, had to have the same rights to enter into contracts and own property on the same basis as white people. he viewed that as a type of quote of affirmative action. people nowadays don't view that as affirmative action. they view that as anti-discrimination law. the affirmative action we're used to, the affirmative action i mainly talk about in my book mainly came about in the late 1960s and early 1970s. the reason why it came about is because of a widespread feeling that anti-discrimination laws alone would not be enough to quickly desegregate american life. >> host: what about court cases? >> guest: there have been many court cases and will there will be many more. just this past week and anti-affirmative action organization filed a court case against my university, harvar

we know african-americans and whites have no difference in drug usages but an african-american is threemore likely to be arrested for doing it. if you go further this over incarceration of americans in general, african-americans in particular we have a higher black incarceration rate than africa. you have weird realities like the state of new jersey, this progressive state where blacks are 12% 13%, somewhere around there but over 60% of the prison population. what i'm going to do legislatively and what i'm excited about, again, red states are leading in mississippi and georgia. guess what is happening. crime is going down. making common sense changes that the federal world hasn't done. there are good legislatures, people like rand paul, people like mike lee. senator cornyn, senator scott. even senator ted cruz and i talked about this and believe we should be doing things. it's the idea time should come. newt gingrich, norcross. fiscal conservatives can change things. that's one of my things. >> i want to ask senator scott to come back and join us for the rest of the hour. i want to star

the wellspring for everything african and spicy. this is where artists come from.ualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of absorbent starch product like farofa, the perfect accompaniment to many, many caipirinhas. >> oh, excellent. obrigado. now we're talking. it's a tough town for vegetarians. oh, chorizo, good. i'll have six more of these, please. people are staring at me. look at the heathen hump of an american, how much he's eating. just line them up, my friend. thank you. obrigado. yeah. ♪ so nice walking around here. the party component's really amazing. there's always drums somewhere. ♪ >> [

that means we include young men and women as part of our initiative but we focus on the african-american students in our community which if you look at many indicators our we're demonstrating we have challenges in terms of how we are serving our african-americans in san francisco the reason it is too important that mayor ed lee has signed on is that i have the primg to attend a signing in washington, d.c. at the white house with almost one hundred other attendees across the united states we pledged will to the president and our community by sign object the doted like that we'll focus only african-american achievement in the community as it pertains to our school system we're align them in support of our students of color what is so important the mayor accepted this challenge on the part of san francisco and signed an agreement that he would also, if the municipal leadership prospective focus on the issue so capitalizing on the excellent relationship with the city and county of san francisco mayor ed lee and i have enlist mr. fred blackwell the san francisco foundation and together with m

to african-americans move out of st. louis into the suburbs of north county and whites move into central and south county for the most part. what does this yield? it brings with it a movement of concentrated poverty out of the city and into the north side. the red here are the tracks where income is less than two thirds of the metro average. and you can see concentrated poverty in the city of 1970 but as we scroll this moves out into the suburbs and the larger outline is the fluorescent school district and the smaller is the city of ferguson as well. and we can see this in the poverty rate is now as stark in north county as in the city itself. we can see it in the patterns of unemployment and especially youth unemployment and in the sustained fiscal crisis in these inner suburbs. so here i've mapped the ability of local school districts that generate revenue per student. and you can see in central county you have a combination of high revenues per student on a very low tax rate. in north county and in the city, you not o

churches out of san francisco which also has to do with it out immigration of african-americans i'm concerned and want something done about this. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon mr. chair and members of the commission to the director i want to thank you first of all, for augmenting our agenda to permit us to speak first we're here regarding a serious matter and it's the heart and soul of this city and nation equality justice and consistent respect for all people's in regards to race creed or color social station or sex call situation persons come behind me speak about discriminatory practices of the staff of this agency when it comes to parking i have spoken is to the director about it it's outstanding now for a year nothing has been done you have overly zealous employees who are ticket happy without complaints who will cite those cars that are principally in the african-american community we're not playing the race card on dealing what the deck that's been deadliest out to us when you go over into the mission the

we had no african-american's on that board.he only one of five companies in america that has both african american, lat dean know and asian board members. >> corporate changes must start with board directors before change trickles down. >> it's one of the most segregated places in our society. we have seen huge changes in our country in 40, 50 years. but it is easier to elect a black man president of the united states than it is for about 150 companies to find a black man or woman to sit on their board. >> according to the 2014 black enterprise annual report on corporate directors, 30% of s&p 250 did not have a single black board member. >> they are self organizations and pick their members. >> even search firms can't. >> they do what their clients tell them. i don't think they'll say don't bring me these people. they'll probably say on the surface do bring all that but at the end of the day the decisions are made by the sitting directors. we can anchor pratt america burr it's not going to be easy or happen overnight. >> up nex

he noticed the magnificent independence taking place on the stage of african history. and noticing the developments and noticing what was happening and noticing what was being done on the part of his black brothers and sisters in africa gave him a new sense of dignity in the united states and a new sense of self-respect. the negro came to feel that he was somebody. his religion revealed to him that god loves all of his children and that all men are made in his image. and that the basic thing about a man is not his specificity, not the texture of us here or the color of his skin, but his eternal dignity and worth. and so the negro in america could cry out unconsciously with the elephant voice, black complexion cannot forfeit nature's claim. skin may differ, but affection dwells in black and white the same. and where i so tell as to reach the pole or to grasp the ocean as it stands, i must be measured by my soul. the mind is the standard of the man. and with this new sense of dignity and this new sense of self respect, a new negro came into being with the new determinati

again, they are not targeting african american communities.are targeting low fico score communities. but we really have a lot of work to do. >> we do indeed. ryan mac, thanks for coming on. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up on "real money," we'll get back to the death of saudi king abdullah and what it means and does not mean for the future of opec's most important member. that and more when "real money" returns. ♪ >>> welcome back. we want to return to our breaking news out of the middle east that's a picture of saudi arabia king abdullah. we have gotten news from state tv that he has now died at the age of 90. he served as king since 2005. his brother, salman who is 79 is now king and widely expected to continue the country's close ties to the united states. joining us now to shed more light on what this means and does not mean is our own patricia sabga. first of all, saudi arabia the world's largest exporter of oil, does anything change with this transition? >> the one thing that the saudis are really going to put out to the world is that

they saw the incredible overincarceration of african-americans.they are in tune with, can i find people, they don't care what color, party, what have you, correcting an american wrong that we are the leader in the globe. we are the incarceration nation, not china and russia. destroying lives in my neighborhood. they don't care about all the stuff we often talk about in washington. what they care is can we come together and get something done? if we are successful in expanding apprenticeship in the united states of america for white people black people, folks going on to get their ph.d.s from princeton and open up our economy, opportunity economy, then they are happy. that's what we need to focus on a lot more. only 13 months old is exciting to me is that despite all the noise in washington about gridlock and the like, in 13 months, i have been able to find democrats and some republicans to try to find a pathway to make a real difference to the folks i'll return to in new jersey. >> i'll start with you first senator scott. the senate is changing. t

the san francisco explosion and felony arrests of african-american in 95 and 2009 period didn't occur elsewhere in the state and other areas. 40% drug arrests and have arrest rates higher than 50% -- i mean five times than the counter parts are in other counties. more than half youth drug felonies involve african-americans who constitute 9% of the city youth and 1/3 latino males who compromise 11% of city youth. despite this disproportionality drug arrests and rates young young african-americans in san francisco of more than 2,000 residents and non residents in the city who have died from abuse of illicit drug in the last decade six of 10 were non latino whites and more than seven of 10 were able 40 and older. in 2009 even though african-americans represented this% of the population they [inaudible] narcotic arrests. sf weekly and the data base stand out as of [inaudible] -- 59% of gang members are black and 31 were hispanic. it's a notable chunk of the city that is only 6% black. less than 20% of gang members are black. no one had a proportion higher than 29%. >> thank you for coming

not just african-americans. the members of the congressional black caucus. please stand. if you would repeat after me. raise your right hand, please. i, state your name. do solemnly swear or affirm that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic that i will bear true faith and allegiance to oh the same, that i i take this obligation freely and without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office as members of the congressional black caucus, so help me god. congratulations. >> thank you. >> okay, ladies and gentlemen. please welcome the outgoing cbc chairwoman, representative marcia l. fudge. >> good morning. there is one thing i have to do. i don't give shoutouts as a general rule. there are two members of the audience i must reck are niez. two of our former colleagues. please stand and be recognized. ms. clayton, mr. watt. let's give them a hand, please. [ applause ] i seem certai

it is an african form of singing. there are also numerous accounts of witnesses seeing slaves saying -- sing "say, brothers" on foundations -- on plantations in a ring shout, circling, which is another african tradition. this song -- the minister who first wrote this song down he saw slaves at a camp meeting sing the song. wrote it down so he would capture the call and response format. there are numerous other corroborating pieces of evidence that suggest it was sung especially by african-americans. and that becomes the origin. it had a "glory, glory hallelujah" chorus. these slaves were particularly enthralled with the "glory glory hallelujah." it was especially popular among them. there were three uses before it became very popular. it was a song sung not just blacks, but by blacks and whites. let me play you a stanza of this. this is by bobby horton. [recorded banjo music] >> ♪ say, brothers, will you meet us? say, brothers, will you meet us? say, brothers, will you meet us on canaan's happy shore? glory, glory hal