and even if i don't want to be michelle obama or betty shabazz and as long as i have reasonable control over my fertility, because they couldn't control their fertility because there was no ability technically to be able -- if i don't have health coverage, so i would love for barack to spitfire to white folks, whatever, but what i'm much more interested in is i can look at his housing policy is fundamentally different. so -- i mean, i want a spitfire, that would be hot. >> literally. >> right. but in the end, i just want us to remember that we will not -- we cannot save our children exclusively through ideas. we must save them through ideas but it can never exclusively be ideas. we already knew we were human. we already knew that god loved us. now we have to take the political work that says if god loves us, and if i'm a human, then you as the state cannot continue to treat me as though i am not. [applause] >> as we close the evening, i want to thank marable manning panel for being here this evening. and for marable manning who wrote this book as a man and scholar, and malcolm x life of

i'm afraid when we have ideas that say the best way to liberate yourself as a woman is to become betty shabazz or michelle obama and attach yourself to an important man. the part i love about this book that deconstructs that idea because you realize how much suffering she experiences so we can love her and also not have to tell her daughters to be that. ideas matter. they matter critically but in the end the fact that even if i don't want to be michelle obama or don't want to be betty shabazz isthmus i have equal pay for equal work and reasonable capacity to control my fertility, because one of the reasons women -- they couldn't control their fertility because there was no ability technically technically -- if i don't have health coverage. i would love barack to spitfire but what i am more interested in as i can look and see policy is policies fundamentally different. .. >> if god loves us, then you cannot continue to treat me as though i am not. [applause] [applause] >> as we close the evening, i want to thank everybody for being here, for writing the book, the man, the scholar, malcolm x lif