black people and particularly the black male.i think you have to look it eric holder and finally somebody liberalizing the difference between the crack-cocaine versus powdered cocaine which has been an issue since the reagan administration and jesse jackson has been complaining about it. no one has had any success. but you know trying to liberalize it in terms of obama in terms of addressing it. leave this also with the issue of the fact that we just mentioned, where he came from. a lot of people point out that he is of a mixed background, but consider if he actually went to law school to improve his work in the community at on the southside of chicago which is where black people are. the woman he married was it you the full, highly intelligent black woman. >> still is. >> unfortunately we know what happens with too many, too many of our entertainers, our superstars. they go the other way. i just think, keep in mind i think, i think when you look at what he has done, it may not necessarily have a black face directly on it but i t

having grown up in arkansas and having lived around black people and havingú black people come into his's store.. >> right. >> .and having a friendly relationship with them. i think he was a different person.. >> yeah. >> .than the other white presidents we've had. it doesn't mean he's lacker than barack obama. >> right. but being, being a southerner were, were, a preconditioned coofort wwthú that and serving effectively as president, haley barbour might be running for president. >> but you know, i think haley barbour probably is more comfortable with black people than many northerners are. >> really? >> yes i do. >> the accusations of racism against him notwithstanding. >> oh yes. >> yeah. >> because i think that some of those are strong, are proper accusations. >> yeah. >> that he does say racist things or ignorant things anyway. >> yeah. >> and luckily as you said, it's not the same thing. you know, it's possible to be ignorant and not be a racist, and he has, you know, on occasion, he's been both. >> yeah. okay. can we talk about how you got to be this person; how you got to be at t

this is something if we were to take black political ideology, it's not black nationalism, it's black integrationists and black radicalists it's not black feminists for reasons we can't understand why. this is one of the passages no, this is marable editorializing and that's why it's incumbent. the black academy is far more diverse when manning started. far more diverse but what we really need is more straight up black nationalist dollars because black nationalism is the most misunderstood black political ideology. [laughter] >> that passage stuck me as well and i would just say -- my response to it was that -- that this was a very american moment. if you've traveled outside of the u.s., particularly, the first time you go to affirmative action particularly as an african-american and as a conscious african-american, so you have the whole framework of race and you know the history of the whole thing, you are struck dumb, actually. when you are kind of confronted with the diaspora. i think this is not an unusual phenomenon. i think that particularly as malcolm was an orator, a speaker -

black women.trategy not to affect the things that impact black women, black women are the ones who have been on the front lines of social justice movements as well and also because so many families are headed by black mothers that if we don't deal the way gender traumas affect them, then we're creating a further crisis in our community. one thing is gender dynamic, right? not only how -- how men respond to it. how is this playing out in popular culture? >> do a lot of work with boys and men around the country. i've spoken to thousands of men at high schools, colleges, charity settings, sports settings all over the country and there's a lot of defensiveness. a lot of guys are very very, defensive and there's a lot of deflection, mark. there's always pushing the issue back on to the woman as if the woman is the source of the problem and that we can't be several-critical. we can't think about our own attitudes, our own behaviors. that deflection does not allow us to be several-critical. it does not a

black. as he drove through they found other men doing their work all over the place except the top cadres of officers were all black. the place was clean and orderly. i wish you could have seen it. his family was impressed. his best day came soon after the war ended when he was an officer in the fighter group stationed in kentucky. officer pilots who needed to log a certain number of hours a month were allowed to fly anywhere they wanted provided aircraft were available. when his time came up of course the place i wanted to fly was can and field. he took off and radioed his location and announce to the tower in atlanta is content to lana the flight controller asked for a fighter pull up. the maneuver would require him to fly at low altitude in a propeller driven fighter plane, one of the most powerful in the military arsenal into a vertical climb and land. this was regular duty for a fighter pilot but guaranteed to provide a thrill in a civilian airport. on his initial entry he radioed the c

black ideology. [applause] >> i know exactly the passage it was when he started reading because that passage dropped me as well and i would just say, my response to it was that this was a very american moment. if you have traveled outside the u.s., this is the first time you go to africa particularly as an african-american and is a conscious african-american so you have the whole framework of race and you know what you are talking about. you have a history of the whole thing. you are struck dumb actually when you are kind if confronted with the diaspora. i think this is not an unusual phenomenon. i think particularly as malcolm was an r-rated or, a speaker who sees both all the time and those of us who speak all the time have phrases that we call on. everything he has said i've never heard before. seriously i don't know how he we does it but most of us humans, we have certain ways of speaking and we don't even realize that they are transitioning us from one thing to another. this is what we do partic

for black americans, 16.2%. president obama, the nation's first black president, is doing nothing about this, some believe. one of these so believers is princeton professor cornell west. >> i think he does have a predilection much more towards upper middle-class white brothers and jewish brothers and has a certain distancing from free black men who will tell him the truth, both with himself and what is going on in black communities, brown communities, red communes, and poor white and working class communities. >> west calls president obama a black mascot of wall street and a black puppet. also, professor west announced he and talk-show host tavis smiley will begin a national poverty tour next month to sharpen the nation's awareness on what they call the failings of the president. african-americans at large agree with west and smiley. the president has dropped by more an 20 points with african- americans, from 77% last yesr to just over 50% this year. why? jobs. by the way, in 2008, the black volt for president o

it's a core love for blackness and black people, an option for blackness which so doesn't exist thathaving a preferential black perp, the black guy because if he's cheating you, than at least the cheating is going to a black guy; right? [laughter] or saying no, i don't want to live in the white neighborhood. it's option for blackness in a variety of ways, but the danger is that it can also limit what we think and prompt blackness is, and i think manning's book on malcolm does that in that it's trying to retain malcolm x as core leader of african american politics at this moment and simultaneously deconstruct who we think this black body is and suggest to us it's more challenges, more difficult, more complex at the boundaries of blackness than we typically allow it to be in our mythology. >> real quick, we disagree on nationalism, but not black feminists -- >> no, but -- [laughter] >> hello, thank you so much. i've really appreciated listening to all of you guys on the panel this evening, so thank you for being here. i'm iata rasheed originally from california, but been in baltimore f

i would like to introduce you to carol jenkins, author of black titans and making of a black american millionaire. a writer and producer and an emmy award winning former w. nbc-tv television anchor and correspondent and founding president of the women's media center. she is executive producer of the pbs documentary what i want my words to do to you which won the freedom of expression award at the sundance film festival in 2003. carol jenkins enjoys an award winning tenure in several new york city news department including 23 years that w. nbc tv where she coanchored the 6:30 p.m. newscast. she was most identified with reporting of national political stories including from the floor of the democratic and republican national convention that yielded president carter, reagan, bush and clinton. give a round of applause to carol jenkins. [applause] >> next up we have dr. julianne malveaux, author of surviving and thriving 365 black economic history. she is the fifteenth president of college for women leaders' unrecognized for progressive observation. she is an economist, author and commenta

it's not centered about i'm black and what happened as a black woman today.s what happened as a regular woman, you know, in a regular city with -- >> strong black woman? >> no, not even the strock back woman. -- strong black woman. no. >> you have to be a -- >> no, just a very mild-tempered strong black woman. [laughter] some of us are quite introverted actually. [laughter] so, i mean, just our regular stories can be interesting and funny and engaging. everything doesn't have to be, you know, the bluest eye, you know? we really have wonderful stories that we all can relate to and i think will just promote the diversity with our own cultures and have us all understand each other more. and we happen to do it through things that are funny and can kind of teach things about our experiences as a neighborhood or a community. but i think it's just important for us to branch out and maybe pick up a book that you maybe wouldn't have picked up before and just, you know, try out some different things. >> mel, you had a piece that you wanted to share with us. >> i just w

black people are in places where we never would have been able to imagine. white house, right? >> yes. >> and we have a way of thinking about the relationship between race and class and gender and sexuality and nation and ability that would have boggled people's minds 40 years ago. so that to me is progress. that indicates that we've gone a lot further than i ever would have been able to imagine sitting in that jail cell 40 years ago. >> for so many people you signify a certain kind of mill tansy and a certain kind of radicalness in the freedom struggle as opposed to a civil rights, mainstream civil rights direction. how did you get on that track as opposed to the track that other people were on. you come from alabama. how do you come from alabama to a black panther party? >> think it was about generation. nowadays we tend to narrow that movement. we tend to think of it only as civil rights movement, but there were those of us in the '60s who felt as if we needed to go further. we listened to malcolm x. we were also influenced by fidel castro and che guevera

>>> welcome to "our world with black enterprise." a very special edition as we celebrate our 100th episode. i'm marc lamont hill. in the past five years, we've covered ground-breaking stories, featured award-winning celebrities and showcased provocative trendsetters. we have been there for the triumphs and the tragedies and tackled the challenges facing black communities around the country. let's take a look back at the highlights of "our world" let's take a look back at the highlights of "our world" starting now. captions made possible by the u.s. department of education and central city productions, inc. >>> welcome to this special 100th edition of "our world with black enterprise." in the past five years we have seen breath-taking strides for black americans in the political arena. we were on hand for an incredible series of firsts, including the historic run for the white house. across the nation, there was change in the air. for the first time, the country actually seemed ready to entertain the candidacy of a woman seeking the n

>> yes, it is harder to be a black actor and a black actress because there respect as many roles out there for us and there is so much talent among us. but i feel like i've been really, really lucky or blessed, whatever you want to call it i feel like i've got ton play some really amazing roles. >> one of the things i've always appreciated about you, every role do you is different, not like a typecast sort of role, they all have dignity, all interesting, creative. >> i want to play some characters without dignity, too. >> do you? >> why not? >> what kind of stuff? >> you know, i think the -- i don't know if you saw "the family that prays." >> my man. >> one of the reasons why i was drawn to her is because she -- she wasn't -- she was kind of a little morally corrupt and i think that that's part of the fun of being an actor is that you get to kind of do all those kinds of roles, so i look forward to playing -- i will play some characters without some dignity z i'm sure you reject a lot of stuff that doesn't fit? >> absolutely. a lot of it not so much about character it is about writin

is there an alienation of black youth today and the older black generations?> guest: i think there's a generational divide to say the least. we've heard, for example, in the words of bill cosby who at times has ranted against parts of this generation for not doing, i think, what he perceives to be the respectable right thing to do to succeed in society. there is a concern that we often hear from older members of black generations about, for example, even rap music so i think that there is a kind of fundamental divide that sometimes happens across generations. i think that the concern here when we talk about black communities is that often young black people feel alienated from a larger dominant or white society rng and we assume there's a kind of support system that happens within black communities and so when there's a divide even within black communities, there's greater concern where they find support, where they resinate, and who they understand to be their community. >> host: but that divide from the larger white community, as you say, is nothing new, is

history day, not just black history month, but every day be black history and honor that? thank you. and how do we really teach our children, our students really not what the media portrays, not what -- but really, what happened? i did get a chance to experience "eyes on the price" and i thought that was just the tip of the iceberg -- experience "eyes on the priceze." >> i do not know how to go about it, but what i would suggest is the reason why i did what i did, why i was brave enough and courageous enough to not give up my seat, because so much history was in my mind, and one of the things they were always asking me was why i did not get up when i was asked, and my answer would always be history had me glued to the seat. [applause] i think that what is left out of american history -- you should not be ashamed to say that we enslaved these people and mystery these people, a race of people. it should be included in the american history, and it would be every day. [applause] >> really quickly, it jolla i went to school with named sol williams said, "stealing as was the sma

but if you walk in the room and a black, they see you are black. that is what happened at u.s. airways. deshawn is highly educated. he went on that plane and they saw he was black. not only was he black, but thank you so much for your time. i have something for you later. thank you so much. president chiu: thank you. [applause] >> i wanted some assistance. i have just two minutes. i just wanted to play. when the mayor came to the bayview and supervisor cohen was there and mom and jackson was there, a lot of city officials can there. thank you, supervisor cohen. you're doing a wonderful job. ♪ ♪ ♪ ain't no fooling around you've got the look there have been so many things that help us down -- held us down now it looks like things are finally coming around. i know we've got a long way to go where we end up, i don't know we are putting ourselves together ♪ ♪ president chiu: thank you very much. could we get a little help? that is it? all right. next speaker. >> my name is devrat carpenter and i am here to speak for deshawn marmon and the black race and the bayview community. i feel

music in black culture. it is more segregated than it had ever been. you had pop stations that wouldn't play the lifeguard is. mtv which was just about to emerge wouldn't tell a black artist until they were forced to in the michael jackson thriller era and even black on stations like w. bls which was founded in the early part of the 1970s were -- they had it a lot of antipathy towards his music. >> i remember that. >> this book is the story of not just the artists but the people behind those now famous artists who made the famous famous to five behind the scenes, some of them like sylvia robinson, russell simmons, fab 5 freddie and on for a period of 40 years from 1968 to 2008. to turn this street culture with -- which could've been nothing into something and that is the story wanted to tell in my books. [applause] >> mark johnson you are here on a very personal mission. you have written a story of your father, who was the harlem globetrotters and you call it "basketball slave." now, when most of us, dependi

never black. >> didn't mean we didn't have one there. >> today, black serial killers are not rare.as well as in milwaukee and los angeles, each time the accused serial killer turned out to be african-american. dr. eric hickey is a psychologist who keeps track of serial killers. >> overall in my study, one out of every five serial killers is african-american. in the past, since 1995, over 40% are african-american. we're finally saying, what blacks do, there's two. >> there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief john glover had moved into this upper class white neighborhood, his 12-year-old son was playing outside one afternoon. >> some guy in a pickup truck was out in the yard, and our side yard, we were on a corner, we had a corner lot. said, "i'm going to get you nigger." as he was driving by. >> kaseem reed seen in the childhood photos was only 10 when the bodies were found in the woods close to his home in the summer of 1979. >> my life did change. >> how so? >> not out as late as you used to be. not able to ride your bike unaccompanied. >> in 2010, reed would bec

. >>> welcome to "our world with black enterprise. "i'm your host, marc lamond hill. >> the death of bin laden marks the host significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. >> what's what's going on in "our world" starting now. joining me to discuss the rapidly shifting political tides and how it might impact you are mark moreale of the national urban league, dr. marty merry of princeton university and author of the new book "more beautiful and more terrible, the embrace and transcendence of racial inequality in the united states" and david webb, coparty of the tea party 365. this is an interesting moment. ei are a little bit beyond this historical webb where barack obama comes on television and announces osama bin laden has been killed. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda, and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands. >> i saw celebration in the streets. i saw democrats and republicans all in agreement. does this signify a ne

that doesn't appreciate black humanity and black citizenship. and that society should be held culpable, all right? he's a prosecuting attorney in that sense, and he's consistent even when he's part of the nation of islam. he says that there's something wrong in a country that allows child abuse, that allows racial segregation, that allows poverty and that allows violence to be perpetbe waited against citizens just because they happen to be black, and that's why after john f. kennedy's killed, he's not rejoicing in the killing of kennedy, he's saying that the killing is connected to chickens coming home to roost because the united states is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world, and that violence has had a boomerang effect and killed a sitting u.s. president. he's not happy, he's sad. he said that it's a tragedy to be in a country that claims to be a democracy but actually isn't. [applause] >> dr. ben is micked up. we'll take his comment. >> a comment. >> okay. >> dr. ben. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i'm very pleased to atten

but it don't include black people. and what -- the information i need from you, your agency, is how many african people in the city -- african-american people in the city and county of san francisco are doing contractual relationships with the city and county of san francisco. i'm a veteran of war, and i have just been selected to talk to some of the prisoners from afghanistan who are black, they have one arm, one leg, so forth and so on. one of the things that they are coming back to is the same thing that black soldiers came back to after world war ii, vietnam war, and the korean war. they say it's 9% unemployment. did you know that over 38% of all black men in san francisco between the ages of 18 and 55 are unemployed? don't nobody want to talk about that. because while we are minorities, but minorities now put in one big bucket, so you can do what you want, as contractors, and this is working to our disadvantage. even the city and county of san francisco say we cannot show any preferential treatment because proposi

he said obama is a black mascot of wall street and black puppet of corporate -- now he has become headof the american killing machine and is proud of it. >> cornell is obviously rather upset. he is obviously a little upset. at any number of things with obama. i haven't spoken to him about his particular comments in this case. but he has consistently been a critic of obama along those lines and also ideologically they are in different places, correll and barack obama. >> is this more than attention grabbing? >> it has always been a mistake to assume that any group of african-americans are a monolith and it is always a mistake to assume people will all think the same way. we never have. no other group i am aware of ever has. there have been differences. what changed to some extent is willingness to air these differences publicly. clearly cornell west made the decision that he was ready and eager to go public with any number of complaints about barack obama and some of his complaints had to do with operation tickets and things like that. but i think it is healthy that he feels free and ot

america to his work on black politics. it is an extraordinary career that he had a vocation for trying to bring lucidity and clarity to complicated and difficult truths. i love this book. i read it and was privileged to read it before it was published. it is a brilliant insightful invigorating and of trying comprehension of an immoral human being has emerged american soil. colt malcolm the greatest figure of the 20th-century. some has been exaggerated and some has been generated from people's own sense of insecurity and frailty and homophobia and the fear of dealing with the raw truth of an evolving human being. i think the essence of this book is it delivers as complicated a vision of a man who needs to be understood and in his own autobiography that manning has challenged in a powerful way malcolm said they won't let me turn the corner and so many people have him in a bear hug that refuses to let him breathe freely the air of his own evolution. i celebrate this book and look forward to talking to you about it. >> like th

was one of the few polls actually ever been done specifically on the personal rights generation of black voters we polled voters ages eighteen through forty five and one of the things we found is that the younger you go the more the increase in the number of young black voters identifying themselves as registered independents not just identify myself as independent i think of myself as independent but i did actually registering as a dependent voters and that's something trending that's been holding voters between the ages of eighteen and thirty are significantly more likely to identify themselves as registered independents and african-american voters who are older than that who are overwhelmingly registered as democrats the poll numbers when we did our research were around a quarter of all black voters at that time ages eighteen to twenty four my research is about three and a half years ago it's even extend up to almost the age of thirty were registering as independents and the only other research that really been done among that program for the voters was about ten years ago and the num

at the same time, i do not think black capitalism is the solution to the problems of black folks who have been the victims of capitalism's boot. >> making sure that that kind of information becomes available. that could be the subject of what we deal with in black history month. you know? hal the wealth is developed. who developed it. loans what? how one gets to own it. we could do that. it could be touchy, but it could be useful. i'm just saying that we could use occasions for teaching about things that could make a difference. so i just say raise questions, and sometimes, raise hell when you raise the questions. [applause] >> i wanted to know if there was an african-american district attorney working in texas to review some of the cases that were -- i guess, tried, and some of the evidence was not valid. look

he said obama is a black mascott of wall street oligarchs in at black puppet of the cards and now he has become head of the american killing machine and the sound of it. >> cornell is obviously batfishs ics website added a number of things having to do with obama. i haven't spoken to him aboutmms his particular comments in this case, but he has consistently been a critic, alongcritic certy they are in quite different places at cornell and barack obama. >> i think that it's always been a mistake to assume that any group african-americans are and is always a mistake to assume people are all going to think the same way. we never have no other group i'm aware of ever had has. there have been differences. what's changed to some extent is the willingness to hear the difference is publicly, and i think that clearly cornell west made the decision that he was quite ready and eager to go public with any number of complaints about barack obama, and i actually think -- some of his complaints were having to do with operation tickets and things like that, but i think that it's healthy he feels fre

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 the nature of the society we live in? many useless activities are engaged in in black history month. i am sorry to say. it is still early. we have a chance to review. but i want to be clear. when you listen to the kind of statistics bryonn bain put out, the way that the structure still works, it is important we put that kind of information into the hands of young people to understand what we are addressing and also what we need to do to change it. in canada -- i recently did some work in nova scotia. their slogan for black history month is educate 12 months, celebrate one. so we have a lot to work on, to look back to, and to look forward to. i just want to say, that is something we cannot miss. when we talk about episodes like bryonn described, if it happened twice, it is an accident, twice, an accident. but when it happens three, four, five tim

shootings of black men, stabbings of black women.ped far om where they were killed. detective welcome harris would stay on the police force another 25 years. we asked him how many more children were killed the way they were in the '80s. >> none that i can recall. none that i can recall. >> wayne williams' appeals would drag on for years. he almost won the first one. georgia supreme court justice george smith helped a colleague write a ruling that would have reversed the verdict. >> he would have found the evidence didn't support a conviction. that's what he did find originally. >> but the five other justices resisted. >> when we met they pitched a royal fit. they were not going to overturn the conviction, the five of them wasn't. >> in the end, all the justices except smith agreed to uphold the conviction. wayne williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. >> i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. and we'll leave it at that. >> not so, said george smith, now retired from the court but still practici

slavery denied black folks the ability to be mobile. you were trapped on one location, in a plantation. it broke up our families. it subjected us to daly wants and violence. anything can happen to you -- an example to you for somebody else. it exploded us for our free labor. all of those things happen in prison today. the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's prison population. that is a big part of the equation. i am not waiting for superman, but somebody might be. if you look at the conditions of our schools, our schools have not been restructured, have been left alone to become the perfect feeder to prison prefatory. public schools are designed -- if you have any spirit, the spirit of a claudette colvin, they do not want to adapt to you. folks always ask, where are our leaders? they are in rikers island, san quentin, some of the greatest minds which had not found a space to tap into their genius. that is a big part of what has happened. not talking about the prison industrial complex as well as the militar