there was this deep solidarity of black people, black consciousness, black nationalism that gets pushed aside during the 1950's and 1960's moment. when we think about black power as a return to the black nationalist impulse, we begin to see, wait a minute, that shift towards black power really was not a radical break from something different, but in many ways a return to something new. as black folk were looking at this integration impulse, black folk never thought there was anything attractive about white people other than their ability to attract resources. but there was always the deep desire to preserve these black spaces, whether it was educational institutions or social spaces, because that is what black folk needed to rely on over the years to survive, and it seems we still need that today, especially in museums, because in the absence of that, we move back toward those points of and policies of erasure. dr. kendi: and one of the things i have been thinking about is that, because of the politics of erasure that ultimately becomes the end point of the integration of bodies -- agai

why am black troops deserted during the civil war, but black u.s. army soldiers experiences made their efforts unique. shape to theire decisions and how officers appreciated what desertion meant or how they thought of it. various white officers approached desertion differently. if they thought of desertion among racial terms. during the war many officers assumed black men would not desert. they are believed that they lacked the restless aggressive spine. this aggression served the white men's courage, but it also compelled white men to desert. without this spine, the official thought black men would not from battle. -- run from battle. others thought they would desert and do it constantly. writing home, evan said i thought it would be hard to keep new growth from running. in the end black men left the u.s. army at the same right -- the same rate. calculatedent approximately 200,000 white and black soldiers deserted. of that 2000, 12,000 black men deserted. than 67 black men for 1000 which was not far off from white men who deserted at 63 per 1000. b

the end black women who are during radical black feminist work and black folks who are women who are doing radical black feminist work is super important. if you agree with everything i say and you don't question for one moment and you're not curious or confused about something, i haven't done my job. >> absolutely. not just testing the equipment. thank you so much [applause] >> thank you, thank you. >> are some questions on the floor [inaudible] it was revealed -- [inaudible] [inaudible] and [inaudible] >> the question was about accountability. there is a conversation on whether the curator of the hip-hop at the smithsonian they found out it was a white woman and a lot of people come a lot of black people were wondering why that was. however, a lot of the elite black people came to the defense of the curator of the smithsonian. the question then becomes who are you accountable to? >> that's a really great question. i made several comments on twitter about it. first and foremost, by people of every single right to question what history their tally. even if it's by people. and especia

sixty three percent black most of our elected officials are black . but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. ate here. you know drink here. actually that restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing that i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street sta

i've seen the first black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and the first black president of the usa. i've seen musicians from michael jackson to kendrick lumar rise to the top of popular culture. i've seen black athletes from shaq, even the controversial colin kapernick all over tv advertising products and actors like jennifer hudson and den vel washington win academy awards. i can keep going this way. it's an incredible record of achievement in my lifetime, more blacks and luteenose serve in the congress than ever before. black high school graduation rates at an all-time high and more african americans getting college degrees. it's all the best of times. then there's this. scratch the surface and you find something altogether different, a nation recoiling, just last year watching kkk and neo nazis march in public. appalls that black people have to remind everyone in the wake of deadly police shootings that black lives matter. so in 2018, today, 64% of americans tell nbc polling that racism is a major problem in american life. 77% of african americans tell polksters they have a

other black women. even her manufacturing this was , at the time when black women beauty manufacturers were supplying her products. there was no one the police chief could go to to say to fire her. she was autonomous. that positioned her and other beauticians well to be able to take risks because they did not have fear of education. women and men would lose their jobs all the time at their civil -- if their civil rights activity was found out. that is a big reason. what are other reasons? >> you mentioned how one of the politicians said that he aims to mobilize beauticians because they were like missionaries. everyone they come in contact with, they make voting as important as god. their proximity to their customers and other people in the community allows them to be like missionaries and spread the word and spread activism. prof. gill: any of us who have ever been to a beauty salon or particularly those who have a long-term relationship with one stylists, there is a certain kind of intimacy and bond th

that even being from muslims who are black and you know being called black muslims so there's a way that even when you see representations of black muslims are muslims who are black they are not a part of the whole conversation of muslims so we're sort of their it in that and that is because i think that relationship. black people have in this country in terms of how we were brought over here trapped in the lennox place given the discussion about islam in america and how when we think about the slaves and during antebellum south and the idea that there are actually muslims who are practicing black muslims who are black practicing islam but that is often left out of history books and certainly left out of the discussion of that in cinema so for me it's about sort of you know i take like the idea that. i think about it is redefining what people expect in terms of what it means to be muslim and muslim who had who was black but was very american so i think about the. muslim band and how that band is also a band. of african countries as well but the faith of the muslim band doesn't seem

they supported black power, black manhood and black empowerment. it's how the male contemporaries could champion the demise of racism and capitalism but to be content to keep patriarchy intact. can you talk about that and address the question of why we decide certain people intellectuals and others are n not. not that it's not a great program because we have free breakfast in schools because of it but i thought to myself if i read one more book what all the women are doing is serving other people i might go insane. and so that is kind of step number one. step number two is like i said, i conducteden over 40 interviews for this book and all the women including francis, who i just read from our pointing out to me all the places where they are engaging in dialogue and exchange booth in print and art etc. are all talking about their ideas of what it meant to be a black womannt and be a part of something like the black power movement so i was interested in writing a book that kind of ladiversified how we understood women in particular in the movement al

sixty three percent black most of our elected officials are black . but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. eight here. you know drink here. actually there restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street s

a black shave, i walked a black walk, i wrote some black lines, i coughed black and sneezed black and black, too. this last at least is literal. grapes, blackberries, the ripest plums. thank you. [ applause ] >> kevin young. thank you, kevin. n. scott momaday. when asked if he agreed that the novel "house made of dawn" led to the breakthrough of native american literature in american letters, n. scott momaday honestly replied, you can argue that. i don't think that there can be any argument about the fact that the author that we honor here tonight is the dean of the native american literary renaissance. momaday is the author of 16 books of poems, autobiography, essays, fiction, plays and folklore. his ground-breaking pulitzer prize for "house made of dawn" in 1968 marked the re-emergence of native american voices in narratives and fiction. in addition, momaday is a talented water colorist, a founder of the buffalo trust to preserve native american culture, an esteemed professor and a member of a dance society. in all facets of his life, momaday celebrates the sacred in nature and the

sixty three percent black most of our elected officials are black. but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. ate here. you know drink here. actually there restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks so there's a neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the stree

the black valor, black nationalism inspired strike at san francisco state college in 1968 and 1969. during the late 1960's, many advocates of black power rejected american liberalism and adopted the fighting words of a transnational event. the anti-colonial movement in africa asia and latin-america. they declared the necessity of a black revolution in the third world revolution by any means necessary. including gorilla war and the power in black and third world communities. this state of war would continue until they are nonnegotiable demands, first and foremost determination of african-american in third world communities were met. the white power structure surrendered what today is called white privilege. my purpose today is to show how another set of words words of dignity, respect recognition and reconciliation brought the strike to an end with measurable gains to the student strikers. these were the words of mark j. hurley. in south africa catholic bishop inspired by another transnational event. the second vatican in rome, 1962 to 1965. hurley helped reduce violence during the s

on black crime is our problem.ple said why are you lecturing black folks when there is systemic racism? so i don't buy that he did nothing. i think today with kanye west, what you saw was not a message to the black community but a message to trump supporters ahead of the midterms. don't worry about the problem of race, i have a black friend. >> so again, what i have to say is, when people say he is a problem or, he's stupid, or -- i will just go back to the revolving door of celebrity who are making their pitches on a variety of issues to obama, and of the clintons. and this was considered all well and good, whether it was george clooney or jay and bay. whoever it was, they did celebrity send-off for the president. that something like the grammy awards. >> let me interject really quickly. here's what i'm saying. i want gianna to have his chance but allow me to respond. if you look back from eisenhowe eisenhower, ronald reagan, two presidents kennedy and president bush, they had black advisors and latino advisors. h

while the concept of black start is well-established we need assurance that black start functionality is appropriately considered as the grid architecture, technology, operation and generation portfolio continue to evolve. the doe has taken a forward-looking approach in partnership with utilities to research how we can avoid catastrophic outage as well as explore how new grid modernization technology investments might be used to provide flex our capability. let me provide some examples. under the solar energy innovation network funded by the doe solar energy technology office we are working with pjm and the national association of regulatory utility commissioners and nine teams to explore black start up with where solar generation stories. we have also several gm oc projects with relevant research. one particular project led by our company in hawaii explore how distributive resources can help restore stability following major events such as loss of major powerplant or transmission line. another project led by another laboratory titled extreme event modeling is quantifying the risk of

men cut into 1000 pieces and is black is your hat. you could not tell the white from the black, only by their hair. the wounded were flied loan, and the dead were all maggot-eaten, so he had to lift them on shovels. to my full of maggots up shovels. by the time i was done, i was so sick i could not stand." as usual, casualty figures are only estimates, but surely the 3798 union casualties officially reported is underestimated. the confederates lost about 1600 was 17.1% of the troops engaged, and attrition rate not that much less than the federals. ferrero lost one man killed for every 1.8 men wounded. civil war battle was one man killed for every 4.8 men wounded, which gives you an idea of the way the black troops were treated. burnside's core lost 23 regimental commanders. an official inquiry shortly after the battle, called by meade who packed the court with officers sympathetic to him and, not surprisingly, burnside became the scapegoat and was sent home never to receive another assignment. ferrero and leslie would also leave the a

sixty three percent black most of our elected officials are black. but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. kwame wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. ate here. you know drink here. actually that restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street stan

to learn thousand work with our black students -- how to work with our black students. [applause] >> bsu gives us a way to come together as a black student community to voice our opinions, feel supported and comfortable. >> it gives us a platform to decide on changes so that we can make formal recommendations to the school site council that we are official members of. >>> racism is institutionalized. this is why it is important to come to be informed as parents and stakeholders. [applause] >> a special thank you to our group. as you can see the love for african-american students and families is spreading and growing. and a special thank you to all of our staff and partners who have made a decision to uplift the voices of african-american families and respond to our voicings by listening, educating and advocating. all in support of our incredibly brilliant and capable youth. for those wishing to get more involved, please check out the meeting dates above or reach out to our coordinator via the contact information listed. thank you again for this opportunity and now we wa

the northeast blacked out in 1965. the grid is much more integrated today than when it was then in a lot of different ways. is there a danger that what happened in 1965, which was not a cyber attack, but it was a series of successive failures, could spread nationwide, or are there gaps, are there protections? >> generally speaking, when you have one side of the system go down, you'll see a separation. and you saw that in 2003 where we had some problems in northern ohio. it took out new york into parts across there, but the pjm system was able to stay up because of some strength of the transmission. so, it's likely that type of event's not going to take the system down globally. it's more, you know, the global thing is more, in my opinion, more of an intentional attack-type scenario, and i think that's different. so, just for what it's worth, i believe the grid itself has some protections to stop blackouts from spreading too far. >> thank you. >> well, also, there are three interconnections on the mainland u.s. and then

i coughed black and sneeze black and eight black to. is literal blackberries and black grapes thank you. [laughter] [applause] . >> kevin young thank you kevin. n. scott momaday when asked about the breakthrough of native american literature n. scott momaday replied you could argue that. i don't think there can be any argument about the fact the man that we honor tonight is the being of the native american literary minutes on 16 books of poems and autobiography essay fiction and folklore is groundbreaking pulitzer prize from 1968 marked the reemergence of native american voices in fiction and in addition he is a talented watercolor of buffalo trust to preserve native american culture and an esteemed professor and member of the kia web board dance society and all facets of his life n. scott momaday celebrates the sacred nature of unconditional life so for those invaluable contributions this year's anisfield-wolf book award lifetime achievement recipient. give it up for n. scott momaday. [applause] 's b3. [applause] [applause] . >> growin

the travel of the book within blackness and black people is a very unsettling book for black liberals and black progressives in the history of that work has been always kind of alongside the separatist notion in her nationalist notion we've had a very integrationist, inclusionary sense of also resistance that has coincided in parallel tracks. if you think about part of what the women are doing in the 19th century and early 20th century, it is to say what we are trying to do is the overly black women are able to have autonomy over our bodies is to gain rightful citizenship. it is a fight to be citizens with inequality. even the people we see now as radical folks in black history. are people feeling really uncomfortable when what you're really saying is it's irreconcilable. the state is basically going to continue to kill us. our calls for inclusion within the state are basically futile unless we choose a different, really radically different than the one that has been the dominant path within the black movement struggle. how does that fit in are people, not you with those kinds of conc

secondly, black males, in particular unarmed black males, are at a greater risk and have more vulnerability to being a victim of a fatal police shooting relative to their white male counterparts and all other individuals across the country. this leads us to look at 17 of some of the most prominent and well-known cases of black male civilians who were unarmed and killed by law enforcement, including individuals such as freddie gray, tamir rice, michael brown, and many other individuals. when we take a look at the criminal case dispositions of these 17 black male victims who were unarmed, we can see some frightening results. the chart on the left shows the cases in which an officer was not criminally charged for murder or manslaughter. we can see indicated in green that one out of these eight cases is still pending, relatively new from 2018. the rest, seven out of eight, notes criminal charges were brought against -- no criminal charges were brought against the police officers. on the right we can see cases where officers were indicted or criminally charge. in two of those cases, the officer

a black dude. for those of you tuning in to racism late, here's a quick refresher. the klan was initially founded after the civil war by a group of confederate soldiers who were all like, dang, but we wasn't finished depressing black folks yet. since then, whenever it looked like black folks were getting too uppity the klan came back, after the great depression, during the civil rights movement, and then recently after this happened. >> cnn can now project that barack obama, 47 years old, will become the president-elect of the united states. >> but that black guy isn't headed down a dark road at night. this black guy is. i'm here to meet with an arkansas leader of the ku klux klan. how come this can't happen during the day again? all right. there's a car with the headlights on. if that's him he'll blink his headlights. this guy said he was coming alone. why did i believe him? camera crew or not, this seems like a bad idea. >> my voice is going to be disguised, right? >> absolutely. >> and i'm going

people that black people can use against black people and it's just not true. that's never been the case. >> i reject that. >> you can reject it all you want, it doesn't mean it's true. >> so explain what you mean because i'm confused. >> so, if a white person made a call, they should be called for, the firing. the language and the ownershipor allows black people, and and -- on top of the fact, it seems very interesting to me that we are attempting to make kanye some deity -- >> i didn't say that in my monolog. >> it seems very accurate because in early 2,000, conservatives were not out here saying george bush was not for black people. >> and i made that point the other night. >> so we are being very hypocritical in this room if wet are going to sit here and pretend that kanye west is now a saving grace of our republican party. we might be disparaging them from making similar accusations. >> you are right, i was doing my shut up and sing moment and the reason i'm looking at this issue today is because i think people are desperate for solutions. it doesn't matte

black -- black women's activism. we are going to look at mooney, and her memoir. we are also going to look at a chapter you all read from my book "beauty shop politics." we will look at chapter five, talking about the civil rights movement. i want to start with a place hwere -- where the work and research i have done intersex with ann moody. i open up the chapter in my book referring to an experience ann moodie had when she was in a sit in. i'll read briefly from an excerpt. it's on page 293 in this edition. in a sitfter she was in that turned violent. she says "before we were taken back to campus, i wanted to get my hair washed. dry mustard,with ketchup, and sugar. a beauty shop across the street from the naacp office. i lost my shoes when i was dragged across the floor at will worth. my stockings were sticking to my legs from the mustard that had dried. the hairdresser took one look at me and said you were in that city in, huh? do you havered, time to wash my hair and style it? right away, she said. there were thre

with over three hundred black owned businesses known as black wall street. in main one nine hundred twenty one the whole thirty five block neighborhood was obliterated by a white mob triggered by a false rumor that a black man had raped a white girl homes businesses schools and churches were burned and bombed and over one hundred people died. while a massacre after another and is sort of rolled across the country all of these riots where thousands of black people were killed if you study history you see that this is been a continuous. a continuous assault on black people yeah we we think there is a giant. and we think it needs to be met because i think it is a just response to america's history my family's. you know status and wealth has as has been has benefited from from their choice to enslave people the total number is staggering of whites who owned at least one black body you know it would have at least half at least half up the population white population i actually met recently the descent descendants of one of the people my family enslaved and found

this loan black councilman. by the time his district and then annexed and redrawn. >> host: what do you know. >> guest: he wasn't elected because now the majority of the people in his district, those were the ones who had voted against obama, over 70 percent. >> host: what the voting rights act was about, before you make a change like that where you got polarized voting and racial discriminatory feeling and you're about to make a radical change in the structure, you got to go to court to show it's not going to have a negative retrogressive impact. >> guest: absolutely. but there's none of that kind of minority impact. >> host: so what happens? >> guest: that case went to the supreme court and chief justice roberts wrote an opinion that will go down in infamy. and understand roberts lineage. roberts comes out of rehnquist. william rehnquist was his intellectual guide and rehnquist really began his career as a voter suppressor in arizona. >> he would go to the polls and challenge people's rights to vote. >> back k

that should not be a black issue. host: how would you rate the effort of democrats and are publicans to reach out to african-americans through their vote? guest: i think one party has done better than the other party , but has come up short. our interests go beyond political agenda. our interest is something that will make democracy better. ,quality interludes many because equality means someone has to give up power. the democratic party has struggled with that. to have a clear seat at the table for everyone is something give-- some people have to up room. that has been a struggle in the democratic party. have permanent interests. vehiclearty presents a to carry those interests, that is where we will be. that i can assure you if that interest is not carried by one or both of the parties, we will seek out another way to make sure there is inclusion at the table. is there a way to reach out about these issues and how they should be manifested? guest: we are talking to both parties about our interests. there are some rep

one more context question, the black hand -- what was the black hand society? victoria: at the time, the term mafia was not in use. so black hand -- nobody knows exactly where the term came from, but letters were often signed from the cecelia's, specific to the sicilian gangsters. the terrible black hand, it says on here. so apparently, some reporters got a hold of one of these stories in the letters and they called it the black hand. the headline is very dramatic. and then it sort of got co-opted by lots of different groups of gangsters, mostly sicilian, so i would say it is the generic mafia term of the time. it fell out of favor by the al capone type days when people were referring to it as the mafia, which has origins back in sicily. according to most reports. scott: i think black hand society sounds really cool. we should bring that back. william: much more fun. scott: the story takes place in ohio and pennsylvania, mostly, -- mostly in ohio -- but the oldfield family, your ancestors, were from ellicott city, maryland. ellicott city in the news recently wi

her research has centered around black theology and its relationship with political rhetoric and black political agendas. to the farthest on my right is larry perry ii, dr. larry s. perry ii, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture, in conjunction with georgetown's university department of african-american studies. he received his ph.d. in religious studies from the university of virginia. dr. perry's work focuses on the history of the american religious left, its thoughts, its thinkers, its politics, and its practices and current book project is entitled "a black spiritual leftist, howard thurman and the religious left, unfinished business of race relations". >> i will introduce myself last. i'm paul jones. i'm an associate professor of religious studies at the university of virginia. i teach and i research in the field of christian thought with a focus on protestant theology, western philosophy of religion, construction tryst theology. and scholarly work, the co-ed tore of the oxford handbook which will be published nex

what they are trying to do is send a message to any other black american or black conservative that supports the president, this is what we'll do to you if you are vocal about that support. jesse: wendy, what do you think about that? >> my problem is that he was given the ability to go to the oval office and he basically performed in ignorance. when he went there he could have talked to donald trump about what's going on in chicago, he could have talked about stop and frisk and he could have asked donald trump why he cut healthcare and education. >> i completely disagree. >> it's fine for you to disagree. i think the conservative party, the gop has to decide when is it okay for black athletes and performers to shupt and dribble or become the beacon of hope for your party. you can't have it both ways. jesse: he did bring up stop and frisk. he said he doesn't like to and frisk and told the president to knock it out. >> for you to call it a minstrel show you are doing what every other black person is doing. kanye west talked about the relationship between black people and the police. he talked

black people, are we only thinking about preserving black excellence, as we are calling it, or are we thinking about preserving even black imperfections? [applause] dr. kendi: and i would argue that we should preserve and present both. and i believe that preserving and preventing both, and acknowledging both, that is when we are truly acknowledging the humanity of black people, and simultaneously showing our equality with other racial groups who are fundamentally imperfect too. the difference is, when black people be acting out, that is somehow representative of all black people, but when white people act out, oh, that person is crazy. [laughter] dr. kendi: even though that is the imposition, i think as preservers and presenters, we can have a different perspective. ultimately, i argue from the beginning that what makes black people equal are our imperfections. i think it is critical for those who are preserving our lives to sort of reckon and recognize that. that doesn't mean that we just like, ok, you did that crazy thing, i love you, i'm not going to critique, but it is to say that

to a black convention about it. i think he was saying i, donald trump and no snow flake. i'm going to point out the problems of the black community and faith the threat to all of us and stand up there and rappel it. he doesn't talk about most of black america, clearly. >> but it's also true that an undeniable fact that so much of the disadvantage that has hurt black people and black families has come about as a result of policies in control for decades by the democrats. >> i don't think it's good to see mental illness exploited in that way. he has talked about mental illness and there has been some good points discussed, but let's keep it real in the field for the people who are watching. the simple fact that he went against what the black agenda or the black delegation told us we can and cannot say, anytime you have a disagreement or an opinion that's different on what the democratic establishment tells you what to do it, you are automatically ostracized. i've lost my contract based on what i said and one been told

black ball. >> laura: black ball. i used that today. >> whitewash. use whitewash, you will offend me. inmates running the asylum. >> laura: i used that yesterday. >> and one you talked about earlier. freshman.d >> laura: you can't say first year. >> because you are discriminating against women. >> laura: i thought it was like, don't be fresh, man. >> a new poll by a group called more in common. they found 80% of people, 80% found political correctness a problem. when you break it down by race, 79% of whites and 82% of asians and 87% of hispanics and 75% of african-americans think political correctness is a problem. >> laura: then, hate speech is a problem. >> 82% thought it was hate speech. >> laura: let's talk about neil patrick harris. >> speaking of the p.c. police. "the view" had a moment few caught the other day. actor, neil patrick harris, revealed he did his first film with whoopi goldberg and said this. >> i did my first movie ever with whoopi goldberg, a movie called "clara's heart." she told me -- she told me i was what, 15, 16 years old. s

sixty three percent black most of our elected officials are black but yet the disparity between income between white families and black families is still one of the highest in america this is fells point it's a very white neighborhood. wants to show me that even after racial segregation officially ended baltimore is still divided into rich white and poor black areas. eight here. you know drink here. actually there restaurant right there during opening day of the baseball season. i was actually called a nigger there. i come here knowing that me being here is. kind of a disruption to like the everyday whiteness i love doing and i love making people uncomfortable with my presence. you see the way the police patrol certain blocks of this neighborhood as a way to protect and you go up a couple blocks up the street the police are there to enforce yeah you can you tell the difference you can tell the difference because the police here this is a space where drunken why people are allowed to have a good tom be drunk and it's written off up the street standing on a corner the police are there yo

that should not be a black issue. host: how would you rate the effort of democrats and are publicans to reach out to african-americans through their vote? guest: i think one party has done better than the other party , but has come up short. our interests go beyond political agenda. our interest is something that will make democracy better. ,quality interludes many because equality means someone has to give up power. the democratic party has struggled with that. to have a clear seat at the table for everyone is something give-- some people have to up room. that has been a struggle in the democratic party. have permanent interests. vehiclearty presents a to carry those interests, that is where we will be. that i can assure you if that interest is not carried by one or both of the parties, we will seek out another way to make sure there is inclusion at the table. is there a way to reach out about these issues and how they should be manifested? guest: we are talking to both parties about our interests. there are some rep

% black. that is completely unacceptable. i did not hear anything from hennessy addressing that. so i think the solutions are clear. no new jail and less cops on the street and more housing and more supportive programming. >> thank you. next speaker. if there are folks in the overflow room who do wish to speak, they should come up and take their place in line. >> hello. i completely support all of the demands of the no new jail coalition. i am speaking for myself. we need to not just simply reduce the jail population. for instance, today, we had heard that because people are delaying their trials, they are clogging up the jails and adding to the beds. so justice and reducing the numbers are not necessarily going to go in hand. we know that blacks are still ten times overrepresented in the jails. the people in who are released from emergency, 40% of them, psych services get no referrals to additional health and this not only is does not solve the problem, but they also lead to suicides. so i th

because you got more black folks in here doing a black folks role than anybody else doing us wrong. so we'll talk about everything. you understand? because see it's two type of coons. you gotta educate a coon that think they know it all -- mm-hmm -- and you have to uneducated coon that don't know much of nothing. well i'm both. [laughter] and i'm sick of it. i had to quit my job from park and rec from being bullied for six years. i'm the only one out there doing something and you have someone like jackie battle, or whatever category you want to put her in. didn't even acknowledge me as i sit there and do everything out there at hunter's point without no pay. without no money. but then when they kill mario woods, i said something. i wasn't on their payroll that day. i wasn't in their uniform that day. and they been black balling me every since. so, i quit. because let me tell you something. i'm 'hood and i do retaliation and you ain't scaring me and i'm not running and go make no [inaudible] which i did go to e.o.c., i went to the union, i went to h.r. department and park and rec. ne

because he is black -- racist because he is black. but then they crack the code. you must ignore kanye west, he explains to the rest of us because he is a traitor to his race. watch this. >> what i saw was a mental show today. him in front of the white people, mostly white people embarrassing himself. embarrassing americans but mostly african-americans. now all of a sudden he is the person who represents the african-american community? he doesn't. this was an embarrassment. his mother is rolling over in her grave. >> tucker: there you go. that his skin color means he is required to behave in a very specific way. if he chooses to behave in any other way he should be punished. because according to don lemon, his race is his destiny and it defines everything about him. people used to talk like this 50 years ago as they defended racial segregation of the american south. what a surprise to learn they are still talking that way. this time it's on cnn. michael eric dieson went even further. for the crime of being friendly with a politician he doesn't like, he says kanye

for the blacks. when you take black on black baltimore is see at the highest but nobody talks about it. president trump is giving jobs to black people. also, [indiscernible] by 2040 there will be more hispanics in this country than any other race. our black folk are going to remain -- host: you would vote for republicans this year. you will vote for larry hogan for reelection? caller: he is a good governor. host: been jealous is the nominee. what do you make of his candidacy? caller: i would like to see some other candidates in maryland. i am tired of maryland keep voting for democrats over and over again. host: thank you for calling. dwight is on the line. hey dwight. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm calling from california here . you are talking about 2018 midterm elections. we have a few propositions on our ballot. vote will be looking at the problems. host: what are the top couple of things you have your eye on? caller: california is one of the most taxed states in the country. ourre loo

there are counties in mississippi that a majorityri black where there are no black registeredck voters. zero. in other counties there may be one. i mean it is, and when they were trying to register folks to vote, we do with bob moses coming down to mississippi, before freedom summer, and he's driving around and he's getting beaten on the courthouse steps for registering, trying to register black people to vote. when herbert lee is killed by a state senator, then when lewis allen is killed because he saw the state senator gil herbert lee. then, then people are dying like snipes. people are dying for the right to vote. when we get to selma, this has been a long, ongoing battle, and indigenous battle, that they were getting wore out. the student nonviolent coordinating committee came in and they are hammering and sheriff jim clark is not moving. he's proud of himself. then nclc comes in and we start getting the churn, the beatings. that moment on the edmund pettus bridge, it took decades of struggle. we've got, we don't know how many bodies there are. this wasn't high, high, we neee right

and trump was meeting with a black leader to deal with black issues and this shows the connection to the community. do you accept that? >> no. it was not on display. kanye west has a right to opinion and support whoever he wants to support. chris, this is really a lack of judgment, empathy, leadership. on president donald trump. in the wake of what happened with hurricane michael. with hundreds and thousands of people suffering across many states. georgia the carolinas. and also we're dealing with the devastation that happened in puerto rico and the virgin islands. kanye west doesn't represent all of the african american community. we're treated like that by many politicians. that was a really very sad day for the country. this president needs his ego-stroked every single day. and instead of him taking time to visit the places to talk to same people that you're talking to tonight and having empathy for our sisters and brothers in need, he is there having a love fest with kanye west. there's a right time and place for everything. that certainly what happened today certainly was not th

black start capability? no one? if anyone could find that out i would appreciate it because i want to know how vulnerable we are. we have had some historical blackouts and challenges over the years. we could be in a dire situation and i'm concerned about the rihanna liability of the grid of black start. >> i can give you more information. we actually contract pjm contracts on behalf of the region with 25% of the uso we look at the plan, say how much do we need and issue long-term or yearly or multiyear contracts to secure it. i can tell you from pgm we secure what we think we need based on black start client and again, not to say we are done. there is more to do. i think you will diversity is an issue meaning we have been overdependence on one type, but i will tell you we do feel we have-- >> in your system, pgm basically takes care my state of west virginia and a couple things i want to address as far as 2009 the average price-- natural average electricity was 9.82 cents per kilowatt hour and in west virginia it wa