one causes which you might call the booker t. washington approach. booker t. shington was a major educator, first back figure invited to@at the white house with resident theodore roosevelt. booker t. washington essentially argued that blacks in order to drive me to accept segregation and build their own institutions within their own world. it was futile to fight the massive structures of segregation. and of course you have to understand this was a time when the were quite common. another figure, w.e.b. du bois disagreed vehemently with booker t. washington. he argued blacks in the civil rights movement had to be much more aggressive, which were at a. they have to become troublemakers and organize everywhere they could. it was the voice he came up with the concept of the attempt. by that he meant the black community as a whole needed to identify the cream of the crop, the best and brightest among the black community and get them to be a vanguard for the movement, to lead the charge, to decide what happened when anti-dissent attacked eczema strategies and so fort

. >> commissioners, i'm president of the booker t. washington center. i will keep my comments brief. both sides opposed to the tasers, i saw evidence of abuse. on the pro tasers, i saw anecdotes and role plays. it did not seem like a debate. you have facts on one side and desires and anecdote on the other side. it was mentioned a few times that the only time it should be used is in situations -- it was mentioned earlier that [unintelligible] there is one thing that has not been talked about tonight. looking to the disproportionate impact on communities of color. it's happening with tasers, too. the only time is really rational is -- it came up a few times. the last point is about the budget. there is the republican congressman in the state of ohio. there is probably not one republican on the commission and we are considering this. it seems irresponsible to me. i am here to emphatically ask you to oppose the taser and ask you to stop studying tasers. thank you. >> i'm a triple-bypass about two years ago. i would be at risk. former mayor newsome and the f

only two names were in the encyclopedia, and that was booker t. washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of sepa

i look forward to working with the community and with the booker t. washington to move this forward. clerk calvillo: thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i also added my name to pass some legislation. this is very personal to me. not only members of my family, but many people i have worked with have been detrimentally affected by a lack of access for financial aid for higher education opportunities, and it has really stopped the dreams of a lot of young people, not being able to go to college -- college. i am excited to support that. i also want to thank supervisors -- supervisor campos. it has been a huge challenge. i think with this new system put in place, it will really allow young people to go back and forth between schools, not just families, but we have many new turn a team while they are attending public schools, and then they have to jump to pay $60 just to go back and forth from school and home -- but we have many who turned 18 while they are attending public school was. i want to close today's meeting in memory of a person wh

i would read the civil-rights leaders, martin luther king, booker t. washington.would read about them for fun. my mother would take me to the library, and those would be the books that i would pick out, because i guess i wanted to be inspired by great leaders who did great things, and black leaders made me proud to see black people do something amazing that made the world change, so i cared about that as a kid. i cared about civil rights and social justice, the idea that the world can be changed and made better by people who are willing to take risks and fight for what is right. i have always believed inbev, and that has left me interested in what is going on -- and i a always believed in that. that has left be interested in what is going on -- and i always believed. it is something i have always paid attention to. i have grown in stature and in the public consciousness, and giving me more opportunities to speak out, but i have always been thinking about it, and i have an interest in what is going on politically. tavis: i personally think that dr. king is the grea

. >> mining is julien davis, president over at the booker t. washington community center. i wanted to congratulate conditioner -- commissioner maufas. i want to request that you do something about the situation with tameesha and other seniors being dismissed in the middle of their school year as a result of the amnesty program. the overriding consideration of disrupting students in the middle of their school year, especially high school, where the year long experience goes to a college experience, where you think about things in terms of semesters -- the seniors especially. for jameesha, her final year in school, it seems unfair to cut that off and separate her from her school community with just a few months left to go. i know it is in your power to issue a directive, something of that sort. hopefully, tonight that would allow you to address at least the problem with the seniors, but i think with the other age students as well. it has always been an issue. i would like you to look, if you can, more broadly. i would echo some of the thoughts reverend townsend have -- had a

. >> i actually did, and more so in the collection like booker t. washington, where there were always these public appeals to help this student, you know, pay for her scholarship. yeah, i mean, i did come across those but not so much from parents. mainly the people who were being reached out to to help with students who are trying to stay in college. >> over here, hi. you've written other books, and i wonder if from one the other books did he give you the idea that fell into this book ?-que?-quex was a connection or something like that? what made you to start a something like this because i think it's wonderful. >> thank you for that insightful question. people see the range of my work and they say, how did you get from being a journalist to writing about race in immediate and writing about art to a collection of african-american love letters? it seems to make no sense, and it makes a lot of sense. i think it's because i spent so many years as a journalist as a daily journalist, struggling to try to present this multidimensional culture of black life. it's suc

i mean, look at what brilliant black educators like booker t. washington and george washington carver did around the tush -- turn of the century. look how far we came from emancipation to civil rights with no resources, and look at all the resources that we have today, the proud, rich legacy of african-american scientists and educators and leaders. and there's no reason we can't commit to attack this problem of dropout rates in our community and commit to make sure ourselves -- and i want to make sure, this is ron kirk speaking, this is not the obama administration, this is not arne duncan. as a community i think it's time for us to say to ourselves in the next 20 years, in the next 30 years, nine out of ten african-american boys and girls are going to graduate high school, and they're going to have experience, they're going to have the right to go to college, or they're going to have the skills to get a job. [applause] now, i'm not giving anybody else a pass, but we have to accept this challenge as a community to do that. and that means you're going to ha