you know he came up with the brooklyn dodgers. the brooklyn dodgers automatically became african-americans' favorite team in america. it didn't matter where they lived, who they rooted for, what league they rooted for, they automatically rooted for the brooklyn dodgers. sang thing is happening here with integration, folks may not be doing as well. and here's the other force, right? bitterness and hatred becomes dangerously close, perilously close to advocating violence expressed in the various black nationalist groups springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being elijah muhammad's muslim movement which included malcolm x who was basically the most well-known minister of the nation of islam. >> what about the other side to this, the idea that many of the wealthier black citizens considered the members of the movement to be just making trouble? do you remember that? >> what do you think -- go ahead. good question, casey. what do you all think about that?

you know he came up with the brooklyn dodgers. they automatically became african-americans favorite team in america. it didn't matter where they lived, what league they rooted for, they automatically rooted for the brooklyn dodgers. same thing happened here. with integration maybe these folks wouldn't be doing so well. bitterness and hay treatred bec dangerously close. the largest and best known being elijah muhammad's muslim movement which included malcolm x. >> what about the other side to this? the idea that many of the wealthier black citizens consider the members of the movement to be just making trouble. do you remember that? >> good question. what do you all think about that? >> what did they mean? their own people t same rights they would need but these wealthier people with the same -- you would think the same problems, but they are calling the members of the movem

jackie robinson was playing second base for the brooklyn dodgers. the first corvette was created. i was just a twinkle in my father's eye. maybe a double twinkle in my father's eyes. and majority leader dean skelos was only 4 years old. but a dapper lad he was, wasn't he? speaker silver was only 8 years old. but even at 8, speaker silver was speaker silver. but what is very heartening is that even then you should know they were both working together hand in hand in a spirit of bipartisanship. let's give them a round of applause. [ applause ] 2011 will go down in the history books as an extraordinary success. and the members of the legislature should be very proud of what they accomplished. unfortunately that wasn't the only story of 2011. 2011 was also a very challenging year for the state in many, many ways. especially outside of albany. we had a terrible situation with tropical storm lee and hurricane irene that caused terrible damage in parts of the state that could really least afford it. the mid hudson, the north county, the southern tier sustained terrible damage. but maybe