[applause] [applause] >> brother carl dix, brother carl dix, it is good to see a revolutionary communist in the flesh, isn't it? i want to say that i'm blessed to be here. coming to uc berkeley as like i'm coming home. i grew up in sacramento california, right down the road. my brother cliff d. wells held the mile record for freshman 30 years, part of the 1972 ncaa track championship team with brothers like eddie hart and isaac curtis and when i come to berkeley i'm fired up before again and to a lectern. and i want to thank my dear brother carl dix. a lot of people ask me, why do you spend so much time on revolutionary communism, and prophetic and prophetic buddhas and at nokia's and atheist. you're nothing but a holy ghost black baptist brother. i say yeah, i am a jesus loving man. and they come from a tradition that says let every voice, and if you have the courage to ask for truth you're going to have to listen to every voice because no individual, no group has a monopoly on truth. when you to listen to one another and learn from one another. we have got to organize and mobilize toge

[laughter] and i want to thank my brother carl dix. a lot of people asking why dispense with some of revolution and communism, revolutionary anarchists and prophetic jews and prophetic buddhist and prophetic hindus and all those agnostic and atheist. you know you nothing but a funky holy ghost black brother. i said yes, i'm a jesus loving freak black man. and i come from a tradition that says lift every to life. and if you have the courage to act in truth you have to listen to every voice because no individual, no group has a monopoly on truth. we need to listen to one another and learn from one another if we're going to organize and mobilize together. [applause] i work with prophetic mormons if you want to talk about corporate greed and wealth inequality and the role of big money and politics an arbitrary military power and arbitrary police power has to do with what kind of human being you really are, what are you willing to sacrifice for. so if you are committed to truth, and the condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and

brother carl dix made the same point. people wake up at different times. malcolm little, took them a while to wake up, didn't it? but when that negro woke up, became a free black man, he woke up, is that right quick dinner and the time you hadn't woken up? oh, you've, you fully alert now. a beautiful thing. so the process, you know what a mean? little wayne might end up being on the cover for struggle for justice to give him time. get that brother time. you don't know. 50-cent might be on, might be on the cover. you don't know. you got to love him, no matter what. >> we want to, first of all, show our speakers extra love for all of their energy. [applause] >> and professor taylor, professor taylor, professor taylor. to make. >> we love you, professor taylor. professor clark, the late professor barbara christin. we will never forgive you, barbara, never, never. how you doing, my brother? >> brother carl dix has dared us to help your brother cornel west has encouraged us to understand that justice is what love looks like. on behalf of the department of afric