king, malcolm x, rustin, ella baker. just somebody with a deep love for poor black people and a deep love for social justice. >> how much of his past versus the path of king we know so well and we'll come to what's understood about stokely all these years later but how much of the path he chose versus king had to do with his age. king is only 39 like malcolm. they're both dead at 39, young people. yet king was seen as old, passe, beyond his time. by the black power generation. how much of it has to do with his age. >> a lot of it. he's 19 when arrested for the first time in mississippi. june 8 sh 1961. he's a young man. by the time he's a black power icon, he's 24 in the clip. he goes to africa, london, cuba at 25, 2 years old. hanging out with dr. king, dr. benjamin spock, fidel castro. he's 24, 25, 26 years old. that's an amazing life. and he becomes the leader of a youth movement that's not just black. white, too. people like tom hayden will talk about stokely's influence. students for a democratic society and stokely

ella baker said this isn't about lunch counters or hamburgers. this is about democracy.es baldwin writes in 1961 that the young people who are organizer and in demonstrations all across the south at lunch counters are doing it to do more than what baldwin calls sip tasteless cups of coffee at sleazy lunch counters across the south. that is james baldwin not we. what is important when we think about stokely carmichael and the civil rights movement and where we are today in the context of american race relations and civil rights and citizenship is that kwame ture provides an example of a life well-lived. he is not a hedgefund leader. he didn't invent the i-phone. but provided millions of poor black people hope. he did it through organizing for small democracy a political revolution and calling for black power and black self-determination. the whole idea of black is beautiful is impossible without stokely carmichael. the whole idea of sell determination and black people thinking of themselves in way that that in the 1960s were profoundly impossible in some ways. that they w

it continues, ella baker, martin luther king jr.p to today, the influence of michelle alexander, on and n. as ella baker said of martin luther king, martin did not make the movement. the movement made martin. we have plenty to do to put our shoulders on the wheel of improving our lives and the lives of others. [applause] >> the debate has taken an interesting turn because we sometimes hear the phrase american exceptionalism. what you have been hurting today is that in a way, we are talking about two types of exceptionalism. if i were to talk about great americans, i would talk about the wealth creators, benjamin franklin, edison, steve jobs. i think those guys collectively have done more than all the redistributed combined. i'm not saying there is not room for both. i'm trying to put priority where it belongs. when it comes to tough issues, how to get the country, slavery, it's time to talk a little bit of sense. i think we are at a moment now where we can do that without resulting, without mere slogans. 90% of american indians were

as ella baker said of martin luther king, martin did not make the movement.he movement made martin. we have plenty to do to put our shoulders on the wheel of improving our lives and the lives of others. [applause] >> the debate has taken an interesting turn because we sometimes hear the phrase american exceptionalism. i think one thing you have been hearing today is that in a way, we are talking about two types of exceptionalism. for example if i were to talk , about great americans, i would talk about the wealth creators, benjamin franklin, edison, steve jobs. i think those guys collectively have done more than all the redistributers combined. i'm not saying there is not room for both. i'm just trying to put priority where it belongs. when it comes to tough issues as a country, slavery it is time to , talk a little bit of sense. i think we are at a moment now where we can do that without resulting, without mere slogans. 90% of american indians were murdered? genocide? actually, that is not true. the white man came to america and brought with him, unwittingly

over 400 years there has never been a person from john brown to nat turner to ella baker who was told the truth about white supremacy and its connection to capitalism to was not targeted chronically, systematically across the board. that is where you had to have your spirit intact. it it intact and a secular way. people say whatever they want. i have my integrity to preserve. how do you bear witness? that is what the arc or crimes against humanity nasa says. those are crimes against humanity. a working-class abuse, while, and is a crime against humanity. the drones dropping bombs on innocent children. crimes against humanity. just call it for what it is. using that kind of language of just did you in trouble. it can get you killed. >> one last thought about this, and maybe there is a product of tension. we don't know where we are in the revolutionary process. you all know that afterwards. was it the right time, was it possible, where the conditions in place? part of what it means to be a critic in the spirit of tom paine is that you have always cut to push. you have got to push to see

. 400 years there has never been a person from john brown on the vanilla side to nat turner, to ella baker, who were told the truth.white supremacy and its connection to capitalism who was not targeted, systematically, chronically, across the board, and that's why you had to have your spirit intact. you can get it intact in secular way, or people say whatever you want. i got my life to live. i got my integrity to reserve. and how do you bear witness in the face of those kinds of lies and those kinds of crimes? and that's what they are. they're crimes against humanity. the new jim crow, the crime against humanity. the education systems in the cities, those are crimes again humanity the way those precious children are treated. working class abused. that's a crime against humanity. and the drones dropping bombs on innocent children, vicious crimes against humanity in the name of the u.s. people. just call it for what it is. but using that kind of lange just get you in trouble but can get you killed. one last thought about this. and maybe there's a productive penchant between brother cornell a

so many of the strategic people of previous movements are folks we never saw on camera, ella baker and bob moses, people whose names we may not even have remembered into 30, 40, 50 years later. so how do you do that? how do you do the work when there are no cameras of building that strategy, not just an action. >> well, you know, that's what we've done in north carolina, the moral movement. we've been at this over seven years and 70 weeks. even when cameras weren't there. it's not just marchers. you have to have the marchers and those marchers, i believe, come in in the daytime. they should be diverse. we should be focusing on different communities like mothers and men and children. but in addition to that we need to be holding hearings are where people can articulate the litany of pain. it is locking people in the ghetto, denying economic opportunity and all of those things. and then further, melissa, i think you drive this point home, we have to have what i would call calling the community to build political power and not along with street protests. so we've got to register people to