was always in some ways if you look at king and malcolm definitely from a working-class family, fred hampton who i am a huge fan of, very much working class families and even if you look all over the world, the power and impact of unions and radicalizing people and making them sort of want to understand what their rights are and what their rights should be and that is what is missing because ultimately what to talk about is isolation of people and that is i think the greatest danger for the community now because we are isolated from one another, rich verbivore and that is true for the entire country but that to me is where the messiah figure comes up short. we can't produce it any more. >> [inaudible] >> thank you for sharing with us tonight. in the last question you touched on this issue and that is barack obama campaigned didn't say anything specific to what people except the most part of some personal responsibility [inaudible] other groups he served specific things. it seems like he [inaudible] i'm also sure when we talk about black people and all this -- he talked about this and said we

was always in some ways if you look at king and malcolm who was directly a working-class family, fred hampton who i am a huge fan of, very much working-class families and even if you look at all for the bold you look at the impact of unions and radicalizing people and making them sort of want to understand what their rights are and what their rights should be and that is what is missing because ultimately what you talk a bit is isolation of people and that is the greatest danger for the community now is we are isolated from one another rich from poor and that is true the entire country but that to me is where the messiah comes up short. we can't produce it anymore. >> good evening. thank you for sharing your thoughts tonight. in the last question you touched on this issue and that is the obama campaign did i say anything specific to black people except he took responsibility for issues. r specific things so that it seems like i'm also sure that you talk about all of this [inaudible] we just want to make sure the taxes are not cut for us so my question is to the extent we talk about how the di

but fred hampton talked about as being reactionary fighting fire with fire, you don't fight fire with fire you fight with walter, racism with solidarity, you fight capitalistic system that uses people as tools. you fight that with a capitalist system that uses -- that turns the equation upside-down and uses the economy as an instrument of the people. so anyway, i say that to talk a little bit about sort of who we are, where we are going and raise the question whether or not barack obama is this transformative leadership that we need or is it more reactionary and transactional. robert read the first chapter of his grandmother. i'm going to read from the last chapter about a young man named lee alexander south africa, 28 and he married a young african-american woman from chicago, and he -- this chapter begins basically when barack obama is about to accept the nomination for president at the 2008 convention in denver and there is a group of people about ten people mostly black but not all some blacks and whites and a few arab, and we are watching television as barack obama takes the stag

in some ways if you look at king or malcolm who was definitely from a working class family -- fred hampton whom you know i'm a huge fan of. very much working class families. and even if you look at all over the world, you know, you look at some of the power and the impact of unions and radicalizing people and making them sort of want to fight, understanding what their rights are and what their rights should be. and that's what's missing, i think, in this. ultimately what you're talking about is this isolation of people. i think that's the greatest danger for our community now is that we're isolated from one another. rich from poor and that's true for the entire country. but that to me is sort of where the messiah figure comes up short. we can't really produce them anymore. [inaudible] >> good evening. thank you for sharing your thoughts tonight. in the last question you touched on this issue. and that is when barack obama campaigned, it didn't seem as if he really said anything specific to black people except for the most part -- take some responsibility for your issues. other groups he sp