. >> fred hampton used chalabi say get the people to say i am a revolutionary. he would get them to say that over and over and over again and one of the things that happened is historically we have diminished that period as them being somewhat misguided, frivolous and what fred hampton and the black panther party did was you know if that was so diminished and not so powerful, how come they created -- and attacked all those people over and over and over again. because what they did, the black panther party, fred hampton, they did a critique of capitalism and even our greatest scholars who supposedly are progressive, they don't really do a critique of capitalism and that is one thing that happened with king and when you listen to all his speeches and malcolm. that is what they started to do and evolution was a critique of capitalism. once you start doing that is where the danger happened. our black scholars, they don't really do that. you know you talk about black nationalism but a critique of capitalism is very dangerous. >> it is a worthy comment in the context

his sorry, we have diminished that period as them being somewhat misguided, frivolous, and what fred hamptonand the black panther party did, you know, if that was so diminished and not so powerful, how come they created and attacked all those people over and over again because what they did, the black panther party and fred hampton, they did a critique of capitalism, and even our greatest scholars who are progressive, they don't really do a critique of capital im, and that's one thing that happened with king when you listen to the speeches and malcolm, that's what they thought to do is a critique of capitalism, and once you start doing that, that's where the danger happens, and our black scholars don't really do that. you talk about black nationals and this, but a critique of capitalism is very dangerous. >> who'd like to grab that first? >> it's a worthy comment in the context of manning whose politics were, i think, part of his anxiety was about black nationals because he understood his politics rooted in a black socialist tradition. now, i will say, and this is -- i was thinking, realm, y

because what they do, the black panther party and fred hampton, they did a critique of capitalism and that's one thing that happened -- when you listen to all the speeches and malcolm that's what they started to do and the evolution was a critique of capitalism and what you start doing that, that's where the danger happened and our scholars -- our black scholars, they don't really do that. you know, you talk about black nationalism and this, a critique of capitalism is very dangerous. >> i mean, it's a worthy comment in the context of talking about manning marable whose politics -- i think part of his anxiety was black nationalism is precisely he understood his politics, rooted more in a black socialist tradition. now, i will say -- i want to ask manning, well, how do we do this? i was a graduate student and i was trying to get a job in the academy and one of the most powerful things manning ever did was teach me how to get what i needed from this institution. financially. people don't talk about it at all. they just act like you should get a job and be happy. manning you ask for this