this got to witness christopher chambers a blogger at not turner's revenge and lecture georgetown university chris thanks so much for being here tonight. obviously there's a lot of statistics that you could point to it's a large discussion to have but i think that it's really so powerful especially considering this anniversary you think that there are more black men within the prison system here in the u.s. than ever than than were enslaved back in eight hundred fifty i mean how do you how do you presume to go it's a scary scary slow. one hundred fifty years or two hundred fifty years or fifty or eighty years where the black middle. and serving private. free enterprise in the states you are doing slave labor. it's a question of value it really did value we african americans back then and now and that's that's the connection because if you're devalued whether you're three fifths of a person or look down upon it in an underground economy basically you know with days what with the war on drugs that stuff back then and now basically destroy. royce your self-worth and that's like a cosmic ripple effect

entire african continent has maybe a few hundred western restaurant journalists georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers is here to talk about all of this chris you know if you're trying to figure out what moammar gadhafi has been up to lately or tornadoes or tornadoes he hasn't been really easy but you know if you want to know what shoes the duchess was wearing we're going to use by the way. what's going on here well it fits the pattern of modern media in the twenty first century of this carnival model carnival side show if it fits all those categories because now it does hearken back i mean believe it or not there is a pedigree here because william's grandmother is coronation one hundred fifty two was the first mass media t.v. event post-war so really you have this this is this this genetic procession to today now that's all blown away of course by social media b.c. had an app on and on and i pad for the stuff that you could buy it was ridiculous but it really does fit this role of carnival side show of distraction of ratings builder i mean it's so it's really that it's really more killing bu