please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. jennifer? [applause] >> thank you, john, and thanks, all of you, for being here for our book event on "black and tired. essays on race, politics and international development by dr. anthony bradley. a few days ago here in washington, d.c. hurricane irene pushed back the official dedication of the new memorial to dr. martin luther king. but the silver line anything that hurricane -- lining in that hurricane is that the delay appropriately extends our focus on dr. king's civil rights legacy and the work of those who since him have strived to make all god's children truly free at last. well, dr. anthony bradley is one of those freedom seekers. as the title of his new book conveys, "black and tired," he's not satisfied with the progress to date. although for reasons you may not often hear about. as the essays in this book show with titles like devaluing the family, hip-hop's delusional god talk and green booze led, anthony bradley is a scholar with wide-ranging interests. his academic pedigree show

senior director of family studies at the family research council.je please join me in welcoming jennifer marshall. [applause]ok >> thank you for being here at for this book the event on "black and tired" essays on race, politics, culture, and international development" by anthony bradley a few days ago hurricane irene pushed back the official dedication of the new memorial to dr. martin luther king but the silver lining is the delay appropriately extends k our focus on the civil-rights legacy and the work of since then have strive to make all god's children truly free at last. dr. bradley is one of those freedom seekers. as the title conveys, "black and tired" he is not satisfied with the progress. although for reasons you may not hear about.luin as the essays show like devaluing the family and her pop delusional talk, anthony bradley is a scholar with a wide ranging and tristan his academic pedigrees shows that as well with his undergraduate-- britain degree -- undergraduate degree is in science andry a also from the seminary in t theology and today teaches at a christian a liberal arts school,

let's ask our political panel, liberal radio talk show host leslie marshall is here, "new york post" columnist jenniferreat to see all of you. leslie, since you came all the way from california, let me start with you down there at the end. >> good morning. >> i have a feeling that you'll say obama's plan is a good one and what boehner said is wrong and boehner should be compromising. >> absolutely. one thing i have to say out of all the republicans, i have to give him this props. if anybody were able to compromise, it would be boehner and honestly, i think he needs more backbone with his party and has to decide is he going to work with the american public and the democrats or is he going to bow down to the tea party faction of the g.o.p.? the thing that really irks me on this is i am waiting, as an american who happens to be a democrat for a jobs bill for the republicans, for a jobs bill, a specific comprehensive jobs bill from mr. boehner and i'm not seeing that. it's easy to say this is what won't work but what will work and we are hearing from economists across the board, even people who worked in t