i still work with the people at the lansing street. we u facilitate groups and work with residents when they reached three months prior to leaving clancy street. they start looking jobs -- looking for jobs and housing. i try to help them out. it is important to get yourself situated and feel supported. as an out gay male who did not have a big support system, i think it is important to build that foundation. thank you very much for listening. supervisor kim: thank you. and i also see that you have served in south beach. >> yes, we have a very active leadership council. supervisor kim: thank you. next, we have ronnie muniz. after that, robert kane. >> good afternoon. my name is ronnie muniz, and my qualifications are i have done to terms in four different prisons. what i was incarcerated, i took my ged so i could get out and go to college and amount to something. i try the drug and alcohol certificate class's, then i got a passion for doing faith-based work. i created a faith-based organization. i help people get housing, drug programs,

i gave this speech at the speech contest down and the capital of michigan, in east lansing. it was a speech exposing the private organizations in the u.s. could still discriminate on the basis of race. this was in the early 1970's. you could still have caucasian one -- the elks club was whites only. a lot of these men's groups were whites only groups. i just thought that was wrong. so i give a speech about it. the next thing i knew, it was on the associated press and on the evening news and national networks that this 17-year-old was speaking out against racism in private clubs. and the whole thing's sort of snowballed. by the next year, there were lawsuits and bills introduced in congress. and these private groups all have to change their ways and they could no longer be whites only organizations. and that was just, i was not the only one doing this, but it was a big push that started when i gave the speech in east lansing, michigan. a dangerous lesson to teach a teenager that just by writing down three pages of paper or what i wanted to say have this impact. again, i am goi

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november they won the state house and the governor's race and they held on to the state senate so during their time in charge in lansing michigan republican lawmakers have had to make a drastic budget cuts to deal with the state's finances and one area they're targeted is spending on education lawmakers have cut a billion dollars from school budgets which has caused a massive outcry from teachers unions state politicians both to cut funding to local schools where schools will just close it even further. which politicians love to treat school employees like punching bags these days. teachers and school support staff sharing and state sacrifice. the republican lawmakers weren't happy about the pushback of the efforts by teachers unions to recruit new members and this debate comes after another attempt by conservative michigan activists he tried to use the freedom of information act to obtain the e-mails of teachers in the state and he claimed to be looking for e-mails that mention fund raising for teachers unions or lobbying on state computers of the court system stop the freedom of nation after class so now g.o.p. lawma

the sun? >> host: all right, lansing, thank you so much. >> guest: it's my belief that this great migration that occur inside the 20th century was a water shed event that helped bring us to a point where legalized caste system as it had existed for so long, for three or four generations, was no longer legally on the books. that was a major change in our history. the next migration or the next journey, i believe, has to be spiritual. in other words, the goal is to find our own place in the sun. there are no other suns. i mean, we have lived everywhere in the country. so now it becomes an issue of recognizing our common humanity with other americans, with all americans that all americans recognize that we are one in this situation whatever it might be, the economic crisis, other crises that we might experience, and that we all need each other, and we have so much more in common than we've been led to believe. when it come toss the younger generation, the goal of the book is to get all of us talking about what people hadn't talked about. i grew up as the child of people who had done this very thing

it was the it was the social compact that my dad grew up in where and my friends i grew up in lansing michigan have my friends of parents working girls and you know my dad worked until it died and although he mostly did the bookkeeping but you know he worked until the age of thirty three and and if you had a high school diploma. really years of college and and you worked hard you know kept your nose clean you got a good paycheck you could buy a house you could buy a new car every couple years you got a pension you got full health care you had healthy retirement those things were like given that ended in the eighty's it has it has been slowly ending and now what we see is that what used to be the american dream of being in that middle class and that was very much the product of government policies very high rich is taxes on rich people so that c.e.o.'s basically never took more than thirty times but there were other workers were making it was so if i take it it would be taxed and and trade policies that kept jobs in america that has gone away and now it's like you have not the right to

the phone. i did not go on tv that night, but at some point it went on tv, and today in lansing, michigan, a 17-year-old boy gave a speech that took on the elks club and their segregationist practices, shedding light on the fact that it is still legal for private clubs in this country to discriminate on the basis of race. the next day the dorm phone rang off the hook. everybody, again, another associated press reporter, two tv networks, the naacp, a paper in new york, another in chicago. unless it involved them offering me free food or an introduction to a girl i might like, i did not want to be bothered. i took none of the calls. my parents were waiting outside in the car to take me back home. this much i'll say, my parents were not unhappy with my actions. when i got home, the phone continued to ring. finally, a call from the office of michigan senator phil hart. he wanted to talk to me about coming to washington. the aide said it was something about a bill that would be introduced t-bill to outlaw discrimination by private entities. a congressman would be calling me to testify in front of a c

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the president's remarks are 25 minutes. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> hello, denver. [cheers and applause] what a beautiful day. thank you so much. how is it going, lansing i heard you had a pretty good all team. that's the story i've heard. [cheers and applause] will listen, there's a couple people here i want to acknowledge who are just outstanding public servants. first of all, a hometown hero is now one of the best secretaries of the interior that we've ever had. ken salazar. [cheers and applause] one of the best governors in the country, john hankin looper. [cheers and applause] two outstanding senators, mark udall. [cheers and applause] and michael bennet. [cheers and applause] congresswoman diana dig at. [cheers and applause] congressmen ed perlmutter. your own hometown mayor, michael hancock. [cheers and applause] and former friend -- current friend, former mayor and one of the finest public servants in colorado history, frederico pena. [cheers and applause] so it is good to be back in colorado, especially on a gorgeous day late is. it's always like this in late september, is an? absolutely. it's an honor to be here at lincoln high school. [cheer

the mass public. host: again you can communicate with us by phone, twitter, and here's a comment from twitter. that is how she finishes off. you can send us your thoughts on twitter as well. lansing, mich. again, a parent to there, thank you for calling. caller: i am concerned here in michigan with the layoffs, the $300 million deficit, and they appointed two emergency financial managers. there seems to be waste and fraud and abuse in accountability. i would like to see how no child left the chat -- no child left behind enforced in court and not left to the states. host: so your state is not up to the challenge? caller: that is correct. host: can you give us more specifics? caller: we have a lot of administrators, a superintendent, with the governor that has recently left office, she had controlled for years. they took out almost $1 billion but still we maintained a deficit. the should have file for bankruptcy protection and we would not be in this situation. it does not make sense for kids to go to school and not have supplies and toilet paper. it was a bunch of nonsense. host: the ranking member of the education committee had this to say about obama's decision when it came to t