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The final panel from this Years National black writers conference. Thank you for coming out this afternoon. We really, really, really are glad to see you here and glad you stayed over these four days. When i founded the center for black literature in 2003, one of the major goals was to host the National Black writer withs conference, and it was a vision of john oliver kilns who was poet and writer in residence at that time, and he would have been 100 years in january. He wanted to support the work of black writers by hosting programs and holding a conference every year. And we did this through the center for black literature where we have literary readings, workshops, symposia and Youth Programs for our students. Its called, our Youth Program is called reenvisioning our lives through literature. Weve continued to do this. And as i think over these last four days, i know John Oliver Killens would be smiling. I thank him for his visioning, and i thank all of you for coming together to celebrate the writers, to share with us in a discussion of how race impacts our lives and is reflect in our literature and to interrogate and develop a deeper understanding of the literary text that we produce. This years conference continues the tradition of ensuring that the text produced by black writers in the americas, asia, europe and africa, are known and read by the general public and are represented in our schools and libraries. We began on thursday morning with several hundred youth from grades three through high school. This auditorium was filled with young people. With scholarly presentations on the theme of the conference, a Program Featuring the elders. We also have a workshop featuring elders reading their workings. And we had works. And we had a town hall meeting on the role and responsibility of black institutions and black writers. We closed thursday with a poetry cafe with one of our partners, the brooklyn public library. On friday we continued with films with our partner african voices. , and we had our Opening Night with our honorary chair, reeder dove, and our awardwinning poets, Michael Weaver and roland phillips. Over the last two days, weve had panels and round tables on the topics decoded, hiphop, creating dangerously, the politics of race and gender, futurism and the book between the world and me. Publishing in the digital age, memory and creative writing programs as well as memoirs. Weve had talk shops on publishing, writing fiction, writing poetry and on book proposals. One of our goals is to expand the conference and to have satellite conferences around the country. We did this in february with a program on the conference theme at the multicultural center, multicultural conference which was held at Sacramento State university. And we want to expand our conferences to other places around the country. Our writers are our visionaries. Our voices of conscious. Our documentarians. I salute our honorary chair, rita dove, and our conference honorees, Michael Eric Dyson, Charles Johnson and woody king jr. And i salute our writers and our scholars and our literary professionals who were on our panels. We really thank you for all the work that you do. I also thank our elected officials who have supported this conference and our corporate partners. All of you have helped to realize the cigging enough cannes significance and value of this literary gathering. This Conference Takes Place over two years, and it really takes a village. I want to give a special acknowledgment to the center for black literature director Clarence Reynolds. Hes sitting over here. [applause] hes had tremendous responsibility for coordinating all of these activities. I also thank our coordinators for various components of this program. They are crucial. Bernadette sandy, Joylin Phillips [inaudible] simone, raquel bennett, tai allen, professors wallace ford, todd craig, victoria, Linda Jackson and joanna [inaudible] i thank you for working as a team to bring this together and particularly intently over the last several months. A special thank you also to our students and to the faculty who encourage them to attend. I think we had more students this year than weve had in a number of years. And i hope that all of you have seen the value of this historical moment and that it will be etched in your memory. And i thank our center for black literature Advisory Board. I think we have two Advisory Board members here, Richard Jones and patrick buddington, center for literature Advisory Board. [applause] we have many partners and supporters listed in your program booklet. Im not going to read all of them. And as we move to our Closing Program with Michael Eric Dyson and Khalil Gibran muhammad, i really, really thank femme there are coming out. I encourage you to support our writers, to support the important work of the center for black literature. We are the only center for black literature in this country, and we want to stay. [applause] you can make a donation online by supporting us. Thank you, enjoy the rest of this evening. And look on our web site for documentation of the conference. Well have videotapes, well have photographs, and youll be able to donate online. Continue to visit our web site and to be continually aware of the programs that we do. We need your support and we need your help. Thank you. [applause] yes. What a way to end a conference. A conversation with Michael Eric Dyson and Khalil Muhammad, writing race, embracing difference. Writing race and embracing difference. Heres what were going to have for you today. Bring out our two wonderful, esteemed guests. Lets give it up for them. [applause] and i dont want to read you the long bye owes, theyre in the program, so you can just glimpse those. So again, brother Khalil Muhammad [applause] michael erik dyson. [applause] [cheers and applause] so lets have a consideration. Thank you. Thank you. I am always honored to have the invitation of brenda green and Clarence Reynolds and to be at medgar evers. So appreciate you coming out. And, of course, to have professor dyson here with us is a really special treat. [applause] and just so that im always mindful that new york citys a big place, to anyone who is a longtime supporter, user or fan of the schomburg center, thank you for your support. [applause] so this Closing Panel was inspired by an essay written a couple of years ago called writing race in america x. The subtitle by david wright was white authors have a duty to create black characters. Now this is, in part, the frame for the entire conference, although it strikes me that theres an interesting way to invert the frame. Right. Here we have a black author writing about a black president and a presidency that has always historically been white. So one way to think about this is the obligation or the challenge of black authors to write about institutions of power and privilege that are wholly unique, separate and distinction from the black experience. Great. So thats how were going to think about the next 45 minutes in terms of having president dyson here. So the black presidency, when did the book start . It started first of all [audio difficulty] [laughter] okay, great. Want to thank dr. Green again and doc reynolds for this extraordinary event and for the honor of being here. And to professor muhammad, one of the most brilliant and gifted interlocutors more broadly across the intellectual landscape and schomburgs loss is harvards gain. But we know hell find his way back to harlem and to brooklyn very, very quickly. Lets celebrate his achievement [applause] i always said, for those who know me, i said, look, this is the leftwing skip gates. [laughter] i didnt know i was being that perspective perceptive, that he would actually go to the Institution Even more quickly than i thought. [laughter] so god bless him. You know, this book began the moment obama was elected president of the United States of america. I happened to be there that night in grant park where reverend jackson was shedding tears, people were looking askance at his tears, but i think they were quite genuine because he could imagine the path from dr. Kings assassination to now obamas potential inauguration 40 years later was a remarkable trajectory. And for much of that, he carried us symbolically as a tremendous figure. But i was there that night working for tv 1, making commentary, and i must say when wolf blitzer of cnn announced that this man has been elected as the 44th president of the United States of america, it was pretty remarkable. It was pretty, you know, it was pretty unbelievable really. And im in that, you know, tweener generation where, you know, we still have pride in black first, we still look to a certain degree to jet magazine to see what was on tv during the week and who was black. And i still remember Sidney Poitier flapping that black man. [laughter] still remember when that white man slapped him and he slapped him back in the heat of the night, that was new, right . [laughter] we didnt have twitter or perez hilton or takeout media. But when we saw that black man, that shining prince of black manhood, that was news. So im of that generation vicariously. I didnt live through it. Myself, as an older figure, but too old for some of the younger general races. So it was still generations. So it was still a remarkable thing that a black man could become president of the United States of america. And i was heading, as it turns out, to harvard the next day to do a series of lectures on jayz. Had my stuff written out, ready to go. And then i said on the plane right there, can i really talk about him when barack obama has been named the president of the United States of america . I said, nah, not really. So for the next three days, off the top of my dome, i lectured at harvard about obama and different aspects of him. So the book began there. It began to take shape, and its in [inaudible] forms, of course. But thinking out loud about what it would mean to have a black president , a figure of estimable worth and incredible intelligence and magnitude and the breadth of both his learning and his ability to convince america to vote for him. Because obama had an idea that no other black person in the history of this world has successfully carried forward. I will run the, historically, most powerful empire in the history of the world and so a lot of people wanted to. Hes the one to carry through with it. So i was intrigued by him, having known him since 1991, 92 as to what his presidency would look like. So the book began to take shape there. So lets talk about that. One of the interesting things about mikes book is unlike previous biographies of the president , this is a biography of the presidency. And its a key distinction precisely because the book, essentially, retells the moment of his inauguration framed by criticisms about whether he was black enough even as a candidate to a kind of early appreciation for the trajectory of criticisms that the president had faced and what he was capable of. So that kind of writerly intervention, i think, is important to note. But you have a story. You have a back story. So tell us a little bit about that back story right. Which gives you a certain kind of insight and credibility to talk about the man even before he becomes president. Thats why he is who he is, see . Is. [laughter] if id have known i was doing that, i could have [laughter] said that articulately, and i could have saved myself some trouble. Man [laughter] yeah, thats great. And thats exactly what im doing, right . What he said. [laughter] and the framework is, indeed, the presidency and how to this occupant has how this occupant has forever altered, colored, darkened the corridors of power by virtue of his presence there, an constitution that heretofore had been a white institution, a white male Institution Even more particularly. And so youre absolutely right. I wanted to take measure of that. I wanted to engage that institution to the degree that it would bend to and yield to the pressures, demands, insights, desires and preoccupations of this particular black figure but also the collective enterprise of imagination about political and social futures that black people would bring to bear. And so i wanted to do that on the one happened, but youre absolutely right on the one hand. But youre absolutely right. Having met obama for the first time at Mcdonald University in the outskirts of chicago where he, i and the actress Cheryl Lee Ralph were on a black history panel. [laughter] now, i can tell you hes a real brother because later on he said, you know, we were on that panel, mike, and you aint saying much to me, and i aint saying much to you, and we were basically looking at ms. Ralph. And i said no doubt about it, homey. [laughter] and later on when he said senator hughes, i said if id have known you liked yellow negroes [laughter] so the thing is, you know, we met then. We had cordial conversations. We joined the same church, right . Thats kind of a revelation. Trinity . Trinity United Church of christ. Jeremiah wright he gets more stuff out of me, im telling you. [laughter] so i joined the church. For those who were saying he never went to church, no, he went to church. He heard some sermons. [laughter] oh, im sorry, i couldnt tell because neither was i. So whats interesting, you know, intellectuals on the road, preachers, ourselves. So obama was there, you know, the way he is now is the way he was then; reasonable, balanced, articulate, humble, selfdepracating somewhere between cory booker and gerald ford with a little bit more color. [laughter] this guy right here. Right, youre right in that sense both in the shades of ideology along that continuum as well as his approach to politics. Because they were new black politicians in that sense. The thing about obama, of course, and, of course, cory booker and harold ford, they understand the need and necessity to be rooted in black america, all of them. The outcome may be different, but obama was also ambitious. You know, theres a story, as you know as a chicagoan, but obama was running for state senate, decided to run for state senate. The previous occupant of that office had decided to run for the United States congress after mel reynolds, then the occupant of that office, fell into some hard times. Right. And well leave it there. [laughter] and so the reality is that this woman said im going to run for that office. But when Jesse Jackson jr. Threw his hat into the ring, all bets were off. Right. So she said let me go back to the state senate, and let me do that. In chicago politics it was like everybody, you know, a pecking order. You served your time, you did your thing, this, this particular office then you have to acknowledge that the older person or the person more senior gets the nod. Well, the younger guy named obama wasnt really let me think about that. Not only did he think about it and said, no, i think im going to keep my name in and didnt give her her seat back rhetorically, symbolically. He said he was going to stay in the race. He figured out a way not only to remove her from officially being able to run, but everybody else who was on the slate. Challenged her signatures, right . Challenged her signature, but he got everybody else wiped out. Thats pretty machiavellian. Hes a real nice little guy, you think, tall guy and, yes, we can, yes, we can. That guy is ruthless at a certain level politically speaking, right . Dont hes the silent killer. Hes the kind of guy joking about donald trump and killing osama bin laden. Thats the kind of guy he is. That didnt start there. So obama was a guy i talked to, interacted with, engaged, worked with look, when he was running for the senate, at wbon, i think a womens expo, and i was the black radio, am station in chicago. Thats right. Critic, scholar of history. [laughter] history. Im just saying some stuff, hes breaking it down for you. [laughter] so at the bon, tell you how times were different, i was the headline name, and they wanted obama to share the stage. Can this young man come to your event, and you shout him out, use your [inaudible] to get the people to support him . I said, sure. And, you know, it was about the size of this room, and obama couldnt fill it. I was there, i was the headliner, i said, great. This young man that i want you to consider, right . So he came on and did his thing, and i supported him and, of course, endorsed him, gave him some dough as well. So, you know, that kind of thing. Back and forth. Id see him here and there. Linda johnson rices Birthday Party tell them who linda is daughter of the publisher. Ebony, you know . So id see him at the christmas parties, and wed talk. And i remember once i guess i should say this since its being recorded. I said, hey, man, look, im doing this book on bill cosby, and, you know, id like for you to blurb the book. And this is what he said. He said, he says, well, you know, michael, he says im sure its brilliant. Typically, you know . [laughter] finish he says the problem is that what you say in your book, people will automatically say im saying. Its not that i disagree, because i havent read your book and i dont know what youre going to say. Ive told all my friends that im going to have to start blushing. Ill certainly blurbing. Ill certainly be supportive. This dude was trying to be president already. As a newlyminted senator, i knew and i respected that i knew what he was about. I knew what his trajectory was. So i had that interaction with him, talked to him, engaged him, friendly with him. We werent the best of friends, but wiz friendly with him. And that was brought to bear upon our relationship. It, you know, i served twice as a surrogate for him. I supported him when many black people were supporting Hillary Clinton x. When including marcia. Nights spent on the couch, bro. [laughter] you got your people from the south side of chicago, you know how they do it. Whoa, really . We getting personal like this . So i supported him early on x. The irony is she is the one who introduced me to him. Shes the one that hooked up the thing with cheryl lee. And obama didnt forget that. Later on, ill give you an example. We were stumping in cincinnati. And he said, he told a photographer, he said, come over here. He said, take this picture. And he says, mike, stand right here. And he said now send this to marcia, show her what a real winner looks like. Did he say that . Hes like that. Hes on some subtle snoop dogg thing right there. People were arguing, is he black . I have to say this though. So given that sketch, a kind of a character sketch over, lets say, a 15year period right. Preceding his run for the white house, you presented a person who is incredibly sensitive to the context in which both his physical presence matters and his rhetorical presence. Right. Which is to say that what we got in the presidency was not an accident. Right. Thats right. So lets talk a little bit about that. Yeah. Look, for those who thought that barack obama was going to be a revolutionary figure to that degree, that he would challenge the institution, were sorely misled. Your point there about the physical presence and the rhetorical one, and a great deal of this book is spent engaging obamas rhetorical engagement with the office itself and the lethal limits that are arbitrarily and also witheringly imposed upon the people who occupy it. They are at once paradoxically the most powerful person in the world, like whoevers the heavyweight champion is the baddest man on earth . Whoever occupies that presidency, the most powerful man perhaps soon woman in the world. And at the same time, so limited in terms of what they are capable of doing in the real world. So obama understood the sublime paradox that underwrote his historic achievement. And in the one sense he exploited the tab la rosa rasa. It was pretty much true because, you know, whatever you wrote about him was true because we didnt really know what his history was. And he was agile enough, nimble enough to box in and out and to dance in and around what people thought about him to get enough people together, millions in this country. Never a majority of white people, by the way. Right . Never a majority of white people, by the way. To believe in him. Although, you know, percentage wise his numbers were pretty high of any democrat in the last, you know, 40, 50 years 43 in 08 and 39 in yeah. And so when sorry. [laughter] critical now. Thats why he does what he does. So when you think about that and then the percentage of black people, of course, that supported him, 96 the first time, 99 3 the second time. So when you got a guy like that who is intelligent, who is keenly insightful and analytical in a philosophical sense abstractly about the nature of the office and the individual sense of occupation of that office, there was bound to be tremendous kinship. Even in those of us who appreciated him, loved him and supported him, but those of us who understood similarly that theres a distinction between you as the occupant of the office and the office of the presidency and the responsibilities, obligations and goals and aspirations that must be somehowboard met or at least somehow both met or at least addressed in a specific fashion. And i think, you know, lets be honest too. The overwhelming majority of black people are in love with barack obama. He is the collective boo [laughter] of black america, right . [applause] be real, be real. [laughter] you know . And even progressive and leftwing people, theyre like dont be messing with my boo. Dont be saying nothing about bey. [laughter] and ill tell you what, and like any other man, he would exploit that. You got to be jesus not to exhoyt that. And this is what tricks me, this is whats tricky about black people. Now and im not talking about, and i wont name any names, black critics who have been especially hurtful and harmful ad hominem if we can alit rahtively i still love him too, but thats not my style, and i think [audio difficulty] even though black people who are willing to be in, in principle, critical of obama, get dissed by black people who cant make a distinction. Because they love obama so much and have invested in him so much, my mama called me up one day [laughter] now, michael, i know youre a scholar, and i know youre a critic. But thats the first black president. Be careful. [laughter] im getting warning shots from my mama . Really . [laughter] you tried to take me over your [inaudible] so the reality is that, and obama actually had heard that story and reminded me. Thats how funky he is. Right. Finish that we might offer ursine Historical Resources for at the time clearly thinking about it regards to this historical situation. Except that within 24 hours there was actually hate mail from those in the conversation. Before the second term and the pardon. But here was essentially we cannot even have a conversation with the policies that govern of the marginalize population continues to suffer the policies of that government. But that brilliant analysis is done today better to have already indicated in your statement criminal Justice Reform but even that with that trickery is more than the last seven president s combined those all together overall not so much he is more stingy with the pardons you cannot claim congressional approval this is straight up just you and your conscience but you are so right about the campus of history because there this march is that people we have on earth but if you cannot sit down if you can have muhammed engaging in the argument there is a love him so much we invested in him. This is what we want to see payoff with their dividends and investments. [applause] of a highly articulate a beautiful sold smart but to do our vision and that is a d. C. Isnt easy but this is what we have invested in the you are imposing this upon them into literally basically implying a threat against them to have a conversation in defense of black people from the journey of the blacks no one can ever be put above the tradition and that nurtures a man sustains us as much as we love obama we have to hold him accountable. Abets my child i cannot be critical. That is my husband i could never be critical. Really . Wiring three critical . Because given the sharp spending and astonishing analogy the professor mohammed has put forward black people think tough love is the only available glove and America Black people want more of it take bill cosby i rode the book that says give us more. Buy tickets to the parade. You did note that you were the job he is chairing for that is unparalleled. Before o. J. , bill cosby was berating black america long before but it wasnt a problem when it was black women. Pretty soon youll have to have the dna card. Of that is my job to read. You do the math. Do the math i could be saving you from your grandmother but if a white man said that ted is a pathological assaults to remove the pathology. So the point is i have to do a book signing in lawsuits of this. But it was black people that our resistant to anybody and heres the irony. They do more than trying to get beat up. With the woman sides with the it will dash with the abuser to protect her children end of their welfare. I dont make it that extraordinary but it is on that continue of other to tell the truth to have a reasonable conversation i will table whole donald trump accountable race can be talked about 80 you get ahead of it or leave from behind. Obama this limitation with his rhetoric his tongue a and mouth of the rhetoric with the intellectual deconstruction of race. And then they begin to pick apart the politics. And with those political consequences with a figure id like donald trump. To get together to have a serious conversation. I am curious about the metaphors with kinetic greater distance then also with relationships it seems to me to have it both ways literally like a black coal. And then to radiate back out to the world. That because of who i have had what i have achieved can occupy a national space. Because adults suffer from Police Violence only in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin one of the more telling moments that many of you have heard of you havent a u. S. Led clear based black flies matter inspired organization. And you can think of it as getting to the point with that second inauguration now in a conversation in with the National Debate a single death or casualty your tragedy but yet there is no president a bombing giving a speech at newtown for the projects to give all to hell and not the of president but the first lady to chicago. And for his accomplishment that is the constant refrain that cannot concede your failure. Of failed sexual policies of your failures. A ben. [applause] but i talking the book is the for how it determines with the tide in place who spoke jesus with the abrupt finish death across the nation so the tide in place of a persons place on the earth so those of us were baptist ministers who becomes of body of jesus of resurrection a bad crucifixion and. So what happens racially speaking with the american ideal that cosmic sweet that it substitutes his body is exempt from the penalties that we face. So the point is because he absorbs all light. With that metaphor of the physics of race with obama lewis inability to an acknowledged he is responsible for with black america as a substitute. 81 on the president of black america. I am not the president of black america. But clearly that. And then talk about our history but now this exceptional of black men but with his inability to open up to talk about the black people and what were facing. And that is one hell of a sacrifice. So with fat acronym. It was amazing. And then to save my daddy told me you can beat though white people. It at the end of the day i have seven you have 101. So to the american. A whole bloody end battered to knock them out he had with a head and if he did not give now can you imagine . Now zero obama wants to be celebrated for things that they should be. But that is a you are supposed to do. Said to have nothing of the same. As that acceptable argument and also to be associated with black people and to lecture us and to stand up for us. Dont tell me about the white man tell me what you were doing. The same minister or the same creature the same white person get your foot off the neck of the black people to let us move forward no better example than a Jesse Jackson. When it is more than a person anyone can make a baby it takes to me and to raise a baby. That the reason why you dont call because that is a license that you take. That is how black people talk. I get it. And then to represent as. And stand up for White Supremacy in the publics fear. So for mercy chris servicemen of the presidency tells a story there were protecting the ball much. And secondly that they did not like her for two other reasons. Issue was hard and he to them. But then in the president ial about this secret servicemen heard Michele Obama assay every now and again take the black people side. First of all, white you have to tell him that . [applause] he needs to go on his own. Within the press release. And then they said were you doing . He delivered the most poignant and powerful speeches on race he has given to praise White America where the black people were besieged. Even a puddle of water looks like an ocean in the desert. We were drinking bad at the big time. And with that analysis i was a little surprised how emotionally taken we were by his rendition of amazing grace. Even before that talk about Hillary Clinton the candidate for on the one hand with the tradition ended here you have clinton to make explicit debate ends on those countries. Ims sucker for both of them. Will he do it . Yes. I am down with that. With the mechanism i will never apologize for celebrating that black rhetoric into black literacy. In the best of them have been phenomenal. So if we can recognize the people why people call kobe bryant the greatest player of all time. And thousands and thousands even Michael Jordan have that. Is shaquille told me he said were coming, 3 00 in the morning coming of the gym with a trader it is 3 00 in the morning . So we dont appreciate scholars and writers to read that level. [applause] you get that clear where that intelligent of the disciplined application through objects of scrutiny and it is of such power. I have spent a preacher. Put them all those scholars to those within the quarter. So with everybody else. [laughter] if you have religion. [laughter] that i see it. To vienna in contrast with cosmic consequences so forgive me plus ion american and what has deftly that described with that technological hope ended to put pressure on timing and that is different. Because he was trained by one of the best. But at the same time from the new republic magazine i had a great clinton will do more for the black people than obama. But in the book we talk about it. So the public at the speeches of Hillary Clinton ainu people get crazy. We are electing a president it is unjust the donald trump people on the right. The you were still in the game. Im not mad. I will work for him. But are maybe susan sarandon. Im sorry. So here is the point we are so eric it collectively to believe with the finite politician that you would not even consider that alternative. So i debt was a skeptic. The when i saw that development in the persistence of her with concentrated tofu. [laughter] here is a woman who tries to talk about. If she doesnt have the skin color. And obama will play out that black card. He got that because he played us. Be honest. You have to be a profit not to play somebody agrees is apropos and resist that. But it was because of his charisma. I feel your pain. [laughter] but under obama we have done far more poorly than anybody else. Just a few days ago with the job report if your american you have no complaints about barack obama he bailed out the banks, a health care, he gave us the ability to be redistributed i dont care what you say he will go down as one of the greatest president s we ever have like the black Ronald Reagan into in years you will be like jesus walking on water except what he did for black people. But kept her barack obama is a Shaquille Oneal when it comes to black people he could issue freethrow is the teeone tribune ships obama cannot shoot the free throw his hesitation in is lethal that has been occupied by donald trump. They occupied the same space at the same time. So with that retaliation of a white supremacist mindset. Spreadsheet is the woman to remark upon that. But to be pretty astonishing. And then jullundur cries. Oh my god what about his masculinity. With a woman who doesnt have access to her of motions is a charismatic figure but has the constant drum beat of her own public life is and of meeting the crisis of people a Public Policy that has the potential to address it. The kids played the saxophone arsenio. Because he does not have permission to be black and not suggesting clinton is the failure. [laughter] we he has appropriated that but there is a way that he doesnt have the privilege to be publicly black saw at the same time he lacks the courage that without the same amount of courage in a way that makes you appear to be treacherous so that is what i meant. So please stick around. I want to end on this note that this seems black america has been the best constituent to stand up in the face of the hillary president rb headed for a reversal . To talk about what president s can do. Talking about clinton to play a race card to push yourself in front of black america. The net yet one wonders to the presumptive nominee. That is a brilliant point in and sarcastic. [laughter] but the point is so well taken. So i will be like this. So now you come to me . Now youre asking more of me . That was dangerous for us to do that. We didnt give him no grace. All of these were like i dont give a dm. To have so many qualifications ive never heard anybody say that. [laughter] i have never heard negros say farm representative democracy. Then you have given up the ability to till the next president but what is interesting they didnt get george bush im glad they didnt to give the obamacare pass and heres the point. But you know, it is different. And then to be called a liar. Why couldnt they know if they do this to me . And i have bodyguards. It never occurs to him that barack obama is a symbolic expression of black america to become the proxy. To shoot the anonymous black man. Because metaphorically in symbolically and black people hypocritically the same way with the black people to make that argument against gay and the lesbians. Why women cannot be preachers it is just like a sexual redneck if you believe there is a difference when did you choose to be gay or straight . When he is 12 to say ive made a choice among the competing sexualities and i will be straight. [laughter] that is what people make with the frequency and it is a choice of the collective enterprises i say the same way that they use the bible that we turn around with the presidency when obama became because he did not do xyz if we did not hold him accountable and to hold any president accountable in the United States of america. On a positive note those of the most explicit to hold him accountable. From the beginning to be paid an enormous price. The Obama Presidency you saw what i wrote about cornell west. He has left casualtys in his wake. So i have disagreements but these are valued a and insightful human beings. Who are put in a position to make a choice about a man that was positive about us. So think of choices so wire black women still so marginalized . Because we are incapable of imagining that leadership has basically saved as. We cannot even return the favor. And part of it is within our composite with 1982 or 83. The you have to make it look like jesus. But i did that for one year when i came to the church that day i said oh my god they are changing the locks. [laughter] they will give me a new office is my anniversary. I must be getting good. At the end of the 70 says pastor we have a problem. You are trying to come down here to change our ways. He did not say christian and or africanamerican he said you nigga are messing things up and they voted me at of the church and a lot of them were women. I get it. To be complicitous in your own oppression with that unreliable methodology. It is never a problem to that degree that with three choices of the Supreme Court could not find a black woman and let me tell you something. If you are playing chess get a black woman would be anyone you would support anyone anyway. So therefore to put in place a black woman so obama is representative of the families problem in understanding and he said im not going for the black candidates. That took a lot in the face of black america. So with that safety net will he parted his way out of office . Held no. I dont think it did absolutely bent go. A remarkable and brilliant woman. No. Obama did not go over to meet with the women. Of course, now. But she was the only one available. No. To undercut the legitimacy in could not speak about police brutality. And there is no way in hell and that is in direct conflict with what she tried to flight try to fight to suggests no way in the world to have that political ability but look at bush and clinton. Had bad it. [laughter] but i am the man. A Richard Pryor moment. [laughter] so this will be the last session. How do we go that everyone embraces that is talked about . To be a multicultural nation. But on the one hand obama is one of the most decent human beings but it where ironically enough around the issue of race that bill clinton is the key nine. But to say im good. Armstrong. But it is like a cat. [laughter] there is something sexy and evil about that. But we should strive to be of conscientious as we can evasions and latinos and with those differences operating simultaneously. But that is in the york in a different way. But that blackwhite divide is around the politics throughout history. Even among the negros. So we will operate. It is possible to talk about race now with malcolm x asking what you could do and he said nothing. So what they are in engaged to understand who they are the also to have explained. There is the event a geographical difference if you were born in apple middleclass chicago so watch out for that apple. [laughter] to get the education but you will remember this also. He knows i am joking. That is my job. And we have to explain. To the surrender my position of authority. As the extension of the tradition and as people are going to be self critical so lets talk. And so for me we should do that and nobody got that part right. Just the one time when you talk about feed your kids chicken obama did it one time. Into krauthammer and club in and criticize him. That the negros have done the same thing. Nigga please. The only black person that day he got his degree an enemy in the president specifically. [laughter] that is a pejorative term. I am saying nigga please has an explanation. [laughter] [applause] into go out of his way so this guy who goes out of his way they have to challenge the white people. To make the of the uncomfortable. But not from the existence and even the president. But as a consequence of who he is but the willingness to challenge the white folks is a great mark against him. For those limits imposed upon him he was willing to do a lot of stuff. For White America. So when he gets out of office. Nobody gives a

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