Thought during this two hour meeting. Has considered the negative influence of looks. I ask to start the video. If you want to know the cause, here it is. It is these rotten comic books. It is my opinion without any reasonable doubt or reservation comic books are an important can should beating factor in many cases of juvenile delinquency. A Tennessee School board has been the critically acclaimed graphic novel mouse. It is a true story about the horrors of the holocaust by art spiegelman. The school board claimed it banned the graphic novel because of profanity and nudity. [indiscernible] was over here has a bad word. This over here has a bad word. We dont want our kids to be exposed to these things. We are professionals in our classroom and we know what is best for our students. The kids want to read books. The kids are asking me can i go get a book and read and they are so excited and i have to say no because i have not had a chance to go through all of them and catalog them to writ
[inaudible conversations] if i can have your attention please we will get started. Thank you everyone. I am pleased that you are okay. I am the president of the Manhattan Institute. [applause] thank you. It is a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. As most of you know jason is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. A regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news. In his new book, false black power . , jason office critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power. Which he argues has failed to produce significant results for africanamericans. The book also includes responses to jasons arguments from two leading black intellectuals. It is a slender book. But it packs a powerful punch. As one blogger noted, what makes the book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of his writing style. Just as fred astaire made it look easy to dance, so does riley express his mastery through elegance so natural t
[inaudible conversations] if i can have your attention please we will get started. Thank you everyone. I am pleased that you are okay. I am the president of the Manhattan Institute. [applause] thank you. It is a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. As most of you know jason is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. A regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news. In his new book, false black power . , jason office critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power. Which he argues has failed to produce significant results for africanamericans. The book also includes responses to jasons arguments from two leading black intellectuals. It is a slender book. But it packs a powerful punch. As one blogger noted, what makes the book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of his writing style. Just as fred astaire made it look easy to dance, so does riley express his mastery through elegance so natural t
Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight program. We are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufecki. She is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and Library Science at the university of north carolina. And shes also the author of twitter and tear gas which is for sale after tonight program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy, and commerce were solutions to our problems lie. We are recording ten nights event with both cspan as well as for radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones, and would like to thank the audio engineer who is joining us this evening. You will notice we have a blue question cards on your seats so pleased to make use of them thought the program and writer programs that and i will bring them up
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