Good afternoon. Its kind of quiet in here. I walked in and i felt like i was at a funeral. Well have to do something about this. The bodys not here. It was really somber and everything. I know the weather is impacting us, but id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallup, our partner in the work that well be embarking upon in the next several years and id like to welcome you to our home. Id like to start up and tell you why we are here and turn it over to the panelists is to introduce a very special person in the room. A whole bunch of special people, but a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund, dr. Jois payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ] payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]o payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]y payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]c payne. Dr. P
And youve got women posting shows. Doing his and hers things. And in all sports, you know . Basketball, football, baseball. You name it. So because something is new or something doesnt fit my mold, it doesnt make it bad. I think cam, his energy has actually been good for the game. I probably wouldnt do some of the things that he does but as i said earlier, i know mylane. Cam knows his lane. His lane is my lane, my lane isnt his. His lane isnt warren moons lane or Doug Williams lane but the fact is, his coaches are comfortable with him, his teammates arecomfortable with him and at the end of the day , thats all that matters. Host it looks like were out of time and this has been a great conversation. Dig deep, seven truths to finding the strength within. I enjoyed reading it and i enjoyed talking to you before i hope people will go by and gain some wisdom for my experiences. Host . Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies is brought you as a Public Service by your cable or s
Lift their minds to the pure, t serenity of your presence challenges with faith and challenges with faith and optimism. May they find delight in doing your will because your precepts are within their hearts. Remind them that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Deliver them from sins of commission and omission. As you liberate them from all lessor loves and loyalties until they find in you their reason for being. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday the Justice Department released a transcript of the orlando terrorist 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the attack and declared his loy
Detect crime. But when we be more fruitful to say that what we can measure because weve never been able to measure deterrence as long as theres been criminology. If we stop looking at different racial categories and looked across the offending which unfortunately book argues that racism in the, Justice System but then at eight spends a lot of time saying that it is okay to think of black people as it dangerous or potentially dangerous. Guest that is an unjustified statement. Find one place in that book where state that. I say repeatedly that there are the majority of people in these communities are lawabiding, they need support, they are trying to do the right thing by their children. It has nothing to do with impugning black people of somehow all criminal. If you cannot live by the statistics, then you as a criminologist i think are not serving your profession very well. The statistics are what they are. New york city again, 90 of all shootings, this is not [inaudible] host isnt that
History. This is a previously recorded program so we will not be taking phone calls. Tream amer host author will go haygood, this is a quote from you. I write about black men who heroically manifested themselves into mainstream america. I think my writing has been a relentless relentless pursuit to explain all of them. What is that mean . Guest well, i think that it is just been exciting to find these figures, like adam claim powell junior, sammy davis junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, who are not born into mainstream society, who by their enormous talent an enormous gift they put themselves into the fabric of this country by entertainment, politics, sports, or an Thurgood Marshalls case, the law. Law. In the case of the white house h of butler, extraordinarily Patriotic Service to his country these figures, when i look backn over the people have written about, they spend these amazing tales about society, culture, race, and i do not always know if they knew it when they w