With, but also disingenuous. But there is a certain masking as well that goes with that. That was that. We brought down the flag end of conversation. The post conversation, we havent talked, for example, do they talk about this as a form of terrorism . I havent seen much discussion about it. My Facebook Page [inaudible] in general i dont think we have that. When abdulazeez, i forgot his first name was caught in tennessee, any time this happens with one of our muslim brothers would go immediately look into what website is elected not. Has he ever googled for a School Project muslim fundamentalism. This must be the root of all of it. I hope some group didnt send him in there. Lets be clear. On his Facebook Page is for aggregation flag on his jacket. Hes 21 years old. The real throwback is unique not just a Confederate Flag. Get the rhodesian flag. That is her white supremacy. He is the lone gunmen who showed up and that was that. Somewhere around there something deeper going on. One of your colleagues noticed that photographs. Laura webster specializes in the image and she says the photographs are posed and theyre actually fairly sophisticated. He did not take photographs by themselves, which reminded me of the marvelous piece in my book black american and then asking to be black and look at that. It is about a lynching. The whole question is who is on the other side of the camera. And are those even coconspirators. So that is the art part who took that picture and how did those ingredients get in there . With abdulazeez i feel like someone who will grow up a treat at 2. 0. There is no discussion, nothing like that. Im not saying we need to militarize the state. I dont like militarize police at all. There has been some discussion. We have not seen the mainstream respond than what weve had over the last 36 hours. Related to that, she talked about will receive the patriot act 2. 0 . I do want to talk about National Elections revving up to the next president ial election. Weve talked about local politics, but to what extent is there any . Do you have any hope for a possibility as tied to who becomes president . How does that bear on this question of whether theres a crisis confronting black america. If the democrats ran a yellow dog, id go for it. Whoever the democrat is im afraid i will vote for the democrat. For me and much more interested in local and state politics and my your blanketyblank governor is moving to New Hampshire. New jerseys governor is the strongest nation in the government. Where is our governor of New Hampshire . Or hes in iowa with the crazies and talking their language. For me you hear me talking about the local politics and the state politics. That is where i think we can put a thumb on the labor to get people voting and make it count. I feel like the national politics. I get a billion emails from all the democrats and progressives in the whole world that there are a lot of people working on the national and im just one person. I am not working on the national right now. I am working on essex county. In town and the current candidates on both tickets concerns me deeply and im not trying to be flip, but the gop side, ive never seen anything like this. It is really wild and it says something. This has since been i dont have faith in Hillary Clinton if she were to calm brown but i dont see either party producing a candidate that will do it on the grounds that its good for america to tend to the problem. What you do with your concern . I do what i do. I go to work. That is what i can do and i am here today and a lot of people are watching cspan and hopefully this is what we do. We are doing something now. This is helpful. Im glad the election is in for 15 months from now. I dont know what i would do at the moment. I do know that i dont like my vote being taken because i am black. I do like the idea of what i see in the gop. I hope donald trump stays around because hes just hilarious. I dont think he has a shot. I just love watching the cap that he does. I dont know whats going on. In all seriousness i dont know. Theres a way in which the democratic birdie has taken for granted our support and got their address of even breadandbutter issues because without directly confronting issues that apply to us and understand those who apply to people are not apply. The gop says reagan had trickled down economics the democrats did trickle over. If we talk about one group it would just melt away without getting up there and say this is what racism looks like. It is structural and implicated with other forms of that quality that may not be specifically africanamericans. But the assumption that we help the middle class that is trickle over economics. Im glad i dont have to vote for the primaries coming. Way down in the middle of 2016. I still have a little bit of time to think it through. In terms of once again local and state politics, these decisions keep getting made on a local level almost month by month because we have so many elections. I would like to see us be invested as well as the ones in which voters we are one of 150 million if everybody voted. Thinking about the Confederate Flag and talking about voting, i am thinking that one of the forces that i would say was really important in this change was the fact that there is now a significant electorate in South Carolina. That is the single largest pressure on making black South Carolina and visible ms people who are not represented by the Confederate Flag. The tragedy that a member of the state senate was assassinated that made a difference as well. But when we talk about this sort of tsunami of politics, black voting im sure has made the revolution is too strong a verb but its made all the difference in the world. This is in some way related but one of the things that has been discussed in florida in particular is the growing puerto rican population and have been significant for the next president ial election. But it also opens the door for us to have some discussion about immigration and politics of race with respect to that. We saw something in terms of the digital activism with significant to what is happening to haitians in the dominican republic. So we see a growth and cited concerns about race internationally. But also domestically, the way we talk about immigration. Not historically, but the last decade or two has focused on latinos. To what extent the issue is should be primary with respect to are talking about race currently. Just a background a little bit skip the goal about the way race and immigration can come together in a way that can push race in america forward. One comment that i study intensely but a lot of what happens in america today, even though more than 100 years past is the idea of the one drop rule is powerful and the way in which, for example, i am a puerto rican man. People just assume i self identify as racially black but it would make a difference to a police officer. I cant say stop im puerto rican. Youve got the wrong guy. That would make a difference. So the historical backdrop in which people are with power and how that plays out and thats how i will say about that threat coming up there. I think the integration of large numbers of welleducated people from africa and to a certain extent caribbean is going to make a difference in certain places like my new jersey your new jersey that immigrants are less burdened by the tragic side of africanAmerican History. And more able to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities of american culture. This has been true of immigrants to matter where they come from. They tend to say here is something i can do and im not going to do with all this other stuff. Let me do what i need to do. There is an advantage for immigrants no matter where they come from. But in terms of we see this at princeton with salmon at the black students i read it black students are rated themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants and they are very well educated which has been the key to the advantages of asian immigrants that the immigrant population is very well educated. It is much more popular than it was a generation ago and they will continue being complicated. Complicated in the sense of people coming from various places. Complicated because we now have more voluntary immigrants from the african continent than we had in voluntary immigrants in the slave trade area. That is a big difference. Just the sense of possibility the sense of freedom that immigrants and their children brain. I wouldnt be surprised if in the next sense the next sense that the one after that we have an ethnicity within flag as well in the way that you dont anymore for a black or white. 100 years ago there were at the cities within way. You have to say where you were born and where your parents were born and how many people are immigrant. That went away is what people thought homogenized. This will change with the tide of african descent into immigrants. Its a very interesting time. I think the way immigration is discussed in capital politics on the other door level there dont seem to be that many new ideas coming from there. The challenge for us is to see the similarities, make the political connections as well. There are millions of people who live in. State secretary d. Visavis this National Fiction of citizenship. Citizenship itself is variegated some of them are more equal than others. Some have none at all. That is where there is this larger burden we have to think a shared across so many other groups. California or los angeles anyway, half of the Police Murder and brutality are borne by latino population. Clearly that is not much different from what we see in South Carolina and via alabama. Clearly a linkage. In terms of the crisis for democracy, how do we remake of democracy or try to finetune this thing. We have to think expansively. I may sound like an oldfashioned liberal on this, that expanding the franchise is one of those things. You dont have to apologize. I feel like i do. You know we are at a participation to the Larger Population may be at an alltime low. The title of the panel is in a moment of crisis, suppress voter voter we talk about apathy. Im not sure if this is people who are discouraged or cant vote because of criminal records are the obstacles Police Officers saying if you have vote and a childsupport comet will be the last ballot you cast in a while. Voter i. D. Laws, all of that. I register people to vote. Many people said rd registered and it reminded them of the next election. Some people said i dont vote. Some people said well i am still on parole. I cant vote. I dont want to get on a soap rocks but it is ludicrous that people who are clearly part of our policy would not have a say in it. We were saying where do we go from here and mark this is the entire crew log would have written off in anybodys calculates. There is no boat to be gained there. Okay. Im not registered in the state of new jersey. I want to step back a second from voting even though i think it is still relevant. You raise this point about varying levels that people confront and one of the ways that we talk about undocumented immigration, people without papers, but of course theres all kinds of people without papers. People who cannot access for certificates or Social Security cards and of course folks who are her serrated, various kinds of exclusions from the full exercise of participation of membership. And yet, given that, why is it so difficult to forge alliances across these other kinds of perceived differences, whether its National Identity or ethnicity. What is hampering that . I come right back at the relationship between jobs and politics is like this. Patronage, jobs. It is a question of jostling over terms. Who is in charge and who is going to allocate their jobs. It is a real need. Another thing earlier about what happens when immigrants come here and whether folks are already educated, previously, it better. There is no strategy. Theres no better strategy than to divide people of interest. I live in new haven, connecticut. If you go through the teeming neighborhoods, something happened. They are poorer but theyre independently owned businesses some people in homes, some people rent homes. The city has just completely its just a different place. As you move through these areas, its a whole other story. Part of the issue about forge an alliance if you think youre doing better ,com,com ma the other group will hold you back down because of the stigma attached in the resources and the connection this is not my expertise, but i can say commonsensical eight that want obstacle to getting what people think is hell be dead weight because you dont have the kind of hole and people dont respect her community as much, et cetera. That is one thing that i think is a problem. We have former mayor saying the same thing coming out. [applause] [applause] adapter named. I didnt know i was going to have this privilege, but i am delighted to have it. I am supposed to be outside signing books and then they offered me an opportunity to come in to greet you folks and i of course seized upon it. We have several intellectuals here. I am not to be confused with them. So if the spirit moves you i hope youll stop by barnes noble outside and pick up a book. The purpose of writing a book in trying to promote in the first instance is not to make money but rather to talk about a lot of wonderful people who did great in good things when we were privileged to serve this city. So that which we did right they get the credit. Where things were not done as well as they should have been, i will take the blame. I hope you stop by and take a look at if you havent already. Ive got someone telling me youve got to go now. But i thought if you were a day had a question or two, i might try to be responsive. We have just been asking what it is that keeps different parts of the community separate like the latino neighborhood in the African American neighborhood in the african neighborhood in the white neighborhood, what keeps them from working together . One obviously they cannot be separated. In that lovely book weve done is the mayors life governing new yorks gorgeous mosaic. I went to school in harlem for a while a very very long time ago and we were taught that new york city is a melting pot. But it is not a melting pot. I would say its a gorgeous mosaic. They speak more than 100 languages in queens. We need to not permit folks to divide us. Our interests are the same. I dont know why it is the way it is. People almost every year around dr. Kings birth date the question is posed as dr. Kings dream then realized and of course the responses of course the response is a negative. No it hasnt. But things are better. Not what they have to be but not what they used to be. Can i follow up . You created a successful coalition. How did you go about that . Well i had some really good people. Some of you here though was bill lynch, for instance, died much too early. 72 it is still difficult for me to talk about him. But he was a large part of the reason that we were able to put together the group we had. Some folks who worked with us that i had never not only didnt know, have never heard a period Basil Paterson and i assume you know these names but he said to me you know youre going to need to counsel. I said yeah i know that but who . He says that that just the guy. George daniels. I said who is he . He is a judge. Kill never get data. He said ask him. He is one of the smartest, nicest guys you ever want to meet. He is now a federal judge. Before i left i appointed him back to the criminal point bench that he got elected to Supreme Court and clinton made him a federal judge. We call him the heavy judge because there was a time in harlem where we were making plans for a Community Center and the chairman was scared white sand james watt and who was a federal judge. He was the chairman of the group and one saturday afternoon brothers and sisters are getting anxious. Come on, ive got to go. He said no weve got to wait for the judge. So in the door was heard at a who was a state Supreme Court judge. The judge is there. No i mean the heavy judge. So henceforth, federal judges are known as the heavy judge. But i have a lot of good people. Oslo was the chairman of our judiciary committee. This is a nonpaid position just got to understand. He and his committee if i had two appointments theyd bring me maybe three or four people. It didnt matter which ones i picked because they were all that good. So we had more women more a more people of color than ever before. But it was because of basel. He too has gone much too early. So it is no exaggeration to say that we did get some good things done some things we didnt do as well as we might have and i will accept the blame for that. But we did get a lot of good things done and every now and then somebody remembers them. That is not too often, but once in a while. But it is because of these folks. With outstanding, many of them are now government. Some of them working for deblasio, some of them not. There was one guy carl widespread who at the very last minute and 1883 when im about to block the city doll city hall doors and carl came rushing at but they never ran to a vendor standing to be by the deputy mayor for finance and economic development. The last minute. Now what with most of us have been doing that late in the game . Dbo surveyed in trying to get a job. He was working on the one he had. The agreement that he brought in was for the disney deal to start a cleanup of times square. So he did that. We had a lot of women and men. They were good. They were really good. [applause] and so that is the reason for the book. Honest to god, it really is. I wont go chapter by chapter. I promise you that. But i think you will find it interesting reading. It is imperfect of course errors may come at things we couldve said differently and i wish i had. For instance, there is a jan t. Report socalled on Crown Heights and governor mario cuomo said to me you know, i sort of watergate down. It was bad but it wasnt that bad because he watergate down. I told the governor pcb and the mayor in a fight you help the mayor. [laughter] that was in politics. It was not gracious to make that kind of comment. But it is fair in writing. So anyway, i hope youll read it and i thank you for giving me this opportuni