Happened for instance in many families there is a lynching story. When you begin to think about what that means to have a lynching story in the family, how it shapes the way you move through this society and how it frames what you think about justice and how the system works in the society it is staggering. And so, one of the books i use was at the hands of persons unknown. That sounded like time, anyone else . Thank you so much. I appreciate this. [applause] we will have more book tv in prime time tomorrow night with authors of books about Global Health issues that begins at eight eastern with David Kessler author of capture. David horowitz latest book progressive racism argues that racism is endemic in leftist politics. He discussed his books and reasons for rejecting the politics of his youth to become a conservative. From the Four Seasons Hotel in los angeles, this is an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. When barack obama was elected ed president of the United States he was writing is full of hope whatever illusory that they have been across the country that the first black or at least half black president would usher in the era of postracial harmony. Seven years later i think we know how that turned out. Obama has healed the racial divide about successfully as his healings of the oceans. Its gone from a december to a raging boil. The left would like to pin the blame on what they call is the racist refusal to accept a black man as president. In fact, what has exacerbated relations in the United States is that racism of the less identity politics spearheaded by obama himself. Progressive racism, not the right is the reason for todays racial conflict. Let me focus if i made on his book progressive racism which i reviewed for the front page which i gave two thumbs up. Its called the black book of the american left and collects nearly 50 essays over the past 20 years. The book not to give away the ending but concludes the racial bias the left demand tears at the social order and the true quality and is the antithesis of the american dream. If i could quote a little bit more come in a free society, composed of individuals that are unequaled by nature, the highest government could his neutrality before the law. One standard and justice for all. This is the only equality at odds with individual freedom and the only quality that can make a vigorous community one. Please welcome the founder of the freedom center, the author of too many cooks to mention here including one of the few intellectuals willing to talk honestly about race and the most hated adversary, david horowitz. [applause] sorry for all those words but somebody has to do it. President obama has said that racism is in the dna of america and transmitted through the generations. This is malicious. It is in fact the most malicious libel ever uttered by an american president against his own country. Slavery existed in africa for a thousand years before a white person ever set foot there. It was calm and as when you would conquer your enemy. Not aristotle, not jesus until right christians in england did towards the end of the 18th century and the british colonies at the time that slaveowner named Thomas Jefferson wrote in to americas birth certificate that liberty is a godgiven right in the quality to. At the cost of 350,000 union lines, slavery was abolished quickly than in the western hemisphere. Every black person alive in this country owes their freedom to america, that is the true dna of america, not racism. The libel that its racism has a second malicious attack which is to persuade large numbers of the communitmembers of thecommunityh and to alienate them from this country and make them feel like outsiders. They were here from 1619 you cant speak of American Culture without black culture. It doesnt exist and one can go on and on. So this is a terrible effect on black people in this country and on the rest of us. It sometimes takes years to get a crucial facts like this right into thand then it can be undone next generation. It sometimes takes you a lifetime and let th the presideu dont learn over a lifetime. You cant trust anyone under 30. 30. I was youthful arrogance that nobody should respect. The reality is you cant trust anyone under 30. They dont have the life experience. When i was a youngster about 11 or 12, a book came into my progressive household. My parents as you know were cardcarrying communists. The book was titled we charge genocide. It was a petition published by an organization calling itself the Civil Rights Congress and it was a petition to the un to condemn the United States for genocide against black people. In the front piece is a photograph. Is there a projector that is going to photograph of . This is the most famous photograph of a lynching, two men hanging from the trees and a white man facing the camera pointing out anybody that has seen the pictures of lynchings hopefully would be able to get it up briefly. It was incredibly disturbing to me as an adolescent, and its still disturbing enough they dont want us to show it while the staff is present. Its a horrifying photographs with ten or 20 years before i read enough about lynchings. It wasnt devised for black people. There wasnt a racial dimension and its terrible and evil that it is a frontier justice. Lets not waste time with the process and have the punishment before the trial. I also learned a third of all the victims were white. That tells the firs you first ot wasnt devised and it wasnt a practice but they had allegedly committed crimes that were worthy of hanging. So most of the cases were not grabbing a black person and stringing them up from the tree. They were hangings to punish people for crimes which they had been accused. In this particular case, the two men were abram smith there is a companion who was 16 at the ti time. What happened i just happened to tune into a program where they interviewed James Cameron who was an old man about what happened, and what happened was the three of them had been accused of murdering a young white factory worker and a raping his girlfriend and they had broken into the jail and took them out and strung the two up from the tree. Thats the famous picture. You can see the crowd is white. They have been accused of murder. According to James Cameron, they had actually committed the murder. According to the white woman allegedly raped, she hadnt been, so this would have turned up in a tribal. The murder charge was right and this didnt make the lynching right. We had a due process in the country for a reason to protect the innocent. Another fact about it is James Cameron arrested with them and the reason was James Cameron said. He didnt participate. He stayed in the car. And he probably would have been hung for being black. Except a white woman in the mob stood up for him so they let him go and he was subsequently tried and convicted of being an accessory before the fact and then he spent his life fighting for civil rights and in 1991, the state of indiana pardoned him. You can fin find out that all ou look up indiana lynching. They wrote the song strange fiction, and it was used in this book in the symbol although obviously once you know the facts it is a lot more complicated than that. Another thing i learned late years and years later when i have become conservative, so 20 or 30 years leader is why the petition was brought to the un. After all this is around 1950, 51 when america had been through the Second World War and fought the master race in favor driven by the fury of the race and the conscience of america was awakened and the barriers broken down. Truman integrated the civil service. Jackie robinson became the first black participate in Americas National sport. Before brown v. Board of education integrated the schools. So in the first place the charge of genocide, that is a deliberate campaign to exterminate the people with whats going on today in the muslim world. Obviously was not the case. Wow, the Civil Rights Congress, which often does petition with the communiswasthe communist pad was one from moscow as we learned through the soviet archives. In eastern europe, there was a trial taking place in czechoslovakia. The kremlin had accused the top leaders of the communist party. Because 11 of the 13 liters were jews in other words, did we charge Genocide Campaign it wasnt about black people at all it was about using black people against the United States to neutralize the bad publicity that the kremlin was getting in its campaign against the jews as everybody knows. This progressive tradition the parents were communists and never refer to themselves communist always us progressiv progressives. They live today in the Democratic Party that dont care about the black people, it doesnt do much for black people except throw them from his and pride of their leaders to keep the community in line with. In the inner cities they get crumbs. The Democratic Party controls every major inner city in america. 100 and has the 150 to 200 years. Everything thats wrong with the inner cities in america, every oppression come every deprivation, democrats and progressives are responsible for the destroyed School Systems that year in and year out dont teach these kids to read and write massive failure works. They would go to the death to defend the unions that provide the slush fund for the party. I would have to go back to this later but using it is what progressives do and thats why every year the Democratic Party will run, black churches will burn and so forth and so on. Its disgusting and racist. I learned late about these fac facts. Ive done nothing for politics since i was 10yearsold. I understand most people cant devote themselves to the arguments investigating these things coming and im sure the facts that ive laid out here are obscure or invisible to people actually even watching cspan which are people that are highly politically educated and informed to begin with. I went on to raise a lot of money and ive written about this extensively for the black Panther Party. The black Panther Party was seized by the vanguard of the revolution and i bought into that and was seen as a vanguard because they would take up arms against the police come and stand up for the oppressed. Actually, prior to the 60s, the greatest social revolution in Race Relations ever in the history of mankind is taking place. In 1940, 4 of black americans were in. In 1960, the figure was 49 . Just a remarkable transformation and it was still only the beginninat thebeginning of the n that was taking place. But on the left, we saw them as an oppressed people and revolution was the only thing that would transform their lives. And therefore, the left despised Martin Luther king. We supported him in 1963. Then as things got more and more radical, the despised him and turned their back on him in a pretty isolated figure when he was assassinated in 1968. Anyway, i saw the black Panther Party as they were willing to stand up for themselves. It didnt occur to me that the black Panther Party had no significant following in the community of oakland and the areas where they were prominent and in fact feared by the local community. I have this progressive racism in me and i saw them as symbols of everything that was wrong with america and thats why i raised the money for the black Panther Party i didn party iden to the sign. I raised a lot of money to build a black Panther School and went to buy a church and turned it into a black Panther School. The woman named betty who had three children and works for me editing the largest magazine in the lef left and in 1974 that he disappeared and by the time the police fished her body out i knew the panthers had murdered her. I was the end of my career because all of my progressive defended the panthers and i knew if i said what i thought i would be denounced as in i had a family with four children and it took me some years and i fed disinformation to journalists and they published the first story. The panthers were a street gang. They murdered a dozen black people and got away with it. But this delusion, this progressive delusion, this melodrama of america having racism in its dna it is metastasized if we come to the present. In 1999 or thereabouts, i was walking down to berkeley street and ive spoken on 100 College Campuses an and saw what the students were being taught. It occurred to me i was familiar with the curriculum it is politically correct to hate white people and i determined right and im going to write a book with the title its politically correct to hate white people. I did write about. The publisher had first of all when i told my new york publisher i had one of the biggest divisions of simon and schuster publishers that i wanted to write a book how it is a politically correct idea, my editor told me we will never publish a book with that title. It would have been a bestseller. So i had to go to get this published and it was called hating other progressive causes. In 2001, i became aware of the campaign on american campuses. This code of reparations awareness and it was a campaign to get reparations for slavery. This was 137 years after the fact. It would have been a Reasonable Campaign if the reparations were to be paid by the confederacy and not by the United States government or the citizens lost 350,000 lives and i spent i dont know how much the government to spend but obviously it was a lot of money and it would have been reasonable if there had been any children of slaves or if White America was opposed to any federal program that would actually help a black people. So i conducted and attempted to take out in College Papers called ten reasons why reparations for slavery is racist in its the sam its the e president s statement that racism is in the dna of america because it alienates them from their country. Even the name africanamerican, africa isnt a country, its a continent. I dont know how many different languages theyve spoken and how many nationalities there are. African americans for better or worse or americans and they should be proud of it. Theres obviously some like sheriff clark who do so. But they are considered race traitors for the progressives. It is a bigger misnomer as liberal. They are intolerant. We all know that they are not liberal about anything except harvard drugs and sex and spending other peoples money. Thats what they are liberal about. They dont want two sides to a conversation. Thats why i have to take bodyguards when i appear with other speakers and im sure everybody is familiar with those committed by the totalitarians who call themselves progressiv progressives. This is a throwback of 100 years, thats what it is. Its no accident that they support the totalitarian threats from islam. Today we have a movement called black lives matter. I dont mean stirring people up from trees, but lets have the punishment before the trial. So they help to burn the city of ferguson which is 60 black. The demand from the head of the rightly spent. Thats what it was about. It was supported by the president of the United States. Dont think that barack obama is a racist, then you tell me how as the chief advisor of Race Relations was the racist al sharpton and convicted liar by spreading the lies and never pay the penalty. There were 4. 5 million in back taxes who could get away with that. He would never get away from being a racist. Al sharpton is a racial arsonist who incited his own mob. There was a store owner in harlem and he cited on his radio broadcast followers to get them out of our community. There were seven people of color and al sharpton today is the president to go to person on Race Relations. This is what weve descended to end it started with the racist race hustlers targeting white people. Youre guilty just by being white and if you are black you are innocent. Even if the facts eventually show that he forgot the like o. J. Simpson. Black lives matter claims that its the entire socalled progressive liberal culture. The Democratic Party, the Democratic Party officially endorses the black lives Matter Movement. They ruined the life of aaron wilson, the author who was defending his own life against a three street thug Michael Brown who attacked him in his police car reaching for his gun and how many people out in the Television Audience would do Something Like that . That tells you everything you need to know about him. He wasnt picked on because he was black. He was picked on because he just committed a strong armed robbe robbery. He was alleged to say it was his accomplice in the robbery. Or freddy gray or gardener. Predators and who do they pray on . Black lives matter and if you want to know where this problem comes from it comes from the School System over to what i called neo communists. America is a racist country and a repressive country and anybody who goes to war with america has no sympathy has our sympathy. I wonder my ex comrades on the left were going to support a monster like saddam hussein, and they did and they did it again in 2002 and 2003. The hatred is so deep seeded its hard for the conservatives to fathom otherwise there would be many more conservatives talking the way that im talking now. But i know it because i was there. White