The congresswoman from tenth Congressional District in florida how did that job prepare you for it as a job of a member of congress quick. A 27 year Law Enforcement officer and chief of police and i have dealt with people in just about every facet. I have seen the results of could government and bad government so i am excited about this opportunity to serve in the special and different way. Water your priorities . What did you campaign on specs. Nationalsecurity even down to a neighbor security is a top priority in is foundational with the american dream. Police Community Relations criminalJustice Reform to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them and has nothing to do with the Second Amendment but the mentally ill criminals or domestic abusers and education is the key to success to make scheerer every child has access to quality education and protecting the men and women who protect us and making sure they can retire with dignity. On the gun issue how reducing the orlando shooting impactive the debate quick. When i was appointed chief crime was that the all time i was when number one priority but removing crime and guns from the street but we looked at the homicides most were committed with firearms the orlando nightclub shooting now has a title to be the deadliest mass shooting. But i really believe it has provided an opportunity just like the others to come together and lets get to work on this issue to better protect those represent. And is their momentum for that price. Thiis a tough conversation because it is underscored by the Second Amendment right side carry one in my possession i get it it has nothing to do with Second Amendment rights but historic plea be have seen some movement on both sides of the after the nightclub shooting and we are trying to keep that momentum of. With police Community Relations what advice would lead you give to the new head ministration if you could talk to the president elect . No doubt that overwhelming majority of the men and women do it well they risk their lives for strangers everyday we do have issues that need to be addressed and as we continue to hire the by the end the brightest and best as we talk about training talk about sensitivity training to making it mandatory regardless of what they believe will be better equipped to police more diverse community. Have you thought about the Committee Want to serve on quick. It is a work in progress but with the safety of our nation, as well as making shirr we keep america moving we have 1 Million People who visit Central Florida every year transportation is a key concern. Still working through that process. Thanks for your time upcoming is the republican from york. From new york 19 district a republican who won the swing seat. What is it like representing the swing seat likely to be targeted . Is a different for you than the other freshmen members that are very safe Republican Democratic seats greg. Undoubtedly be approach is probably different than the one Party District progress have said all along that not all the wisdom is on the republican side or the democratic side each side brings points one of the reasons that motivated my candidacy i am frustrated with washington and inability to get things done because the left is on ennis nbc and the right is on fox talking past each other there is no one and democratic republican solution so i bring my own philosophy but to get things done we have to Work Together across partisan lines. I am hopeful that is possible and want to see as croats this economy we have to get more economic growth. Often people say they want them to talk more and stop talking hat each other so what is your suggestion as to get to know each other during orientation . If we get to know each other is a willingness across party lines. There is a lot of issues with the democratic commissioner or position where like tax reform and makes no sense for the corporations that and bring their profits home to be double taxed taking most agree with that double taxation is not an incentive we want the dollars to come home to be invested here. Theres a lot of areas on the personal and Corporate Tax side and obamacare is falling apart under its own ways we need a consensus of what comes next. This is for one to work across party lines. 19th district Bernie Sanders got involved what is the of lesson as they are the leaders are reflecting from a week ago . In my district the most important thing is local. I responded and talked about issues that were local oriented. In terms of job growth growth, different areas of the district large part in the watershed area the bluestone Mining Industry the department of Environmental Protection you can protect that but it is a vital industry eye focused on local issues of the different areas of of a district whether lyme disease, of bluestone mining , hospital reimbursement rates, people want to representative to come here to work on National Issues but somebody is responsive to local issues and there was the contrast in that regard. Acustar and local government in the 70s. No Purpose State legislator in the 80s. What do you bring from State Government to the federal government . Princeton certain issues not every problem as a federal problem not every problem has a federal solution and common core is a perfect example that is an issue the way it was handled because the state was attracted by the federal money and they rushed into this with no way to know what to do or how to do it so some issues it was the state and local issue not federal. Thanks for your time there is a huge civic mindedness in American History and not compelled by the government. Everything from monster flick burgers with 1420 calories and 107 grams of fat, 20ounce cokes and pepsi, 15 teaspoons of sugar , feeding an epidemic of childhood obesity. There is a thousand entries there is a Small Community there there are really active users another 20 or 30 that no little bit then they think of themselves as a community. Then i did my senior thesis it taught me an incredible amount but mostly it taught me what it was like to be a serious historian to sit in the archives all day every day and i realized that was not for me. Genius is not putting uh it to dollar idea with 20 but a 2 idea sdoesnt loses meaning. Legacy on race issues and criminal justice. Speakers include Republican Campaign adviser, former faith advisor to president obama and the story to Marion Frances berry. This is part of the Government School conference on grace and justice race and justice during the Obama Administration. Well, it is now my pleasure to introduce the moderator for todays opening panel. Kelly is the host of under the radar airing sundays from six to 7 p. M. Her commentaries air monday during the weekend edition. Shes a frequent commentator, local and National Television and radio programs posted in the New York Times, the politico and Washington Post and has appeared on broadside, cnn reliable sources on the media, pbs news hour and take away. She appears weekly on wpg htp, examining local and National Coverage and frequently hosts Current Events considering communities of color. Shes also been the recipient from the nieman journalism and the john f. Kennedy school of government. Also the producer for i is on the prize americas civil rights that found her an oscar nomination, National Emmy and the dupont columbia award. With that, im going to turn over to the moderator to introduce the panelist. Thank you. [applause] i will start by introducing the panelist and we will talk about 45 minutes and then there will be time for each of you should ask a question so you can be prepared to do that after we started speaking here. Every one of the panelists was a robust biography. You will not hear it now. Im going to give you the one sentence on a per page. The geraldine arts professor of American Social thought, history and African Studies at the university of pennsylvania. [applause] joshua is the founder of the values partnership and former head of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. [applause] bthe assistant professor and department of African American studies at princeton university. [applause] and Michael Singleton is the republican political consultant, writer and political analyst. [applause] i know our panel title this opportunity and opportunities missed. We are going to start on the opportunities end, which is the uplifting side of the equation and i want to begin with someone who has much gravitas set of professor berry. He worked with several president s, so when we talk about race and justice and at the age of obama you can bring up a context i think few others can and i want to y t oornit u e fr t picpepeivthat presidt ama has be ae to ke captain hav happen . Im a cynic because i served in some capacity in every Administration Since nixon, republican and democrat. So when i look at obama when he was running for office, i was excited about it and they looked at him in the context of all the other administrations that i knew about and never believed in hope and change to begin with because i knew too much and i also teach so i didnt know too much about it obama, not to be too cynical because i dont like to discourage people, but the opportunity that he had was to show what joe biden said about him was correct that he was clean and articulate and would always be that way. But coming to the president he wouldnt be frightening to anybody and he had all of the right credentials and had been authorized places i places and d alplaces in the punchbowl to wrd some engaging personality and was really smart, and no one had to be embarrassed by what he did in the way that he behaved with his wife and children, his motherinlaw and all the things he did that he would engage in the model personal behavior which he did do. He also knew from the speech he gave at the convention that he was a wonderful artist and i happened to have written a book about it called over and words about all the speeches he made in the background of all of them so you knew he was incredibly lucky because the senators he ran with and against collapsed in the illinois race which gave a leg up and he was incredibly lucky because he was from chicago, and the islands look at the chicago tv and everyone knew him and people came from chicago in the first primary and when i told bill clinton and hillary was going to lose they should stop running and bill got mad at me. [laughter] so he had the opportunity to show when you are black and have the opportunity to do something, and ive been in that position a lot of times when i saw some people say you are going to mess it up so much that people can never do it again i dont think anyone can say that he messed up so much that nobody black can do it again. Racial inequality has been touched, the people that got still get and give more and is not only that but the article the other week about people that are educated and have College Degrees and come to place this like this in the job market they dont get the same opportunity to move up so capitalism is safe to. We havent had a widespread rebellion and the deplorable as i guess they are called are still out there. I think the opportunity is to show with the right credentials to write kind of man can do the job and hes done the best he could with what he had. Is there a specific policy that he was able to take all that but you just said and make that work in a policy that you think exhibited his use of the opportunity . I think that obama didnt use his policies and opportunities in the first term as effectively as i would have liked to see. I was present at the creation of the Affordable Care act and they know that lots of people come advocates at the end tried to ask them to put a public option in the Affordable Care act coming int and the democrats had control of congress. They could have done it, but the other thing that is a more grievous failure is they left the whole wide enough for a truck to drive through so the court could find medicaid didnt have to be expanded and millions of people who live in the poorest states in the country, mississippi, alabama, a lot of folks, his constituents and all that all across the country are covered because they were trying to hide what was in the bill from the republicans and they didnt let the staffers that had the expertise needed the bill as nancy said lots of people, they didnt know what was in eighth but theit butthey got it passedd the majority you cant blame on the republicans. They had a majority. The other thing i say he should have done better i would have hoped in my opinion is the race to the top using that discretionary money for the untested, untried, i evaluated money that could have been spent on programs for kids who are out on the streets now stealing and robbing and shooting each other and for them to be in school and training and job programs like they did at one time cooking the 60s and 70s, and afterschool programs and vocational programs to get them off the street which are tried and true. They are not just pieinthesky check it out. They are trying the truth. Im going to stop you there because you are going into my opportunity [inaudible] i approach you on this question with some interpretation because you began when president obama came in by saying he wasnt on your plan but i want to ask you to dig deep and find the opportunity that he was able to make happen in terms of policy. I think if i can the president has done a relatively decent job. I think in particular if you look around at the country at the africanamerican youth even hispanic youth and poor white who share the same communities as those groups, he is given a lot of hope and inspiration and i think for a lot of minorities who believed of course you can accomplish whatever you put your mind to an america, that wasnt quite fully realized until you did see the minority become the first president of the most powerful individual in the world. That is something i dont think any number of case studies, you cant quantify with Something Like that for the community of people and if you look at places like chicago and baltimore, new orleans, other cities, and my grandmother happens to be an educator and i visit often and talk to a lot of the kids there and they lived in an environment i could never imagine. When i ask them what you think about your future, how do you see your self and would you want to do once youre done with high school and going to college, etc. , more often than not they say i can do anything now. When you ask why, they say look at president obama and michelle obama. I constantly reflect on what that means and its puzzling. Im not quite sure how to figure out what his presidency has meant to so many black and brown people. And again, i think thats something that you cant quantify and maybe you can theorize that it, but for me thats not a policy, its beyond policy. Its something that i think and i hope will potentially uplift the entire generation of people so that is an opportunity for me. You start from the position of faith, but i know that at the selma 50th anniversary, you connected the Civil Rights Movement was president obamas legacy. Legacy. You saw the connection and spoke about it. So im wondering if you see that as his opportunity. [laughter] i am a person of faith, but i would like to talk about [inaudible] concrete policy achievements that weve seen over the last eight years, and then we can move after that. First, the africanamerican Unemployment Rate at the height of the recession in 2010 was 16. 8 at last monday was 8. 3 . Because of president obamas intervention, and i was there at the beginning when he wrote down pennsylvania avenue to switching arms on capitol hill to make sure that we got the stimulus act passed and he made the moves on the Auto Industry that he didnt support the Unemployment Rate has been cut in half. The second thing i would mention is the Affordable Care act. Certainly much more could have been done. The public option would be ideal and was very much immersed in the negotiations that was a little known fact. A black woman graduate of Harvard Law School and the first cabinet secretary drafting a lot of the language even with the flaws in the Affordable Care act some are non seniors and its been cut in half since the beginning of the open enrollment period. That is a big deal for their reallife individuals that have Health Insurance because of president obama. Obama. A few more things. The president has permanently banned the use of solitary confinement for juvenile offenders. Thats a huge deal. I used to work at a juvenile facility in cambridge and interacted with number that spend weeks or months in solitary confinement. Thats not allowed anymore. Im just solitary confinement but with juvenile dissension in general we have 30 fewer juveniles