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Host professor will come. I am looking forward to what the listening audience to get through the pages to follow the story line. But you start in the preface to talk about leadership. Were you thinking about a book of leadership when you started . Guest leadership is one of my preoccupations. That is what i was going to do but i was struck that not only with the facts and figures with the sad state of infrastructure but i was also of a tripping on potholes and stories of innercity people who could not get to the jobs or wed take two or three buses and subway to get to school so but first raise subway connections we went to another city in 20 minutes so all of those things together made me feel this is an important issue. You were a help with the whole project talk about the need for a new america at the end of the Clinton Administration we have defense spending and preoccupation we havent made those investments were i am p ....
I was just curious. My first question actually, sam, i only have the pleasure of meeting him today but ive known sam for a while. He works for a member of congress, so sam, you are unique in the sense that youve heard this term here in arab american and a hispanic american. The Hispanic Community, theres a lot of similarity between the Arab Community and the Hispanic Community. One that we can never replicate are the numbers. The Hispanic Community has large numbers and has developed clout but it took a while for their community to mature in terms of their political activism and their understanding of how they could be involved as a communit community. Its not to say that the Arab American Comm ....
Were going to go into our next panel, next discussion. Unfortunately, one of the congressional candidates that we had texted me about 3 00 a. M. Picture from himself on a plane. He was going to be taking the red eye from california to here to be with us and then taking the flight right away back. Unfortunately, his airplane had mechanical problems and he was unable to make his connection in chicago, but we have two of the young africanamerican congressional candidates. Were going to have a discussion about political activism. Theyll talk about their campaign. We will then break down to a discussion of political activism, how were active in your local communities and how we can sort of learn from each other and how to best become active within our own communities and why thats important. To lead our conversation, we have with us mr. Eddie adiu. Thats fine. Thats fine. So i want to thank everybody for being here today. This is something that adc has not done previously but i think its cr ....