At Howard; Dr. Cornell West

Just like to never be another Curtis Mayfield. Never been a Fannie Lou Hamer Ella Baker. Never been a Malcolm X. Like a jazz musician you got to find your own voice and for Christians you find your voice which all personal relation with your Creator the Holy Ghost that mediates that. And as you find your voice to it in humility do it in self-criticism do it in a spirit of service to others. Hello I'm Patrick swaggered and you're watching at Howard. On this edition we're going to hear from Dr. Cornell West recently spoke at the end to rank a memorial chapel currently Dr. West is a professor of religion at Princeton University and a prolific

writer prominent scholar and intellectual. He is no stranger to Howard's campus. His style has been described as a mix of such diverse elements as the African-American Baptist Church pragmatism and Marxism. He is often controversial but always thought provoking. And so I want to thank God this morning. Dr. Cornel West. Not just for his accomplishments scholarships activism. But also because of his heart. He is a scholar. And a gentleman. A gentleman. And a scholar. And that's so important. For you to know today. That. He come to Howard University wherever he goes not. To be. A few years ago he came. To us.

Under. An illness. And I literally I literally had to push him out the door. That he was about to fall out but he would not leave until he greeted every student. In the Frampton auditorium. I want to thank. Our choir. And it's so true. I don't know about you but. She's. Saddened to make Jesus my choice 45 years ago. And. I'm going to be faithful. Unto the. Faithful none. Can love Jesus if you don't love your name. Every neighborhood not full of pride but you'll find my man. You know how some Christians.

Love thy neighbor but negroes Jews gays lesbians with. Families or so for nobody left but you're free you're free love your neighbor as yourself. Ok love you Maybe if you don't hate injustice. I have a loathing of unfairness. Concerned about the least of these echoing the twenty fifth chapter of Matthew. I want to begin by saluting my dear brother the Reverend Dr. Bernard and you know Jesus. Thank you and nobody. Came out. To. Go through. The service. Thanks. Thank our team years of service. Thanks a beautiful saying in these days and times with all the glitz and glitter to see somebody get quiet dignity. Sterling character has integrity very deep humility.

I met him when he was a student at Yale Divinity School that just a few years ago. What can I say about The Tempest. What can I say I've known him for 21 years. You say I've known him before he was to have a smile. He's the same brother. Met. S e l c when he was working as in turn building on a rich legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in sunshine land California Los Angeles. But he's from Kokomo Indiana. Born in Gulfport Mississippi. Grew up in a trailer with 13 kids and mom and dad in three rooms. Best have a smile y'all. Thanks Allen. Thanks. Thank you. Now he's known all around the world. And this is a great day as a choir saying in many ways it's a new day because when you are number one in

the New York Times bestseller list you sent out a sign to the nation and the world that you serious about subject matter in that text and the Covenant with Black America is about some very serious subject matters about such an ale. It's about folks wrestling with social misery is about trying to come to terms with their grief and their pain but transfiguring it into a vision. That's what the Covenant with Black America is about. I want to thank tabs for that and I wish we had enough time but that bring you up to say where would you get get to play and. Get back to Los Angeles. But he told me on the phone brother Wes what are you doing on the day that the book appears to be number one on the New York Times. I got four way activities on Thursday and Friday I get three on Saturday out. I only get one. He said Well I'm flying to the East Coast to be with you to celebrate together.

At historic. Howard. University. That. Was number one. New York Times. Best selling. Product. I'm not. Going to tell you. What makes a good show how it is not just any institution of higher learning. My own colleague Tony Mauer's Nobel Prize winner Nanking six trebles blessed the girl with her when she went to Stockholm Howard University. Both undergrad as well as professors. Freedom fighters like Stokely Carmichael and the Klan. As Howard University are all here. That's not all of Howard University. Some wonderful things about this grand institution unlike any other institution it has its challenges.

That's why we love itself. We're all incomplete in on finished. Individuals and institutions salute each and every one of you this morning. And I'd like to say a word on the topic. Now is the time. For courage. Now is the time for courage. And I want to be autobiographical today precisely because I want to reflect on the book bring them war. Dialogue. Brother tell us the first thing that comes from. Me. How do we keep track of the least of these in such a way that we keep alive the rich tradition of struggle for freedom and dignity rooted at the blood rooted in the blood at the cross and courage is the first thing that comes to mind.

And I love doing introduction my brother. I love the introduction because when I think about the little courage I have been able to muster in the 52 years that the Lord has assigned me so far the be in space and time. I say to myself Thank. God. I'm my mom. I thank God I'm my dad is key and I want to be a better servant for God's kingdom. Which is to say what which is to acknowledge from the very beginning. We are who we are because somebody levelers somebody cared for somebody and tended to it. Somebody can track. All of us and all of our fine attuning failings and. Defects and if they fall off. But we also recognize that we've got to situate our stales in stories bigger than our sales to locate ourselves in narratives grander than our

sales. So one of the first points in talking about Carrie which is this so credit moment with very important that we have a so credit dimension to our Christian faith you know. Very important. I don't think it aligns 30 to Plato's Apology that says The unexamined life is not worth living but you and I know the examined life is painful. It takes courage. To examine yourself in an unflinching manner. It takes courage to interrogate just self it takes courage to look in the mirror and see not just your phenotype but who you really are when you take off the mask who you really are when you're not just on the go. On the same old routine same old social roles becoming so well adjusted. To ingest it. Takes courage to cut against the grain become non conformist rather than conform It takes courage to wake up as opposed to engaging in complacent

slumbering takes care is to shatter. Cowardice cowardly ness. One of the wonderful things about the Covenant is that it's a sign. That something is happening in black America something is happening. In America and something is happening in the world y'all. It's an awakening of those the late great James Cleveland call ordinary people. Then when ordinary people wake up. The leaks begin to tremble in their book. They can get away with the abuse they can't get away with subjugation they can't get away with exploitation became get away with. Domination. But it takes courage for folk to wake up. Most would rather escape or live a life of that level of superficial reality. Howard University is all about Pi Day an education system that tries to get you to

wake up so you move from the frivolous to the serious from the superficial to the substantial. You cultivate yourself and undergo maturation of your son. But that hurts it hurts. Why. Because in the end it's fundamentally about wrestling with forms of death not simply acknowledging that yes we're made in the image of God but we also featherless two legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces. That's awful. And one day our bodies will be the color never delighted to rest or worms you know bet. Be on it. Put on your three piece suit if you want to. That's not on my game to death. And when you look deaf in the face. You have to say who am I really what is the real body of mustard. What's the depth of my

love. What price am I really willing to pay for what I believe. But call some out willing to bear it for a cause bigger than my own egocentric predict come May. I ask the question. And mothers and forefathers who first stepped off the slave ships away introduced into a whirlwind of white supremacy called the America they had to wrestle with that question Who am I really. What does it mean to be. Q And we know our word the English word human comes from Latin to mando which means burying. That's what the Earth is and what the dirt that's what humanity and hew mad humility is all about being connected to to grab them. Black folk call it the phone. Keepin it real. That's not just rhetoric. George Quinn's opinion.

Alexandra. Steele is back in the blazer. That's too old for ya but I like it. Fuck. That stink in stench and love push that got us all out of our blessid mama's years. And all movement to the tomb. Who are you going to be in the ME. In the interim nobody gets out of space and time alive. My dear brother Amos so good to see. Recall our discussions in Italy about this issue and the degree to which if you don't muster the courage to think critically about Shell situation you will end up living a life of conformity and complacency. And in fact you lose the very rich tradition that has been brought to you by your grand fathers and forefathers.

And what a challenge it is one of the worst things older generation tell young folk with to be successful at that. We broke the back of American apartheid a German Janko. Be Successful be successful they begin to think My God freedom is really about material toys is really about personal security. Who told you that lie. About self-respect and suffer garden suffer to terminate the public service all of the. Above. Willing to sacrifice. About speaking the truth. In recognizing you might be wrong but to die for it if you look at. Where it happened. That spirit. Is coming back y'all. For some of y'all that took care of. Katrina to wake you up. And thank God we've got these wonderful students here to wake up. We knew this so sure hurricanes a Katrina all shot to American Empire. For the last 40 years. Given his ice age an ice age is nothing. But an age in which is fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering.

Somewhere already great William James said indifference is the very trait that makes the varying weepin if that's the case then Heaven is overflowing with fart of the. Tears of angels given to loss. Keeping track of the humanity of poor folk disproportionally black folk in New Orleans. But it's not just New Orleans. We can talk about chocolate city b c we can talk about sides. We could talk about the soft sentiment. And not just black folk we have white poor brother this is an Appalachian. I'm a Christian I love him. I started home gets better I do start at home. No doubt. But all were just lost and brain ya know embracing towering figure in Kentucky marching with Martin Luther King Jr. Just off. William Sloane Coffin a towering figure in New England and you say Lord have mercy.

Brother sister how wonderful they just have so many cousins who need work. Who need deep work. But the. Pointy ears and brain so long tough rows apart. Dave. I still haven't gotten that would definitely. Be Me man must be. One of the freest black men who ever walked the earth Richard Pryor. I. Want to know. For you Gene Reckitt Shand life. Means so much. Wilson Pickett. I like when Sony say you have forty nine hits but I believe it. Still a towering figure. We lose in our whole host of It's a whole way that we're losing. Last time I spoke to.

The chap talked about the death of a genius names to puncture cool September 1996. Next time I'm at the chapel. The birth of a movement. Death of a genius. Birth of a movement. Look at Chris Scott King Michael. Why the Chinese. Well John you know I was so upset if you. Couldn't watch it colonized by powers that be that's what it was. But their brother Harry Belafonte. That's cool. They feel for the king. Family paid for monkeys feel. Supported the family when they were down and out disinvited. By the White House by a lot of farmers today.

The powers that be the tail fall how to bury their dead with dignity and integrity. Hijacked a legacy of Carette and more. You know. The west the family was involved I love the members of the family but they must be responsible too. Oh yes there's a connection between your relation between the dead in the Quicken those who are still here and those who have gone on on the other side of the Jordan. And how you bury them says something about how you are living now. Is this something. Thing about the quality of your service to them. And is so we see to lose the best of what folks have honed over the centuries. And one of the distinctive characteristics. Of black.

Folk is that we have been willing to be so credit because we've been willing to be on intimate terms. With. Death without allowing death to have the last word. What do you mean by the way. Were you me with slavery 244 years social debt. No public value whatsoever no social status whatsoever just commodities to be bought and sold. Labor exploited. Behind a. Deep graded mine called into question. Beauty's reject it. That's the threat of social death. What was the black response left saying in a rain shower and saying in such a way that we create the first artform in the history of American civilization called the spiritual soul of the globe and people all around the world. Have to take note. We might have no political rights we might have no land or territory but we can still take back power because that's what democracy is. It's about those last phone.

Call every day people taking back power in the face of even the abuse of power. Sometimes the only thing you have. Is just still voice and your body so you just take back power in terms of how you're seeing and how you're stylized space and time with your body and how you walk. That's the formal follow her walk like you talk like you would sing like you would do the Ten Commandments economically Marjie hip hop. You are hear these blood brothers out here just turn in father for his racist criminal justice system that targets him is such a disproportionate way with mandatory sentences in the different to treatment between crack and powder cocaine. Just making sure that in some way they're pushed into a prison industrial complex that has profits on Wall Street. Was the response of. Africa a bum bottom what you got to say current chaos want what you got to say. Law and heal what you got to say.

We dealing with forms of death on the street. But we gots our voices to raise even in this studio and we keep playing as soon as it will so we can sample. Their Your sample flagstone your sample. James Brown got a sample. Print. Prints will let him sample. But you'll get the point. Intimate forms of death. Well as Jim and Jane Crow but civic death no rights for me respect for American terrorism ever to have days and back channel one baby hanging from some tree for half a century half a century. Was response black people to American terrorism. Is a little different in the White House.

World. The 9/11. Vicious attacks by gangs on innocent people is wrong. I'm against gangsters in all colors. I grew up with some gangsters. I love and try to transform but stay out of the way. True. The more you down should not keep aloof distant from the brother. You know what I mean. 24. Love him or. Don't come to my house. Get yourself together for you want to have dinner with me. The peace at the door you know. Like. I. Don't know what I'm tell mom. Now 11 the first time in the history of America all Americans feel unsafe unprotected subject to random violence and hate it for who they are. To be a nigger for 400 years in America unsafe unprotected summit a random Island. Created for

who you are. What happens when a nation is in some sense neurons. But the response. Was the materials mother didn't allow then they had the last word. No she didn't know she didn't. She stood there with grace and dignity and Robert Temple the Church of God in Christ. Casket opened. His head with five times the size. It was ordinary. Where did she say to the world. I don't have a minute to hate our pursuit of justice for the rest of my. Life. What our. Statement what our level of spiritual maturity and more wisdom. She didn't say it on our own. She was produced by a tradition of people that say we're going to be so Craddock in raising questions. But unlike Socrates who never shed a tear he never cries. These particular people fell in love with a Jew named Jesus who was a Lazarus he wept for Jerusalem. He refused to act against them. Even when he was against the

law. Even when they put him on a cross. Use the tail law refused to demonize other people. That's when you're too deaf. That's what our young folk need not just success success success they need greatness greatness greatness there's something different about that. I come from a traditional says he or she is the greatest among you will be a servant. But you end up one obsessed with success prosperity rather than magnanimity security rather than integrity. You know with a generation of peacocks. Walking around to do your beautiful full of LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME. I'm so successful. I'm so accomplished. Look at me. Breakthrough. On the force. I'm the first one. On the force. See. The end of the market here my grandmother said from the back room. He got struck because they came flocking to all.

The old. Get off. The. Hook. You're so wrong you. Talk to death or you are. The only advanced world in Johnson and his brother Rosamund say don't become so in. The drug war end of the world. Don't become so intoxicated with the felicities the Bush White says. Bling bling would know even though no way. Is nothing but a form of idolatry that leads towards fear to mount a new. Mission in Afghanistan to. Help in the fight. You come out of a traditional service some of those not just service to others but like Jesus you take joy in a knock. Came. To kill. Why because you know that you can never repay. What your mama did for your father your grandmother and grandfather. And if you're a. Christian. You'll never be able to.

Pay the price. Did Jesus say. Only. For. You know over there. You see now. That the father. From. The look in our church just said they are God mad all the time but too many up they turn the blood in the Kool-Aid you know with. Their. Hands stuck so all you do is just hit me and so you just keep movin out with mobility you go in church with an investment strategy. Now pay X and you give me my Lexus you give me my blessing you give me my home ownership you give me my social status. You give me ma bouchal war. Cameron will go to somebody. You can see to a T. Before you see a crawl or oh we see the law. But it. Makes.

My blood boil because I'll never forget when I was wrapped in the booth and I made my promise I'ma love my way through the darkness. Oh yes I don't mind being a little successful cause I got the baby to take care of and I got my mama to my father. Don't. Go home they'll be successful. To the degree to which I can take care of. Them. Just like this probably here turned 40 years old and give one. Million dollars to Texas. Woman me. Operable. She will. Be. Her. Home would become and it would rock American tells our dear mother Haki Madhubuti. I would not pay one penny. Third World Press would publish the text. And. Every. Game will go to you because this is the question of the people empowering. Them sale. How rare it is among our celebrity brothers and sisters then we gotta love them now. This is. For all.

Because one of our problems we can have a candid discussion with one another and criticize one another without thinking to put an end. We had. We just lovingly disagree. I love Mr. Lewis. He's got a deep love for black people. Death threats every day. I don't agree with all of his vision. I'm part of the King legacy. I'm going with Jesus. I don't care what this. Objects experience. I've got a love only in. But that doesn't mean I refuse to love him I embrace him. When he stood here in front of this. Bastion of power of legalized bribery and normalized corruption call the U.S. Congress. We got some decent congressmen and women but not too mean. He stood there and said White Supremacy must be for America to live.

He's absolutely right. I would say male supremacy must die for America to be absolutely right of anti-Jewish hatred must die anti Arab hatred must stop. And. Even hatred must stop. Homophobia must stop hating the physically challenged must stop. Hating the elderly must stop. Hatred. And also you know sayed. You say hatred is the coward's vendetta against those who intimidate. Let me say that. Hatred is that the word being against those who wish to meditate. So if you hate me and nothing but I know you're scared you can't come to terms with the insecurities in your peers Anyang wish your pain is real but how do you transfigured that pain isn't one that is transfigured by the love of the girl.

But as we know it. Indiana Gary somewhere around. Said Jesus save us from your followers. Ago. Some of the most dangerous folk. Talking about Jesus Christ. Save us from. Some of the confuse the cross and the flag. They think America's the god. And that's nothing but the elevation of power earthly. A lot of black folk fall for. A. Lot of blood. You got to love them. But just point out you're wrong.

What a shame you grandmamma's even agree to follow the fiction. Yes he was a member end up ATP but I'm right wing now. Oh I see. It's so easy to jump on the bandwagon of indifference and complacency and some just downright opportunistic. You can just see just the meat. That. Was. ATM lining up can't wait. To get paid. It's true. Be a truth teller and a witness bear for love and justice. That's what the cross is about all. I can hear the God of the universe saying don't play with me and don't play.

And if Christians themselves don't step out the neuron because the two minute children living in a two minute disgraceful school systems in Chocolate City to. Their lap and dated housing in the city to many on available child care. Health care folks. Not enough jobs with a living wage. Unemployment. Under employment. And corporate greed at the top running now MACH. 1 percent of the population owns. 51 percent of the well. All the darkie can plutocratic to some degree spiel pig Minto crowd. People run around what would Jesus do. Roman empire put him to a crawl. How can he confirm with the least of the he said all of us will be judged. Now show now how long a car years. Now which neighborhood you're

living now. What ritual you undertook not what ceremony you tried to enact. What is the quality of your service the depth of your love or what price are you willing to pay. What burden are you will in the. To bear and be honest about. That means that you have what you think about quality of service away from the gangs. It's just who I am at the moment. I like that. Because God can work with gangs. God can go into sales and work with you now. You can catch a cold and work which is. The basic on Malcolm in the sale. God. Allows more home until we get him together. Linea doubtful I'd. Love to do that. And if you never been against a like situation you know I don't really understand what the blood is all about.

Folk in bad news situations fully grasp the depth of the good news. Been good new situations all your life you just been cruising. You ain't had no catastrophes in your life. No traumas in your life. No scandals in your life. No monstrosities in your life. Just living on the surface just skate the line was so enough I laid up a catastrophe is going to hit. And when it hit Jade you discover who y'all. And it comes in a lot of different forms. My dear brother Daisy I've invited Daisy to my class. Fame can be a catastrophe. Michael Jackson.

Come on man ask who you really are. You have to question how deep is not me. I am to the celebrity status to the camera and fame to that empowerment thing that comes out a different form. That's part of the bloods for everybody. For the cross is for everybody. But I am thoroughly convinced that. That is now beginning to take place in this country connected to what's going on in Latin America. Working people and poor people are beginning to wake up in the face of massive. Poverty connection with South Africa as in fact that fragile democracy under the great leadership of Nelson Mandela begins to become a beacon for others around the world even as it.

There's a kind of Santa Clause a vacation of Mandela taking place inside of them. Yeah it happens all the time on the King with King on the way the same thing. The most powerful forces against the status quo become like Santa Claus. Big smile domesticated tain de-fang with toys in the bag with a smile. All of a sudden all that love and commitment to justice get flattened out into just accommodation to the powers that be. You see it with Martin every January every January folk. Who opposed him. With the most clever strategy now to my much state level. You got to watch that. But you have to be truthful about it in terms of big knowledge in that for the younger generation. Imitation is suicide I will say that. Imitation is suicide and never been other Martin just like to never be another

Curtis Mayfield. To never be another Fannie Lou Hamer and elevate. The never be another Malcolm X like a jazz musician you've got to find your own voice and for Christians you find your voice with all personal relation with your Creator Holy Ghost that mediate that. And as you find your voice you do it in humility do it in self criticism do it in a spirit of service to. Others. And more than anything else and this is one of the things I love about my dear brother Richard. You've got to have a fundamental commitment to young people. They owe one hundred percent. If you keep it 100 with you then why do I say that because I was young once and I know I had not been attended to my gangster proclivities would have come to the surface. They would have become salient and had

demonic. I still have banks approach the 50 to given all the love injected me and given across. You can imagine what it be like without that. And I grew up in a neighborhood not a hood. It was all black but the neighborhood place with wonderful ties of sympathy and empathy keep people keep track of you. Know Hood. Survival of the slick. Obsessed with the eleventh commandment thou shall not get caught. That's what young folk because that's why I have so much respect for young folks even when I disagree with them because I don't know what it's like grow up in the hood. I don't know what it's like to be unloved. I don't know what it's like to have a father adrift and I don't know what it's like to have my mother overworked and underpaid. I don't know what it's like to have done whatever time I go to class. I don't know what it's like to go to school they don't have a textbook. But high quality. I pay tribute to what they're wrestling with even if I'm critical at a crack house with too many I'm in doubt.

Even if I'm critical of the levels of disrespect and disregard and self destruction and self flagellation that we see all too often in their relations with one another. And I say to myself I take some response. It. Should have taught him better how to be. You taught him better how to love. You taught him better how to care respect him fail. I know we're up against a lot with the mass media and so forth but we must take responsibility my dear brother Bill Cosby who I love deeply comic genius with the language of corruption must correction must be inform my language of compassion. They won't hear it that way. I know you love them to make sure you put them up. Front. When you talk about a year of responsibility as yet there's a lot of irresponsibility on the block. No doubt about that. A lot of your responsibility in corporate America with Enron WorldCom and I don't find that irresponsibility on the White House in the White House. It's important line in spying and torture in folk and so forth and so on.

Let's talk about the responsibility across our. Thought we was Muslim in the black middle class. Where is the moral outrage given the situation of black children. Where's the moral outrage given the president of the conflict with young brother. Second. Where's the moral outrage with domestic violence against excesses. What cowardly brothers kept abusing Vale. Well we think we can just float along an isolated little of monadic spaces. Run in the black folk these days telling me they are optimistic. Any time you hear folk talk about optimistic in this particular nation empire you know to talk about the individual personal project. Cannot talk about what's going on outside. And all. I'll never forget indigenous peoples. Forty two percent of the children living in politic in poverty and they only genocidal attacks over three hundred years.

Now forget about it. While because in the name of Jesus. Focus on the least this is a challenge I believe that the prophetic church can play a fundamental role if we are willing to go back at it and make sure that blood is thicker so to to get enough Alma so that you're not bad my dear brother T.J.. Look there we have it. Went out to dinner spoke with before we all want a salad. Oh. My love my dear but I think the spirit of genius no doubt about that he did with my life. You really have. But I think that political courage. Rolled all the way forward. Why would he say something like that to me. Because I think it's true. Was. Whatever your problem. You got high

visibility Harper's magazine the most powerful black man in America. That's a major bird. All of us a crack. Yes. Each and every one of us. So we need to help one another. And I said could you trot out some evidence that would allow me to infer that you do have significant political courage in your ministry. We had a dialogue. And I'm going back. I'm going back. Oh yeah. Why. Because people can change comes out of the different context. You need a certain kind of interaction into action with the right wing televangelists is not a healthy thing for those who love justice. Because they sign in on the issue of white supremacy and his vicious legacy when it comes the institutions are silent when it comes to male supremacy deciding when it comes to imperial policy.

It's just been a whole lot of talk and when it is right. You end up dialogue with Pat Robertson. You're not going to find a lot of the Profet at the lumen nation. All talk and go ahead. You're not all fine. Are you upset because I went into the White House are you upset because I have a relationship with George. A Christian should be able to go into a White House crack house Momma's House anything else in come out which a Wintec would take. Come out what she's. Come up with. Compassion. Come up with your commitment to. Come out anyhow so we'll. See how. And you don't need help McCain do it alone you don't need to go she told me before praying for you and you don't need a loving family if you put. An extra medical entrepreneurial genius. In fact

the New York Times bestseller list to text about the tab was pushed off both driven both night by early the sale of your Jewish brother Texan one hundred sixty. How much the whole the cost among Jewish brothers and sisters. Anybody suffering that same value there every human being has a value. Every individual made the image of God over chose night. I. Said OK you got a choice. Just hold on a night in America. Next one was a brother who lived with his name James Frey. When he left he just fabricated. Over driven. By the Tampa stacks no apparent Oh on a New York TV show. No appearance on Chicago TV show no appearance on L.A. TV show all

the charges all the time join up all through the networks to conduct advanced phone had my. Night. In a manner. Not in America. Embrace Oprah's entrepreneurial genius. Ask for accountability in terms of the political career. Of the true. Hip hop artist the same way Walker. Big an. Austrian so radical in the studio one could hardly get them at a political demonstration when it comes to police brutality. I don't do so courageous. Don't be so big and may even Kanye West get so nervous. Thank God for when. You get real nervous speaking the truth from him. Kanye said he'd probably use a whale in the studio. George. Bush has now put a high priority on poll. Basically black folk. That's not a. Highly controversial statement Gone Say it with conviction. They will come back. We got happen then. Don't hate the

man. Demonize the man. He's human. Talk about the effects and consequences of his policy. Then here come a problem of infinite value. Because of two quarters half a dollar fifty cents or of our economy is wrong about that Kanye is wrong about that. What do you say in 50 Cent. George Bush is in love with poor people. George Bush's policies. I like black people. Come off it is then. We know you've got 9 bullets in you we're praying for you. To speak the truth the. Real Truth. Come on now. We are following out here. Look. For one point one for me reckons the first week. Of the. People listening to you. Listen to a little Gil Scott-Heron. Maybe they're. Listening to them. Last Call with. A little bit. Go back and read Sterling Brown southern road of nineteen thirty to Annette park

wonder rocket. Turn of the last poem strong men keep calm and strong men getting stronger strong men love and so much that they will enough sacrificing to keep their kids with dignity it organize against the bosses and keep the government honest. That's Paul Robeson. That's Ozzie Davis best James Baldwin. And is the system going and it's let me bring this to a close. But all I'm saying is now is that while I am. For her courage to think you have the courage to love. In. Such a way. That is not some sentimental manmade Pammy sentiment. But it's a dangerous force that led to Jesus on the cross because that's the kind of love I'm talking about. It's Congress is a cash cow you can touch it you can

feel it you know in fact that you empowered by it when you connected with that kind of love and last the courage to hold that too much cynicism around too easy too much pessimism pessimism optimism. Flipside of the same coin we reject the whole thing. The Christian faith is not about optimism is about. As the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. That's something else. But when you're optimistic you can get some speck Dettori of distance and stand away and look and see at things the color. But when you're full I hope you're right in the midst of the muck and the mire and the park and us thank goodness. And your spiel working it out. With that love power that you got. And your commitment to justice and your connection to the story and tradition that helped shape you. So I say to each and every one of you any time you talk about

it. Keep in mind. Everywhere you go you out of the blue heaven by. Going to heaven or you leave the bottom of your commitment. To love just the sacrifice service. That lets you out what university. Was. We got the number one. The sun. The moon. And the man. And. THE MAN. Going to a son. Looking up. At the sun to work it out. For good she says. Don't forget the cross. Don't forget your grandmother. Don't forget those who claim. To love you enough. The sacrifice. For. Me.

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