martin luther king deserves the credit. he made a dream come true for everyone i am so proud that our city is recognizing all minorities. we have to stick together because we have a long fight. what keeps me going and i have fought for mar mr. king, i helped to build it, i sit down and the streets when the police would be us, they did not want us to have this. i fought so hard and i saw many things. one thing that i will live to see and i am proud, i am worried about the future for the people. i hope that all of you take this in consideration, makes them proud, stopped them trying to kill each other. if you can be anything in your dreams can come true. that is all i wanted to say. thank you. [applause] >> to all of the supervisors that are present here today, i truly want to say a thank-you for the invitation of granting us the privilege of being here as african americans, leaders in this community. i want to began, i myself being a young african-american female student in their rural south, 8 years old, not really knowing

and i was trying to get . get him to think and join martin luther king's movement. and i think he was then thinking about doing that, and he came back to america . and that's when we had this tremendous discussion, all the time. as a matter of fact, the black panthers threatened me many times. they caught me in an elevator at the palmer house in chicago and said, "we know that you are with martin luther king, but we want you to be on our side. and if you're not going to be on our side, when you come to harlem we will get you. " and of course . scared to death with these four beautiful strapping men, you know, pinning me up against the wall for the wrong reason. (laughter) ek: you don't say anything. (laughs) absolutely quiet. and when i came to harlem to do the apollo theater, they were there when i was doing speeches on behalf of martin luther king and trying to . they were ridiculing me, of course, and they threatened that they would get me again. but i stood my ground and walked from the seventh avenue theresa hotel to, all by myself, back to the apollo theater,

martin luther king, jr., and the place just like boom, okay? now, by the way, let me back, you know, there was some discussion in the preplanning march on washington on who was going to speak -- >> host: and how long. >> guest: and how long they were going to speak, right, right. those of us around martin and more tin himself felt he should be the last speaker. we thought it was not appropriate for him to say i want to be the last speaker. okay? so it was raised, and there seemed to be some resistance to it. i said, come to the meeting with me, okay? they are talking about, well, i think that, you know, one of the reasons you want martin to speak is because you know he tends to speak so long. i listened to the discussion. i'm not getting into names, but they were all jockeying for position on who would be the closing act. finally, i looked at them and i said, now, i want you to think about this. do you really want to follow martin king? think about that. just pause. do you really want to follow martin king. they said, why do you say that? i sai

>> i have always been an a lot of martin luther king when he was shot, i was seven years old. i lived in philadelphia at the time. "the philadelphia inquirer" included a big color photograph of keying and i take it over my bed. i don't know what it was because i was too young to understand but i don't know what it was that was so captivated to the seven year-old white boy in suburban philadelphia but he has always been a great source of inspiration i also have always known at least that he was human and had his own frailties and laws and did not always do the right thing and not always as courageous as he should have been. but, to be what is most great about martin luther king not that he had so many great qualities but he could overcome his own inherent limitations. he went to college at the age of 15. when he was a boy, his teachers, i read a bunch of introduce, they said there wasn't anything special about him intellectually. he could not write at all and almost never spoke. but you could tell back then that he had a determination to do something. he did not know what it wa

martin luther king jr. had faith that we could break the chain reaction of evil, of hate begetting hat. edward m. kennedy saw an america where we could contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone can make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity. on this day, let us rededicate ourselves to what is best in our country. surely we know it when we live it, as these two men lived not just for themselves but for others. one of them told us, "i have a dream." the other affirmed, "the dream shall never die." [applause] in the name of that dream, but with a full and grateful heart, with a sense of the humility that he would feel tonight, on behalf of my husband, i accept this salute to greatness award which, above all else, expresses the legacy of the greatest visionary our nation has ever known, dr. martin luther king jr. thank you. [applause] >> next, the latest on the political unrest and violence in libya, including remarks from muammar gad

i said you're right where martin luther king and my father said martin luther king freed the white man. absolutely true. that is the statement by father made when he signed the legislation. if you have abraham lincoln freed the slaves, you do have martin luther king screen the black man. and you have ronald reagan talking all his life about freedom, so we have martin luther king and ronald reagan, one free white man the whole thing with black america. ronald reagan thinking about freeing the people behind the curtain. >> host: wife and did your father not support the civil rights act? >> guest: you know, the civil rights act of the time in the 1950's the republican party was the one who really forced that to be passed. >> host: that's right. >> guest: i wish i could answer that for you. >> host: you never asked? >> guest: the fer asked. >> host: it's interesting. the contradiction. one of the interesting things that has come out is on his christmas vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald reagan, and -- role of a lifetime. >> guest: she chose wisely. >> host: will the

martin luther king." and we're going to pretty much have a lot of subtle messages saying, "well, what if this happened to america? and this is how we feel." and i happened to be in hamburg, germany, when all of it was going down. and like i said, it was like--it was a highlight of my career, being that we played in arizona with u2 in sun devil stadium, no pun intended. you know, everybody was expecting the big p.e. show to open up for u2. and we played that song and then got off the stage. and by the next year, they voted in a dr. martin luther king holiday. my whole thing was saying that you can spur and you can trigger minds into not being so much asleep by using art, using song, to make them think progressively against what's wrong or what's ignored. oftentimes, when we're not heard or seen while we're in pain, you know, it's business as usual in america. and my whole thing is to say, "well, sometimes it can't be business as usual, because slavery was business as usual." and if you have the discussion

king's birth day. >> i started my practice in 1998, so on that first martin luther king day, there was a family that had some needs in my office. i said come by on martin luther king day, i'll come this. so it kind of grew from one family. and i said, again, as a dentist, what is the best way i can give back and the best way i can give back is with what i'm trained to do. >> he said when he accepted hishi hisdy l hisdydy proceed in a, he was never going to leave anybody in discomfort. and that was the truth. the african proverb it takes a whole village. >> community has whu my entire life helped me to get through some challenging times. and so part of what i'd like to do here is just make a thank yo& back to people because i have been able to be successful as a dentist. thank you for making the time to come in. i know you're busy. it's so enriching when you give back. when you give from the heartñand you see the experiences that come out of that. >> giving is something this doctor does freely without hesitation or reservation. >> they don't turn you away it at the door. you almost bec

luther king -- my father said martin fer king through the white man. absolutely true. that's a statement my father made when he signed the legislation. if you have abraham lincoln signing this leaves, you do have martin luther king freeing the black man. and you have ronald reagan, all these fights about freedom, so we have martin luther king and ronald reagan freeing the white man, the whole thing with black america. and ronald reagan is thinking about freeing those people behind an iron curtain. >> host: why then did your father not support the civil rights act? >> guest: you know, i really wish i could the answer that. the civil rights act had the time in the 1950's the republican party was the one that really forced that to ultimately be passed. because i wish i could answer that for you. >> host: you never asked? >> guest: i never asked. >> host: that's interesting. it's interesting like a contradiction in retrospect. one of the interesting things that has come out on his christmas day vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald rea

luther king. the pope at the got attention and it is red and totality. but the quote the got pick up the tension was ronald reagan was a far better friend to black americans than barack obama has been. did you anticipate that maybe that would be controversial? >> guest: absolutely. >> host: sometimes you write articles just to see what will happen but again i made the point. the point is when ronald reagan went in as president of the united states united states and he was assigned at -- wanda signed the legislation that created martin luther king day. here's a guy that took the unemployment black community from 19% down to 11%, forget the decimal point to at that point in his time period. it is now up 16%. he took the middle-class blacks and they moved up. the black community grew by leaps and bounds in his administration and he was not a man -- he was colorblind from what i say in the article and write in the book. in fact here is a man who went to school and the last living member of his graduat

>> martin luther? >> martin luther king. martin luther king saw that ghandi succeeded. so if we think back to sugar and we think back to this idea that a product can link you to the person who produced it, sugar is responsible again for most of the atlantic slavery, for millions of deaths, for horrible brutality, and indentured system that left many, many casualties. but sugar also was used by the abolitionists, led to the ending of slavery, the first in the world. and inspired gandhi to develop the conflict of nonviolence resistance which would then be used in india and come back to america. so if you go now, when you go into look at the label o on the candy bar you eat, or the serial you have in the morning, and it says sugar, you will know that in that one word is magic is the spice, is slavery, is freedom, is science. that history is right there. and it is therefore you do know and it is there for you to know what you think today. what am i using? what price am i paying? who is paying a price what i enjoyed? what links me to the people of the world? and i will tell

>> martin luther? >> martin luther king. martin luther king took -- saw that gandhi succeeded. so if we think back to sugar and we think back to the idea that a product can link you to the person that produced it, sugar is responsible, again, for the -- most of atlantic slavery, for millions of death, for horrible brutality, for an indentured system that left many, many casualties. but sugar also was used by the abolitionist, led to the ending of slavery, the first in the world. and inspired gandhi to develop the concept of nonviolent resistance which would then be used in india and come back to america. so if you go now -- when you do and look at the label on the candy bar that you eat, or the cereal that you have in the morning, and it says sugar, you will know that in that one word is magic. is spice. is slavery. is freedom. is science. that history is right there. and it's there for you to know and it's there for you to know when you think today. what am i using? who's -- what price am i paying? who's paying a price for what i enjoy? who links me to the people of the world?

martin luther king jr. said, music has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms, when courage began to fail. and it has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. ♪ there's too much hate, too much hate ♪ ♪ always in this world there's been too much hate ♪ ♪ too much love, too much love ♪ always in this world these been too much love ♪ >> belva: that's all for tonight. visit kqed.org/thisweek any time to watch complete episodes and segments. subscribe to our newsletter and our podcasts. and share your thoughts about the program. i'm belva davis. good night. >> major funding for arts programming on "this week in northern california" is provided by diane b. woolsey. additional funding provided by the george frederick foundation, helen sarah

martin luther king jr. said, music has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms, when courage began to fail. and it has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. ♪ there's too much hate, too much hate ♪ ♪ always in this world there's been too much hate ♪ ♪ too much love, too much love ♪ always in this world these been too much love ♪ >> belva: that's all for tonight. visit kqed.org/thisweek any time to watch complete episodes and segments. subscribe to our newsletter and our podcasts. and share your thoughts about the program. i'm belva davis. good night. >> major funding for arts programming on "this week in northern california" is provided by diane b. woolsey. additional funding provided by the george frederick foundation, helen sarah >> history unfolding before our eyes as egypt is transformed and the middle east is shaken tonight on "washington week." all eyes are on egypt and iran and israel but most of all on the people. a revolution broadcast live transfixes is world. >> t

martin luther king jr. said, music has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms, when courage began to fail. and it has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. ♪ there's too much hate, too much hate ♪ ♪ always in this world there's been too much hate ♪ ♪ too much love, too much love ♪ always in this world these been too much love ♪ >> belva: that's all for tonight. visit kqed.org/thisweek any time to watch complete episodes and segments. subscribe to our newsletter and our podcasts. and share your thoughts about the program. i'm belva davis. good night. >> major funding for arts programming on "this week in northern california" is provided by diane b. woolsey. additional funding provided by the george frederick foundation, helen sarah ♪ (female) the three of us, we're all from australia embarking on a 5-week roadtrip traveling to the united states. (female #2) talking to people that we admire or who inspire us, sharing their story about how they got to where they are now. (fe

the first gave a wrong location saying that it was at the martin luther king. when have across the place over the park. >> and also getting to the proud it took 20 minutes. the race was sponsored by kaiser permanente a. >> and as a sponsor only were not involved in the operations, the staffing with the medical response. questions about the medical responses should be directed to the rodico, the even organizer-- >> and with witnesses and the are watching him lie on the ground with no medical attention question and where help was. the city's deputy director of emergency management called this " insufficient. and that that private defense have their own emergency resources and the of vent fell back on the city for help. reporting in san francisco, kate thompson, kron 4 news. >> a walnut creek restaurant this wtonight at the buckhorn on the kitchen stove. it quickly entered the ventilation system in the attic. storage items in the attic caught on fire. it took 30 minutes to put out that fire. >> no injuries. >> and a water utility on gary rd after 7:00 a.m. that wa

martin luther king. because he scared the hell out of them. when king went to birmingham, 50,000 people went with him. win can get up in april of 1967 and riverside church and denounced the vietnam war and called america the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, lyndon johnson took away before plan -- plant closed fbi agents that had been assigned to protect king. they knew what that meant. it was a beautiful moment. remember, can, like malcolm, became a pariah at the end. he would be booed by the back -- black power movement, dissension within his own ranks. southern christian was disintegrating as an organization. king stood up two months before he was assassinated in front of his staff and said, i take non-violence to be my lawfully wedded wife in sickness and in health, till death do us part. only by going back and standing for these moral imperatives we have any hope of protecting what is left of our anemic democracy. and we have to stop asking whether it is practical or even rational. we have to believe, as these great figures befo

i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i was born without arms around my heart that wants to embrace everything. palestine's, israelis. japanese, apaches. i am more concentrated with life and love than flags, nationality, religion. that stuff gets in the way. one gets in t

martin luther king, jr.. we have a very quick presentation. they will present a brief snapshot of some of the latest data we have from the california healthy kids survey. this is going to be very quick. then we will have a summary of the tools and materials that we will recently be distributing as well as ongoing resources and classroom lessons that are available to promote and maintain a positive school environment that is respectful, kind, and nurturing for all students, every day. >> [unintelligible] >> the surveys are administered every other year. we are happy and proud to say that we have generalized data. we are starting with the high school administration. we have the results of the california healthy kids survey. 57% have been bullied, hit, or pushed. >> as you can see from the seventh grade, 35% have been harassed. >> these numbers have been consistent since 1991. >> they hear fag, dyke, or so gay at school. according to students, they do not hear teachers addressed. >> the high school, 6% of heterosexual students report the same tha

>> martin luther? >> martin luther king saw that gandhi succeeded. so if we think back to sugar everything back to this idea that a product can link you to the person who produced it, sugar is responsible again for most of atlantic slavery, for millions of, for horrible brutality, foreign indentured system that left many, many casualties. it also led to the ending of slavery, the first in the world and inspired mohandas gandhi to develop the concept of nonviolent resistance, which would then be used in india and come back to america. so if you go -- now when you go and look at the label at the candy bar you eat with the serial hub in the morning and it says sugar, you will know that i'm not one word is magic, insights, is slavery, is freedom, and science. that history is right there and it's fair for you to know this they are for you to know when the. what am i using? what price of my pain? who is paying the price for what i enjoy? but thinks me? i will tell you on the cover are both, these children. chains is now. this is in the dominican republic t

she indicates -- indicates the forum that will be on martin luther king day, monday, january 17, 2011. he has come today to talk about it. >> i'm learning. thank you. item e is the council report. >> [speaking spanish] >> good evening. happy new year to all of you. we would also like to welcome and congratulate the new commissioner murase. she has been essential to us. >> [speaking spanish] >> we would also like to congratulate and welcome the new president of the board, mendoza. to the new -- congratulations. >> [speaking spanish] >> we would also like to greet you and talk about the opportunities for work in the district. we know we are confronting a serious financial crisis, but we have opportunities to work with the parents. hall and the district. -- parents and the district. >> [speaking spanish] >> we will be working and have been working with some members of community organizations. we have been organizing an assembly that will take place next february 13. sorry, january 13. >> [speaking spanish] >> the goal of the assembly is to let the personal about the district, about the s

luther king jr. library there. the president of the san francisco league of women voters says it was sometimes a painful fight as depicted in the movie iron jaw angels. >> women were arrested in front of the white house during the administration. >> california was the sixth state to give women the right to vote in 1911 but it took congress until 1920 to pass the 19th amendment to give women across the country the right to vote. the league of women voters will hold celebration. hope you'll join me there. you can log on to our website and click on "see it on tv" for more information. >> a college baseball coach has made the ultimate sacrifice play and he calls it a no-brainer. wake forest coach tom walter and one of its players kevin jordan are both recovering this morning after major surgery. walter donated a kidney to his freshman outfielder. he has been undergoing dialysis 20 hours a day all the while attending school. none of his family members were a donation match but his coach was and stepped up

luther king junior library at san jose state university. nationally the battle for voting rights started much earlier in 1848. in new york. it was the first-ever convention to discuss womens' rights. the fight is graphically depicted in a movie called "iron jawed angels". >> there were hunger strikes and women were arrested during the white house. there were strikes in prison and force feeding. >> they said the reason was obvious. >> taxation without representation. women were working and contributing to tax base. >> city by city, the women lobbied men, and finally it was successful in 1911. california was the sixth state to grant women the right to vote. then, women were harassed at polls. >> that is one of the reasons the league of women voters was formed to, make sure women were informed and educated voters. >> nationally it would take 72 years for congress to finally approve the 19th amendment in 1920. it granted all women in the u.s. the right to vote. >> my mother was born before women could vote. my daughter got to vote for her mothe

martin luther king junior to his wife coretta scott. hello, darling. today i find myself a long way from you and the children. i am at the state prison in reidsville which is about 230 miles away from atlanta. they picked me up from the dekalb jail at around 4 a.m. this morning. i know this whole experience is very difficult for you. especially in the condition of your pregnancy. but as i said to you yesterday, this is the cross of that we must bear, for the freedom of our people. so i urge you to be strong and faithful, and this will be in turn strengthen me. i can assure you that it is extremely difficult to think of being away from you, my little yuki and marty for four months. but i ask god hourly for the power of endurance. i have the faith to believe that this excess of suffering which has now come to our family will in some little way serve to make atlanta a better city. georgia a better state, and america a better country. just how i do not yet know, but i have the faith to believe it will. and if i am right, then our suffering is not in vain.

martin luther king, i think everybody should be treated equal. even the people with mental disabilities, they should be treated fair. you wouldn't want that to happen to your kids. let's forget about white supremacy and let's start over. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. my name sl ribbi adi cochran. we have a problem here, and the problem is we have many mentally ill patients that have been shot or injured. and it behooves the police department to consult with the comperlt which in this case was the medical profession, the psychiatrist, the psychologist. we always learn something new every day. even the police department can start something new by talking to the experts. many police departments in the country have done so. even in israel they have done so. so it would be wise also to to ask people to con sult. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. >> i still don't fully understand how c.i.t. works. what i am happy to see in there rezz is i will have an opportunity to understand and learn how c.i.t. works. what's good in this res

luther king jr. library there. the president of the san francisco league of women voters says it was sometimes a painful fight as depicted in the movie iron jaw angels. >> women were arrested in front of the white house during the administration. >> california was the sixth state to give women the right to vote in 1911 but it took congress until 1920 to pass the 19th amendment to give women across the country the right to vote. the league of women voters will hold celebration. hope you'll join me there. you can log on to our website and click on "see it on tv" for more information. >> a college baseball coach has made the ultimate sacrifice play and he calls it a no-brainer. wake forest coach tom walter and one of its players kevin jordan are both recovering this morning after major surgery. walter donated a kidney to his freshman outfielder. he has been undergoing dialysis 20 hours a day all the while attending school. none of his family members were a donation match but his coach was and stepped up

and also martin luther king jr. and we were in the aftermath of the church investigating committee in the u.s. senate that showed that the cia particularly under kennedys had committed serious crimes, even of assassination. so there was a disillusionment on the part of the american people with washington. and that was the main thing that i emphasized. i told them i would never lie to them and so forth, and i emphasized the fact that i was from the deep south. i had been out of politics and all of my predecessors had, that i was a peanut farmer and can that sort of thing. so it was because of those volunteers in texas and other places that i never had before that never had been in politics before that i was finally elected. as a matter of fact, amazingly still to me, i ran against one of the best men i've ever known in texas, and that was lloyd benson. i beat lloyd benson 2-1 in texas. which was amazing even now to me. but i had kind of a groundswell of support among people who had not been involved in politics befor

all lanes of king king -- martin luther king boulevard were shut done after a man fired two shots at a squad car. of more officers surround the area, the suspect was arrested 15 minutes later. investigators say they recovered a hand gun that was tossed in a backyard. >> thousands of giants fans were drawn to at&t park to see their hometown heroes today. the turnout was so big some people left before they were table get in. those with a little patience had an experience they won't forget. lisa amin gulezian has more on today's giants fanfest. >> lisa: at this year's fanfest, thousands waited for hours to get into at&t park because it reached capacity fast. and then this happened. [shouting] >> lisa: fans rushed the second street gate and tried force their way in. many admit they felt shut out. >> after driving down here from sacramento, waiting in line to pay for my parking, after waiting for the traffic, waiting in line to get here, painting my body orange and black, this is how i get repaid. >> fan appreciation day, should have planned a lot more. >> fanfest organizers say they got

tell them the story of martin luther king, in new york, malcolm x. some day, some time -- and a lot of black people go to church. those ministers in church, i tell them, do not preach about the hereafter, preach about none now. we are losing too many young minds. do not tell me that there are no good african-american doctors. my grandson became a doctor. there is nothing there to stop him -- he is supposed to graduate in april. [laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause] >> you have said what families need to do. as a person in school, we know how much of our children's time is spent in school. we are often the surrogate parents for a leng

martin luther king, i think everybody should be treated equal. even the people with mental disabilities, they should be treated fair. you wouldn't want that to happen to your kids. let's forget about white supremacy and let's start over. thank you.

i grew up 20 miles away in a town that put martin luther king in jail for a few nights in 1963. when they heard the story of hog zila i wondered why people killed things they don't understand. i would like to read hog zila this is the first timei've read this part one is what i'm reading today. killer of kid and faun, muddy wallower trichinosis and tick. trap smart, nonnative gar gant wan flea bag you root in the oak brush of bogs and swamp. if we killed you now, hog zila, if we took aim for your belly with our cross bow or laser sight and pulled a trigger or let a tripped arrow rip through the night air there wouldn't be a story to tell. while we lay and wait for you to appear, chewing our ciao and the fat lit up on beer, lit up on the last of the evening light. we will harness you in speech, laszo you with language and make you bleed like the common pig you were before all this celebrity. in dreams you are bigger than you will ever be. you must be made to suffer for your mystery. the origin of hogzila. are you spawn of desoto men? long snouted do your upper tusks sharpen the l

in addition to that we had about 200 people show up for martin luther king, literally clean up the neighborhood. we took garbage out of that neighborhood and last saturday we opened a brand-new library. what it tends to do is build the community.them introduce them to each other, historically a black working class neighborhood. before -- it used to be a more of a white and japanese american and today latinos are moving in. so the neighborhoods are changing and we're trying to bring them together and take more responsibility for their kids. >> reporter: what is interesting to say, you have the community engaged now. it can't just be police. you are strapped with the budget and strapped with the bunt of the police force. so police can't arrest everybody. >> community involvement. we need the police. you asked me earlier, i'm perceived as being anti-cop. i wasn't the police officer's union candidate but cops should be assigned to neighborhoods so the neighborhood can get to meet them and hire a bunch of different programs to support community go policing. we have gang outreach workers and that is

as martin luther king said while celebrating the birth of a nation in ghana while trying to perfect his own, there's something in the soul that cries out for freedom. those were t t cries that came from tahrir square and the entire world has taken note. today belongs to the people of egypt and the american people are moved by these scenes in cairo and across egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in. the word tahrir means liberation. it is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for freedom and forever more it will remind us of the egyptian people, of what they did, of the things they stood for and how they changed their country and in doing so, changed the world. thank you. >> in this fast-moving evening with the events unfolding, the celebration in tahrir square, american president obama saying that there's sometng in the human soul that cries out for freedom. he also mentioned east germany and its own revolution, peaceful revolution that brought it freedom and democracy. for more on the german reacti

. >> exactly just a couple weeks ago we had martin luther king day and had a gathering downtown, in the gardens for the celebration of that and the celebration of him crossing the bridge. >> we have a minute and a half, this being very close to catholic schools week, i wanted to just talk about catholic schoolsin general. many are vibrant in the archdiocese some are struggling can you say a word about catholic schools in general? >> we operate 54 elementary schools, high schools are often more successful in recruiting students than some elementary schools, but my mantra now is that what matters is not school buildings being full, but children in desks, quite frankly when the last couple schools have closed, 100% of the children in that one school, the next year were in some other catholic school and 90% of the other schools students were in another catholic school there may some times be consolidations but it is not that fewer students are going. >> nationwide i was reading there is 2 million -- more than 2 million students in catholic schools in the united states in the archdiocese alo

you said you went to martin luther king speak one day. we sat in the cars watching the girls talking doing what boys do and we paid more attention to the girls than the king. question, any regrets about those comments? >> just the truth. i was asked about my childhood. my daddy died when i was two years old. my mother raised my two older brothers and me and we couldn't have had a better situation. i mean she was -- ran the concession stand at the little league. she was the first woman president of the booster club for the high school football team. and so i had a wonderful childhood. and that is the truth. as far as the deal about what martin luther king was passing through and stopped at the fairgrounds to speak. i was in high school and a few car loads of us and boys and girls went out and sat on our cars on the street while we couldn't even hear very well. but, i was interested in seeing what was going on. it wasn't any big major event. it was -- >> chris: but people i saying you are insensitive or were insensitive. >> look at my recor

. >> drumming calms that and i know i have loved your drumming, beginning with martin luther king services when i was there. i know we had a different kind of opening but your drumming is known throughout the bay area. your contribution is attitude and healing. >> it is really like a community center, and a whole entire focus is to utilize creative process, to eliminate violence and fear. we define racism, poverty and violence as life threatening illnesses. >> that is one of your books. >> yes, beyond fear, 12 keys to racial healing but it is about racial relationships, and i share with you before we are in a mixed marriage, pokomon is an african and i am an american many times people don't see that difference but you know differences are also inside how we speak our language, you know, our cultures, how we do things and attitude healing is a wonderful process for young people we do leadership training for oakland housing authority. we train almost 80 people a month in core values and looking at the rules and regulationlooking at ways they can become a good neighbor. >> why are these guys

luther king. but it wasn't -- it's not enough to put your bodies on the line. you also have to think intelligently. you think strategically and creatively. there were a number of people in the movement, many of them that day.mac did very creatively. the civil rights movement was above all a highly intelligent movement. it was creative in all types of ways that invented a lot of everyday strategies intact if the politics we now take for granted. one of the strategies of the civil rights movement uniquely brought to america politics didn't invent it, but they brought it to a mass scale was the part is of civil disobedience. in nonviolent resistance. now, the reason this is how important is quite a bold. the state according to max weber and others have a monopoly on the use of force. it has a monopoly on the use of violence in society. so if you try to meet the state's power with violence, you're going to be vastly overmatched and thrown into jail. the only way to make the power of violence is with n

luther king. but it got attention. read in its totality that we don't often write our headlines. ronald reagan was a far better friend to black americans that barack obama has been. >> guest: did you anticipate that would be controversial? >> guest: absolutely. sometimes you write articles justice he what will happen. the point is when he went into he went into the unemployment from 19%. forget. it is now a 60%. he took the middle class blacks. they moved up. the black community grew by leaps and bounds in his administration. he was not a man, he was colorblind. here is a man who went to school. the last living member of his graduation class just turned 100 last year. >> host: happy birthday. >> guest: he saw that a black woman, more than one, went to school with ronald reagan he was absolutely amazed. he was raised in that timeframe when in schools in the communist world there were made to read uncle tom's cabin. they are thinking, my gosh. america is all like this. he finds out that ronald reaga

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tell them the story of martin luther king, in new york, malcolm x. some day, some time -- and a lot of black people go to church. those ministers in church, i tell them, do not preach about the hereafter, preach about none now. we are losing too many young minds. do not tell me that there are no good african-american doctors. my grandson became a doctor. there is nothing there to stop him -- he is supposed to graduate in april. [laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they should play. we are not adequately educating these children. the classrooms are too crowded -- that is all over the tv in new york. they blame it all on teachers. i think the youth deserve better. that is what i think. [applause] we have to start not when they are a teenager, but pre-k. [applause]

i would read the civil-rights leaders, martin luther king, booker t. washington. i would read about them for fun. my mother would take me to the library, and those would be the books that i would pick out, because i guess i wanted to be inspired by great leaders who did great things, and black leaders made me proud to see black people do something amazing that made the world change, so i cared about that as a kid. i cared about civil rights and social justice, the idea that the world can be changed and made better by people who are willing to take risks and fight for what is right. i have always believed inbev, and that has left me interested in what is going on -- and i a always believed in that. that has left be interested in what is going on -- and i always believed. it is something i have always paid attention to. i have grown in stature and in the public consciousness, and giving me more opportunities to speak out, but i have always been thinking about it, and i have an interest in what is going on politically. tavis: i personally think that dr. king is the g