Senator Bradley, of the all white United States Senate, said "We can't get there, unless we all go there together." Sorry, none of us are where he is -- that's number one.
Number two. You're making a moral appeal to a country that doesn't have a moral conscience.
The question becomes, that when white people feel serious, and angry, and upset about abortion, they come out in the thousands, up to the millions, to say, "This is what we believe about abortion."
Where is the white outcry against white racism that murders African people all around this entire globe? It doen't exist! So, who are these white good people? I want to meet them. I want to see them.
Professor Cornell West states that he knows a few and then suggests that that "might be all that we can get":
A few is not enough. And guess what? I don't work with "all I can get". What I work with is what I have... listen. You have to have some confidence in the power of African people, amongst ourselves, to establish foundations. And, no we haven't. We have utter chaos in our cities and you got to...
Broken dialog in crosstalk with Professor Cornell West:
You can have a program. I can say... I'm not say... We built a lot of institutions and those institutions have not been effective! The majority of millions of African youth in this country are dying mentally, dying spiritually, dying emotionally, dying academically.
And, you may have a program, Mr. Brown may have a program, but what we have got to talk about is an American government that tracks millions of African people who don't go to your program, don't go to Brown's program. Millions of African people, not only here, but all around the world,
And, if we are not honest enough to say who are our friends, who are our enemies, to know what a friend is, to know what an enemy is, we will constantly be trying to get into people's parties, to shake our butts with them, to get them to like us, and that's not the question.
The question is, "What can we build amongst ourselves to secure ourselves from our enemies, so that we will be able to survive into the future?