thank you all for coming out tonight i think we're at a really important time to have this discussion about a black student revolt then and now and i got a minute that i am distracted assassinated by the seattle police department couple days ago and after you hear gerald description of what happened and watch the video and listen to the audio i think you two will will know that this black man in seattle was assassinated by the seattle police department and to to be there and to hear the description and to hear the family speak about what was taken from them that they can never recover from it was overwhelming it hurts to even recount it but we have to we have to keep telling these stories because as they pointed out they killed a man and the media reported you guys probably saw this in the seattle times the media was clear that they hadn't killed a human being they had killed what they killed a felon that was what was reported in the seattle times headline armed felon shot by the police and then the police sent that story it's all the news media and they just like lapdogs just took it and republished it right as if what had happened in the past had anything to do with those thirty seconds when they asked him to put his hands up and he complied and then they asked him to get down on the ground but he was only a foot away from the car so a man who is six foot four and he's one foot away from the car how does he get down without it appearing like he is moving towards the car that's what they said because the car door was open that he was lunging towards the open door you need to watch the video and listen to the audio for yourself and you'll know that there's no way he could've gotten down without being near the open car door and that's why you ask him to back away from the car if you value his life but what happened was somebody said there was suspicion of a suspicious car in the neighborhood well why was it suspicious because there were black men in a white neighborhood in seattle but it wasn't just that the police showed up and gave these orders they had undercover police there and then they had tactical teams with assault rifles and then they had regular squad cars how do you have all these different teams there for just reported suspicious car that is a basic question that anybody who valued human life would ask of the police but we don't have that with the current news media so they just publish the story as the police reported and we are incredibly fortunate that we have family that refuses to let that be the story of their love one and is fighting back and they have the support of some very important leaders in the city have been fighting racism for a long time and we're just at the very beginning of exposing this assassination of another black person and as gerald hankerson pointed out they didn't just assassinate him because he was a felon because they killed rice a twelve year old who was in a park who had no record it doesn't matter right his skin marked him as guilty and that's why they were able to shoot him down and it's time that we build a movement right here because as they pointed out at the press conference seattle is being used as the model they're telling us that  actually president obama flew out our chief of police for the state of the union address so the seattle police chief got front row seats at the state of the union address and then afterwards obama praised our police department as the model of reform i can tell you from my own personal experience having been pepper sprayed in the face on martin luther king day by a crazed police officer that this is not the model of reform but it wasn't just that i got sprayed in the face by some lone wolf officer the main problem is the where's the accountability right because the chief of police directly intervened in my case to say that to overturn the office of professional accountability is recommendation so the o p s ruled in my favor that i had been assaulted right that the officer had not followed protocol and had violated police procedure and spraying me in the face when i pose no threat and that they recommended the harsh penalty of a one day suspension without pay of that officer i mean it's a joke because if i had sprayed her you all wouldn't see me for many years right or even if i had sprayed some other citizen right but because she has a badge then it's a license to assault and then you can get a one day suspension without pay ok it's almost nothing but at least it was something at least that was recognition that there had been wrongdoing but our chief of police intervened to negate that punishment and to say she heard the officer speak and the officer was very remorseful and because of that there shouldn't be a punishment there be an oral reprimand which doesn't even stay in the file so to call this to use this police force as a model for what the rest of the country should have the model is brutality and the model is assassination and that's not good enough for us in seattle or anyone across the country and you know they use the word felon to describe che taylor it's the same way that the same playbook they roll out across the country what they say about mike brown  they wrote in the new york times the next day he was no  angel as if anything he had done before the moment the daring wilson shot him down had anything to do with that police assassination it's despicable but what's beautiful is that the day that there was no indictment of officer darren wilson i went and spoke at a rally on my lunch break just a few blocks up from garfield and at that rally i said that i thought that young people today were experiencing a new political politicization and that they had a new level of outrage and anger that i had never seen before as the advisor for the black student union that garfield the conversations that i was hearing my students have at their weekly meetings was like nothing i'd ever heard before and that we were witnessing grave injustices but at the same time we were witnessing a new uprising of young people who will refuse to go on with this country in the way it functions and then i left the rally to get back to garfield in time to teach and i had to pull the car over because one thousand students came streaming out of the door in protest o walking out of garfield high school shutting down the but the classes in the schools and doubling the size of the rally and i knew it was growing and angry but i didn't fully understand the potential and the radicalization that was going on until until that moment and they were walking out because of mike brown and they were walking out for justice and ferguson but it wasn't just about mike brown and ferguson they you don't have to leave seattle to feel the sting of racial injustice you don't have to leave the school in the seattle public schools we suspend black students at four times the rate of white students for the very same infractions that's not according to me that's according to the department of education's official study  irrefutable we have a school to prison pipeline that extends across this country from classrooms directly to cell blocks that is very noticeable the machinery of it is very obvious to the educators and students it starts with a state legislature that refuses to follow the law who are the lawbreakers in washington state they're easy to find they walk around in suits in the state capit getting wined and dined by lobbyists and they've been held in contempt of court by the state supreme court it's not me who's calling these people lawbreakers it's the state supreme court that has ruled that the legislature is breaking the law by refusing to fund education and yet they walk around free my students went to the capitol last monday to launch the house arrest the so i hope they're not walking around free for long but you know these high stakes tests are part of the school to prison pipeline that deny kids graduation based on a test created by a multibillion dollar corporation that is designed for failure and designed to show the lack of resources that our schools are getting and then punish the people who are put into that under resource institution and then when they don't graduate we know they're more likely not to get a job and we know then that they're more likely to end up in this mass incarceration system and here in seattle you don't have to go in protest against injustices in ferguson when here in seattle we are building a new two hundred million dollar youth jail to lock up the kids that are in my classroom when we could use that money to hire some counselors i garfield high school to help kids who are going through hard times our counselors the ratio of one counselor to over four hundred students i garfield we have one hundred  twenty five homeless students right how is that counselor going to help those kids find the services they need provide the social and emotional wellbeing for those students when they're when they're faced with those kinds of case loads it's impossible and it's designed to be impossible so that those kids fall through the cracks and get funneled into the prison system that's why a thousand students emptied into the street yes mike about mike brown but it was about seattle it was about washington stay in our own abuses right here and this is really sweeping the country an uprising of  students high school students college students all over the country have really erupted in one of the detonators this fall following on this great uprising of the movement for black and the students were brushed off and told not to think about it and to just ignore it and the movement built and grew and then you remember the football team went on strike and oh they were ready for that that was some student power that shut down one of the main money makers right they were students but they were also workers in that they were the main source of revenue for a campus and that was some serious power they got the president fired and pushed out and showed the power that students have on their campuses to change the narrative and stand up and fight against racism and campuses across the country erupted and struggle there was here at the you dub  black lives matter and rallies and protests in western washington there was a student that do you remember they someone got on social media and threatened to lynch black people they had to shut the campus down close classes for the day to figure out where the threat was coming from and so the protests have again erupted around dozens of university campuses across the country with all sorts of demands but i want to read to you what the what the media was writing about the uprising that started this fall in college campuses this one is by a guy stuff and morrow wrote for the washington times about this uprising on college campuses here's what he said remember the campus unrest in the  sixty s whether you agreed with the students or not they were protesting about things of great consequence like civil rights or military draft or the vietnam war they had chance like hell no we won't go those were the good old days now we are witnessing whiny college kids marching in the streets screaming obscenities taking over university presidents offices for what feeling slighted having their feelings hurt talk about rebels without a cause this lazy ignorant fool couldn't have been bothered to google the demands of the students because if you go to the website demand dot com how much more obvious can we make it go to look up the website demand dot com and it has literally dozens of university campuses who have all compiled the list of demands for what the students want out of that college in the fight against racism and the fight for justice and it's an incredible list of demands none of them are we felt slighted by the way but i just want to read one one list that was on  there the students at u c berkeley row we demand twenty thousand dollars per quarter allocated to the black student union an organization necessary for black student development  number two we demand that cultural competency training be given to all faculty and staff number three we demand thirty million dollars and down meant to help support black students financially akin to the initiative that is being implemented elsewhere we demand number four we demand black scholarships geared towards black students number five we demand the pan african studies department projects programs and initiatives be fully funded with an additional million dollars six we demand the creation of a master's program in the pan african studies department  clear goals objectives and people willing to shut down the football team or the campus if they need to achieve an education for all the students on that campus and to me it's a great sign that we are returning to a history of black radicalism that has been so defining and so  necessary to shaping our country and i want to talk about that legacy and draw some lessons from some of the great campus struggles against institutional racism and systemic racism throughout history because education has always been central to the fight for black human rights in this country from  days of slavery where it was illegal to learn how to read and write literacy was literally a crime right it's fascinating to go and say read the the laws in south carolina and the eight hundred fifty s and before that specifically for bid black people from learning how to read and write and the punishment was up to death if they caught you reading and so courageous rebels and revolutionaries organized meetings at night they called it stealing a meeting and they they would grab people and secret networks and go pass on that knowledge and then after the civil war and probably the greatest general strike in u s history of slaves deserving the plantations to help fight in the union army that help win the war the period of reconstruction was where public schools come from right and it was a black radical tradition that fought for public schools to try to give education to folks  where it was illegal before to even be literate and those public schools it should be noted were also of great service to the vast majority of poor white people who didn't have an education either and were being it's amazing to see the pictures of those schools in the south in the eight hundred sixty s because they're integrated you have white and black kids sitting side by side all poor and all haven't been denied an education for a long time and then you wouldn't see that again well even in some places still you know you're not going to see white and black kids sitting next to each other but education again became a mass part of the struggle for black liberation during the civil rights movement i mean the brown versus board of education decision was one of the someone'll moments that launched the civil rights movement and we know you know that the end up was part of litigating that but what never gets taught in school is that brown versus board of education was not just a legal case it was started by a student  a young black woman who she left her school and she called the school from a payphone and she said i need to talk to the principal of the principal gets on and she says there's students having a fight down and down town you got to come quick principal leaves the school to go deal with the fight that was made up and now that the principal's gone she rushes into the school and calls for an assembly where they talk about how the white school down the way is getting all this funding why why are they funded and we're not and she leads a walkout and it was that walkout that led to the  part of the black power movement but the black power movement often gets described as an urban rebellion in the streets which it definitely was but there's an important part of it that is was connected to struggles around education and it was definitely of interest connected to black campuses and students you have the student nonviolent coordinating committee for instance nick which was a backbone you know they cut their teeth in the lunch counter sit ins and freedom rides and voter registration drives in the south but then they as they developed an increasingly took on the ideology of black power you know they were key to organizing students in that movement and then i think there's some really important history that we need to take a look at about the development of the black power struggle that i recently learned by reading a couple of books that i would highly recommend everybody check out there's one called living for the city migration education and the rise of the black panther party in oakland california and then the black revolution on campus highly recommend the folks check these books out and there is an important thesis in in these books about the development of the black struggle that i just want to read a quick excerpt from the book to give you an understanding of the relationship between this this new black uprising sweeping the country and campuses and students  she writes many college activists of the late one nine hundred sixty s were first exposed to black studies as high school students especially in large cities like new york detroit philadelphia chicago and oakland where black nationalist ideas were already in wide circulation and were large scale school boycotts and demonstrations had begun to move beyond the call for integration and now called for community control of schools black history in the curriculum and more black teachers and then she writes for a variety of reason education emerged as the terrain for the national saga of racial transformation the g i bill's expansion of higher education the longstanding emphasis within the black community on higher education on the supreme court victories against professional in primary school segregation reinforced the belief that education was the key to both black progress and the creation of a new nation at the same time the combination of cold war anxieties a rapidly expanding social science literature on race relations and the legal liberalism of the one nine hundred fifty s produced a narrative of the under underprivileged negro americans gradual and steady assimilation into modern white america as one student said of the relentless pressure to conform to white cultural norms quote we didn't feel we had a choice the implication was plain that we were being led into the universities on the condition that we became white men with dark skins and so it was that contradiction that education could be the great liberating force that education could run you know help people rise up out of the conditions of poverty and discrimination but then when they get to the campuses they see that their culture is absent from the curriculum right here at the university of washington when the black student union was formed in one nine hundred sixty eight here by larry in black then later black panther party founder aaron dixon and others there wasn't a single book used in any class on this campus that was written by a black person and it took the occupation of presidents offices and mass unrest on this campus to win a black studies department and to change that i just want to read one more quote from this book that i think shows you how the important role the black students played in the development of this black uprising because again we think of the black power movement and terms of the urban ghetto rebellions that were critical in transforming the narrative in this country and exposing poverty and police brutality but where did those where did many of the activists who were the leaders of the panthers or snick or any of the other black power of innovations where did they get their start and as martha bondi points out in this book before they founded the black panther party bobby seale and huey newton had participated in the burr berkeley based afro american association a study group promoting black history and black consciousness as students at merritt college a two year public college in oakland they helped to win the education of a black history corps they helped to win the  struggles around public education fighting for black studies programs for desegregation whether in high school community college or four year colleges where many people  learned the organizing tools and actually developed their consciousness that they then went to launch into whether it was the black panther party or other organizations and saw that that history i think is  really critical as we move forward and think about how to confront police terror today and many of the other struggles in education the we confront  there's an important point that emerges when you begin to read the history of how the civil rights movement developed into a struggle for human rights and black power and how those struggles then helped to launch a fight against the war in vietnam and then helped launch a fight for women's equality and then helped to launch struggles for all oppressed people in this country and working people fighting back seeing that black people could rise up and rebel inspired every section of us society that have been exploited  oppressed and you know before i gave this talk i called my dad this weekend to talk to him about his experience as a black student at the university of wisconsin in madison and  his stories are incredible he was he thought it was go there in the you know study and maybe go into law and what he really studied was the black power movement and he joined the black student union there and that was one nine hundred sixty eight and then king was assassinated in april of april for of one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and the urban rebellion swept every single city had city block after city block in flames as people said you should adult with him you should have listened to martin luther king  because if you don't want what he was asking for nonviolently then there's this urban rebellion that can be the alternative but that also erupted on all the campuses and so they just shut that campus all together the following some master the entire school was closed and it's the first place anywhere in the country that they they brought in the national guard to put down a black rebellion on campus and they they were brutal they had to make an example out of these black students my dad said he was standing next to a kid on the football team a young man on the football team and they actually my dad  is very big and they went for the football player because they wanted to make an example and standing right next to him they just beat the crap out of them and that only inspired more people to join and it wasn't just the black students the black students were demanding their black studies department and fighting back but all the white students on that campus respected their call to shut the campus down and that's what actually allowed it to happen because they stayed away from class and the entire campus was shut down and the very next semester they won the first black studies department of the university of washington of wisconsin and it again showed them their power which only developed into the mass anti war movement that against the draft because most well most of the black students agreed with muhammad ali who was touring the country saying i don't have any quarrel with the viet cong none of them ever called me the n word and and you know as the draft was indiscriminate in taking everybody who  poor you know many many people of all backgrounds started joining that anti war movement in the ground rebellion and i want to talk about just end on this about how the movement developed political consciousness from a fight back from shutting down the campus or an urban rebellion burning city blocks  from you know outrage and anger and action to developing a plan for how we are going to transform our society so we don't have to keep fighting these battles over and over again and what's remarkable when you study the development of the movement is how similar the conclusions were of so many hundreds of thousands millions of people who came to the belief through their many struggles that we could not actually achieve black liberation or gay liberation or women's liberation or an end to war and us imperialism we couldn't end any of those problems with the current economic and political system that we have in this country we couldn't and any of those problems under capitalism and you know when we go to school we learn that there were two people that had different ideas about the movement you had martin luther king you had malcolm x and they were the only ones that really did anything but don't listen to anything malcolm x said just just look at martin luther king but don't actually look at anything martin luther king said just look at him on one day and then you know you understand the movement but they're always contrasted aren't they martin luther king versus malcolm x which side you stand on but like much of the movement those two great leaders actually came to very similar conclusions about what we need to actually solve the problems that we face in this world today so malcolm x said you can't have capitalism without racism right that we have if we want to achieve black liberation we have to get rid of an economic system and a political system that thrives on racism and needs racism to exist malcolm went farther he said it's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism you can't have capitalism without racism and if you find one and you happen to get that person in a conversation then they have a philosophy that makes you sure they don't have this racism in their outlook they're usually socialists or their political philosophy is socialism so malcolm x went from a black nationalist perspective to developing a revolutionary solidarity he said you would say at the oxford debate which is something everyone should go youtube to and i watch him debate this oxford professor on extremism so on the most beautiful takedown ever see and he ends by saying i don't care what color you are as long as you want to change this miserable system the young generation of red black brown yellow whatever else there is we're living in a time of revolution you know the people in power of misused it and there's got to be a change and so you might expect that kind of radicalism from malcolm that he ended on saying we have to transform capitalism but with king we always get well he was a dreamer but you don't probably understand fully how much of a political vision he had for destroying capitalism and replacing it with socialism that's where he it ended up believing it would take to achieve racial justice or would take to actually stop the war in vietnam and us imperialism so let me see how many people heard this one in school from martin luther king quote capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources with this system a small privileged few are rich beyond conscious and almost all others are doomed to be poor us some level that's the way the system works and since we know that the system will not change the rules we are going to have to change the system you will never see that printed on martin luther king day and the remembrances he said you can't talk about solving the economic problems of the negro without talking about billions of dollars you can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums you're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you're messing with folk then you are messing with the captains of industry now this means that we are trying in difficult water because it's really means that we're saying something is wrong with capitalism there must be a better distribution of about the real legacy of radicalism so that millions of college students around the world were saying if we want to get to the heart of the problem the root of the problem we have to address an economic system that is about destroying the lives of all of us and how do they do that racism is one of the key ways that this system is able to create the reality we have today where you have now in the newest study sixty five people in the united states who have as much wealth as the bottom three point five billion people on the planet how do sixty five people how do they hoard that much wealth how do they get away with having that amount of wealth while there's one hundred twenty five homeless students garfield high school why don't those hundred twenty five students go take that money away from them so that they can live and the thousands of other who don't have health insurance who don't have a job who aren't paid a living wage right why don't we all gather together and take that well so that everybody can survive that some of the main reasons well one we see what the police force will do to you right but we also know that one of the key reasons is racism and we've seen it throughout the presidential election the problem isn't the bankers hoarding the wealth the problem is the immigrants so let's build a wall they tell us  to keep them out so you should fear im an immigrant so that you don't look at the fact that we are ripping you all off and the narrative is you should fear the black thug or the black felon that's who is dangerous in society to keep attention away from the state legislature that is breaking the law and not funding education or right and racism has always played that key wedge in dividing people and try and stopping the solidarity that it would take for us to unite across racial lines to build the kind of solidarity that would take to be able to defeat the richest people who have ever lived who are using their resources to make our lives miserable to degrade us physically as they're doing in detroit by poisoning our water or to poison our minds by denying students access to learning about their own culture and history in the way that they have you know don't have the next studies in black studies courses in the seattle public schools where they deny access to this campus for students of color and so these are the struggles that we're trying to build here on campus and in the city revive the lessons of when many thousands of students joined together to fight back and helped inspire a generation and to begin where they left off instead of us beginning at a moment where we go through all these lessons and then we conclude that we need to change the economic system and the political system let's start there right now and build a movement fully conscious of the task ahead to eradicate this world of racism and get rid of the political system that thrives on it so thank you so there is a question about black nationalism and the politics of the black panther party i believe in that characterization was how do we move away from black nationalism that can be demoralizing i actually see it quite differently i think that the black nationalist movements of the sixty's and seventy's were a catalyst to some of the largest uprisings this country has ever seen and then speired people in all realms they inspired the red guard and chinese americans fighting back then speired aim the american indian movement and native americans  then speired students on campus after campus i think the black nationalist movement and saying we face anti black oppression and we are going to band together with other black people and fight back against that oppression was central to launching a whole era of rebellion and i would say that i think that there's limitations to black nationalis politics especially if you're in a city like seattle where the popular what's the population now of black people what are we a percent right so there's just a simple mathematical problem that we have if our politics are only about organizing black people and that we'd be vastly outnumbered and it would be very difficult to win a lot of struggles and so that that same problem exists on a national level with being simply outnumbered so there's a there's a limitation to i think to where that strategy can go just organizing black people but at the same time i think that those people have the right to organize that black people have the right to organize together and fight back against their form of oppression that often times that can actually inspire others to do the same now i agree that the panthers went beyond black nationalism and i think that was part of why they became one of the most important revolutionary organizations in the history of the united states because they did embrace and internationalism and they embr form of solidarity that the brother here expressed right they you know huey spoke out for gay liberation and and they they joined you know  fred hampton who was assassinated by the chicago police department led the chicago chapter of the black panther party and he was engaged in building what he called the rainbow coalition right that actually had people  from the young patriots there was a white organization that had people from the young lords the puerto rican and wanted to bring together all people struggling against capitalism into a common struggle and i think that's what it's going to take to actually win but if you start on the basis of criticizing black people for organizing together in a black nationalist formation and you miss the way that that actually can inspire others it doesn't do a service to growing the movement you can't start on that basis of criticism you have to understand the importance of that struggle and then you can build from there yeah people raise some great ideas i'm so glad to especially to hear about the plans for campus activism in trying to make their plan for rac equity a real one because we're doing the same thing in the seattle public schools you know there's a caucus of social justice teachers who are working together to demand a change in public education in seattle to make the race inequity teams that are newly being formed actually robust and actually designed undermine institutional racism rather than just be check list saying well we dealt with racism now we can move on to the next issue right i just want to say that the reason why we have race inequity teams that are being formed in thirty different schools across the seattle public school system is because the teachers this fall you might remember were on strike and we went on strike this fall because definitely because we are underpaid we we can't afford to live in the city where we teach we definitely went on strike for benefits and so we could support our families but the issues that we fought the hardest on the issues we actually won around were about trying to improve public education for all students we had to go on strike to demand that students of color get recess in the city because there were over a dozen schools with less than twenty minutes of recess all in schools predominantly serving kids of color and we've saw year after year they are cutting back recess time in elementary schools to implement more and more test prep time to get these kids ready for the next standardized exam all right so we had to go on strike to demand recess we had to go on strike to demand that we have race in equity teams and we asked for one hundred percent of the schools get them the school districts said you can have  six and so it was only through this mass struggle shutting down every single school in the city and forming picket lines and showing the power that labor has to shut the system down that we were able to reopen the schools with this pledge to actually address race and equity to me that struggle this fall showed the potential  of students parents and teachers organizing together in a common struggle for a better vision of our world and you know the school marching band came marching down the picket line in support of the teachers there at garfield high school a group called super teachers formed this woman who had a soup business started bringing soup down to the picket lines and formed a facebook and you know three or four thousand parents later that had signed up on the super teacher's website they delivered sustenance and solidarity to every single school in the seattle public schools and it was that  struggle that helped us win and i'm really proud to say that leading black lives matter activists in this city wrote a statement of solidarity with the strike saying that this struggle your struggle is ours because the spite for race in equity teams is really what it's going to take to educate all the students in our schools and now we're taking it to the next level where we're creating a document that every one of these teams can use to evaluate the ways institutional racism functions in their school and develop a plan of action right so instead of just blaming educators also looking at the underfunding of the schools the length of recess in the schools the lack of counseling services in the schools and using it as an evaluation tool to say yes we want to countability in our schools but we can't get accountability with a standardized test we need accounting we need real accountability which is about delivering resources to the kids who deserve it right and that is an important that the black students in the black lives matter movement were integral to helping achieve but i want to say that we can achieve a school system whether whether it's k twelve or it's higher education that's organized around the principles of equity and solidarity and justice in a society that's so deeply disfigured by racism and  sexism and homophobia and all of the the divisions that people like donald trump of devoted their lives to maintaining right so i know you're a big supporter of trump but i have to say that somebody who has been so openly racist and hostile to our society is sowing deep divisions and it's really despicable what he has stood for and the type of extreme right wing racism that he's whipped up across the country and in order for us to build solidarity and justice on our campuses we have to connect  struggle for solidarity and justice in our broader society because as much as they like to tell us the story that education is the great gateway to the future you all know better than me that when you come to these institutions of higher learning they sink you into deep debt and my line right and then you get out saddled with thousands of dollars of debt and an economy that has low wage jobs at best waiting for you and you see that actually it's a great lie that's been perpetrated that this is the gateway to a wonderful life and we're going to have to understand the way that actually the the school system generation after generation the great contradiction is that it's been promised as this this pathway to the future but actually it's reproduced inequality over and over again by helping to rank and sort children into your place into the economy and we have to build up a better future a better vision of what the schools can be not giant ranking and sorting system for america to sort you in to your level of job but a way to help you develop your full potential to help you identify problems that exist in the world and build the organisation and solidarity that you would need to solve those problems and that's  the struggle though that we're in as socialists to transform our education system but see it in the context of the broader social system that needs to be turned upside down and ri side up and completely remade and a revolutionary struggle for a completely different kind of system and i hope that you'll engage in the study group that jorge mentioned for the new book black liberation from black lives matter to black liberation and i hope that you'll come and hear she's coming in march and april when she comes to speak on this book and follow up and continue to engage in the ideas that it will take to not just build this one campus fight for race inequity teams or this one fight for ethnic studies programs or this one fight  against violence against women but to figure out how to connect all those struggles and i great revolutionary up you bill and martial law inside you in that so thanks everybody