One thing after remember after Dr King was assassinated there were riots in 60 different cities

so the level of violence in the society was so much greater at that time that you know this seemed like light stuff to people

looting stores having shootouts with police, throwing stuff at firefighters, but there's short memories in terms of what that was like.

The Black Lives Matter movement, which was an enormous movement, was overwhelmingly peaceful, but people try to make it seem like the looting that took place in a few places made it out of bounds.

Folks, there was more looting in one Harlem riot in 1964

than in every Black Lives Matter protest around the world put together and

Harlem was dwarfed by Watts, Detroit, and Newark.

Also, people talk about cringe-worthy statements of the Columbia Prostate,

all Zionists should be dead.

You talk about cringe worthy.

Do you know what the major slogan of the Black Panther Party

was, off the pig?

That means kill a cop. And I still remember a chant that a lot of us said,

one to stop the trial, three, four, end the war. Five, five six off the pig seven eight smash the state nine can do it

again and these were things chanted by white students all over the country.

So people forget how violent the 60s were.

And also what it took to stop the war in Vietnam.

The other thing that people don't realize,

I teach her one of my most popular courses

at Columbia at Fordham,

Columbia would never let me teach there after what I was there is a course

an affirmative action. And whereas the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act was a product of discipline

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