Amanpour and Company

SEE THE REALLY TOUGH EDGE OF RACISM SO PRESENT, AND THERE'S LOVES AND FAMES AND THERE'S MASSIVE OR THE CALLS AND RADIO PODCAST ON THE EXPERIENCE AND BASICALLY TELLING THE WORLD THAT ESSENTIALLY IT WAS BUILT ON THE BOK 6 YOUR PEOPLE. NUN, MUSIC, ART, LITERATURE, HOW DO YOU SEE IT? >> I AM AN ACOLYTE OF ALBERT MURRAY, AND HE BELIEVED, AS DO I, THAT THE UNIQUE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IS SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTES TO THE OVERALL UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, THAT THAT IS OUR SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTION THAT WE GAVE, THAT THERE IS A CONCURRENCY THAT HAPPENS, THAT IN THE FACE -- IN THE FACE OF OPPRESSION, OF CLE-- THERE HAS BE SOMETHING THAT EVEN WITHIN THE RESTRICTION YOU FIND WAYS OF FREEDOM, BEING INDIANA HINTED. THAT'S WHAT JAZZ. IS A FINITE AMOUNT OF NOTES THAT YOU HAVE TO HONOR, AND YOU CAN PUT THEM TOGETHER IN AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF POSSIBILITIES IN THE INDIVIDUAL WHO PLAYS A SOLOANCE, AND HIS SOLO CAN GO OR HER SOLO CAN GO WHEREVER IT WANTS TO GO. AT THE SAME TIME HONOR THE CORDS AND HONOR THE FRAMEWORK. ULTIMATELY THAT CONTRIBUTION IS UNIQUE TO OUR EXPERIENCE, THAT WE, WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK OF COMING IN 1619 TO NOW, 2019, TO UNDERSTAND THAT OVER THOSE FOUR YEARS THAT WE HAVE COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO ADAPT IN THE FACE OF THAT OWE OPERATION AND HOW YOU CAN GIVE SO MUCH TO THE CONVERSATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND WITH THAT IN MIND WE ALSO HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THAT IS AN UGLY PART OF HUMAN NATURE. ONE OF THE MOST DETRIMENTAL THINGS THAT WE COULD SUBSCRIBE TO IS THIS IDEA OF MANY POST-RACIAL, RIGHT? BECAUSE ULTIMATELY IT IS -- THE ORIGINAL SIN OF AMERICA IS IN OUR DNA, AND WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANT IN FIGHTING IT LIKE A:IC DISEASE. IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO GO AWAY