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According the story below, former FBI Director James Comey had a rough beginning when protesters protested him at the opening convocation at Howard University where he is now the school's King Chair in Public Policy.
I'm all for protesting but I am also for making the point, then listening to the speaker because I know I can always learn something new and learning from each other is one of the keys to keeping us moving forward, i.e. that progressive thing many of us say we are about...
I hope you will listen to Comey's speech. It is a bit over an hour long but, I am of the mind that as a longtime public servant who was fired by Trump for not going along to get along he deserves some respect and I am also of the mind that by listening to him and by following his lecture series we have a front row seat to the evolution of a man.
And, I would add, we have a opportunity to help him in that evolution process if we have something constructive to share and we are willing to share it with him in response to his lectures.
"James Comey Blames Donald
Trump For Distracting From Police Violence And Uses Howard Talk To
Announce Book Tour
On Wednesday, Comey told
the group that the United States seems less focused on the
issues of law enforcement and race than it had been in previous years
following the fatal officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown in
Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He partly blamed Trump for that. “I
have noticed that since the election of our current president, [the
issues] have not had the place in American life that I saw in late
2014, throughout ‘15, throughout ‘16,” he said. “I think the
most likely explanation is that issues involving the new
administration, including the emergence of appalling voices of white
nationalism and racism, have crowded out the topic of law enforcement
from American public life.”
He continued, “Although
I think it is vital that we confront racism when it comes at us in
the form of torch marches or racism or hate crimes, it is
critical that we not lose sight of the issue that we began discussing
in earnest two and a half years ago.”
For much of the lecture,
Comey encouraged people to have conversations with those holding
different viewpoints, perhaps an allusion to the activists who nearly
drowned him out in September. “My goal is to try to model,
especially for students, how to have a conversation about really
hard, emotional things,” he said. “It’s only by all of us
adopting that attitude, the attitude that, ‘Hey, you could be right
and I could be wrong,’ that we have the best chance of learning
something in a deep away.” He added, “We are in a dangerous place
in this country right now, where we hate too quickly, where
disagreement becomes anger too quickly.”
Comey went on to speak
about the need for better federal data on police use of force and
for increased diversity in law enforcement. But he also
revisited his controversial comments from 2015 and 2016 about
how the filming of law enforcement by civilians has perhaps made
police afraid to do their jobs, resulting in an increase in violent
crime in many cities.
“I raised the
possibility that some change in human behavior is contributing to the
rise in violence, and oddly enough, by doing that, I managed to anger
police unions and people on the left,” he said about his previous
comments. “I don’t like the term ‘Ferguson Effect,’ and
despite the fact that lots of media have reported that’s my term,
that is not my term, that is not a term I use. But I hope one of the
things we can discuss over the next nine months [of the lecture
series] is whether it’s possible that people change their
behavior—both cops and the community—in response to highly
publicized events.”
… Speaking about his
plans aside from the lecture series, Comey said he expects to publish
his book in the spring. Following its release, he said, he plans to
travel the country and “speak about ethical leadership,” the
subject of the book.”
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