CW, + / vs. BA (from A to B and back again)

complete video here

highlights of talk by "ovakian" (as west pronounced it a couple times):

min. 38 -- comes out as pro-salad bar

min. 45 --  addresses the question: 'why not kill off all the white people?'

min. 104 -- addresses the question: 'is Ebola just a 'narrative'?'

min. 107 -- addresses the question: 'can ba outrace usain bolt?'

min. 133 -- digression regarding james brown's 'raggedy-ass' politics

min. 149 -- bkgd of bpp executive mandate # 3 (3.1.68)

min. 207 -- ba sings!!

generally funnier and more self-deprecating than expected

west on the other hand was 1st or only to mention (roughly in order) all of the following:

Harry Belafonte

Pamela Frank ("Sister Pam")

W.E.B. DuBois

Nat Turner

Harriet Tubman

Frederick Douglass

Fannie Lou Hamer

Sojourner Truth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Marcus Garvey

Alice Walker

Sly Stone

George Santayana

Michelle Alexander (author of "a kind of secular Bible")

Juanita Young

Iris [Noche?] Diaz

Henry Highland Garnet

Nina Simone

Mahalia Jackson

Aretha Franklin

Luther Vandross

Donny Hathaway

Carmen McRae

Mary Lou Williams

[tho not Billie Holiday??]

Farah Jasmine Griffin

John Coltrane

Ida B. Wells

the Deacons for Defense

Frantz Fanon

Reverend James Cleveland

Thelonious Monk

Edward Snowden

Chelsea Manning

A. J.  Muste

Myles Horton

Rosa Parks

Tory Russell

Ashley Yates

Tef Poe

Alexis Templeton

David Ruffin

Sheila and Wanda Hutchinson

Otis Redding

The Delfonics

The Dramatics

Lakeside

Enchantment

Ohio Players

Funkadelic

the late Big Bank Hank

KRS-One

Wu-Tang Clan

Johanna Fernández

Mark Lewis Taylor

Malcolm X

Elijah Muhammad

bell hooks

The O'Jays

Gamble and Huff

Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

Rev. Stephen H. Phelps

Emma Goldman

Sinclair Lewis

Pastor Chantel R. Wright

Bernard Butler (Urban Diary TV)

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Rev. William Wilson Blair

ok tho incomplete discussion of event  =  here