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Liberals Freak As Condi Destroys Kanye’s Critics ‘Don’t Tell Me How To Be Black
I mean west outspoken tweets unsupportive President Trump
conservative activist Candace Owens are also criticizing President Obama for
failing to apologize to West for previous issues that's caused some of
the a-list celebrities out there to condemn Kanye West you've spoken about
your upbringing a lot you wrote a book about in the last book I believe we
spoke about I know how proud you are of your parents and as a successful woman
of color out there when you see Kanye West talking like this and getting the
pushback this what do you think well my view first of all I haven't spent a lot
of cann I'm thinking about it but I'm gonna say that people should be able to
express their views not all of us have to think politically the same way I've
said to people sometimes you know I've been black all my life you don't have to
tell me how to be black and so I think we need to recognize that in some ways
the height of prejudice is to look at somebody and think you know what they
think because of the color of their skin yeah and so I hope we get to the point
that people get to express their views and you can agree with them or disagree
with them but it's that after all is what it really means to be American is
to have the ability to say what you think it is pretty incredible though I
mean you you look at some of these universities who push back on
conservative speakers and push back on conservative thinking you're supposed to
be diversity in you know diversity and university I mean the shaming of it it's
but you know I teach at Stanford yes and I have students who come from a wide
variety of political sure yes and they do just fine in my class I think they
actually flocked to my classes even if they have very very very left views or
very progressive views and I always say to them look it's not my job to tell you
what to think it's my job to teach you how to hone your arguments how to be
disciplined than what you argue not to be sloppy in your thinking but at the
end of the day you get to think what you think I just hope you'll be able to do
it in a more rigorous way in a way that actually the data supports what you're
arguing it so I love teaching for that very reason and and and people look up
to you and try to emulate you for that reason as well so thank you for your
leadership and I mean that thank you sincerely your
book is political risk how businesses and organizations can anticipate global
insecurity and boy do we have a lot of global insecurities today tell me about
the book why you wrote this and how do you can't navigate around all of these
headlines that seem to disrupt markets and disrupt out the night
well my co-author Amy zegart and I were teaching a course on political risk in
the Graduate School of Business at Stanford and we couldn't really find
materials that spoke to the political side of political risk in some ways
political risk used to be back in the 70s or late 60s well is that socialist
dictator going to expropriate my land or my my business nationalize my business
such a good analogy right that's really today not the problem the problem today
is that political risks coming from multiple sources it's coming from big
geo strategic changes who would have thought that great powers behaving badly
like Russia using social media platforms to interfere in the American election
would be a big political risk now a big risk for those social media companies so
that wouldn't have even been dreamed of a year ago who would have thought that
somebody with a an iPhone with a camera gets to photograph not great behavior by
an employee at United Airlines and now United Airlines has a problem so that's
another source civil society human rights groups are organized across
borders and so if your company is doing something in a factory in Bangladesh
it's going to get attention and so we just wanted to say to organizations and
particularly to businesses political risk is all around you you need to be
able to look around corners and see what's coming don't make political risk
the business of the risk people because by the way nobody ever gets rewarded for
stopping something that didn't happen and so you really need to organize in
the c-suite in among the the very leadership of the company right at the
board level to think about political risk it's going to happen to you cyber
terrorism something going to happen be prepared for it and
have it constantly right as you write the the risks can come from anywhere
including a hacker Connie it's great to see this one great to see you Thank You
Condoleezza Rice thank you god bless you and God bless america