Author, commentator and Georgetown University sociologist shares his candid and complex views of Obama, racial amnesia, the poetry of hip hop, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. He also describes his own life of growing up poor in Detroit in this riveting interview with journalist Dean Nelson, host of the 2010 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 18125]