Robert Jensen, journalism professor at University of Texas in Austin, came to Houston to speak on "The Color of the Race Problem is White" Wednesday evening, September 16, 2009. The venue and host was Sedition Books, 901 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX 77006 (SeditionBooks.org ). A short essay can be found at his website (uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html), which has a link to a YouTube version of this lecture with clearer sound.

This is a preliminary version of the entire speech, which was followed by a question/answer/comments period of time nearly equal to this. I apologize for the sound quality; it was a warm evening in a packed house, and the fans were going full blast. One of the microphones fed into an audio recording device for Wally James, host of Progressive Forum on KPFT 90.1 FM radio, and he will air this speech sometime, and has offered to share his audio with me. After I get it spliced into the video, I shall repost this. In the meantime, enjoy!