How does the new generation of Black leaders differentiate itself from the old guard?
Cory Booker: You know, it’s complicated and it’s a mixed bag. I mean, there were some black leaders in the country and Jesse Jackson Jr., Harold Ford Jr., I think, who didn’t necessarily have overt clashes with the generation before, because they sort of got passed the torch or didn’t necessarily have to do what Barack did, what Archer Davis did, and unfortunately what I had to go through where, so suddenly you find yourself challenging these lions, these guys that are often 20, 30, 40 years older than you are challenging their seats and then you have generational clash, which, again, isn’t bad thing, and you have see it before in many ways, I talked to so largely, also white leaders in Newark and they say “yeah, we had to come and challenge the old guard.” So, that’s natural, but the question you asked is more pointed about how are we responding to them. I almost do not see it necessarily as a response to them, I more see it as a because of them, you know, because of them I am where I
