Bob Woodson’s remarks on July 16, 2019 during the “Identity Politics vs. National Conservatism” panel at the 2019 National Conservatism Conference. Former civil rights activist Bob Woodson challenges the prevailing narrative of the collapse of African-American communities, arguing that African Americans have suffered less from poverty and overt white oppression than from the profound and intentional social dislocation and the weakening of Black churches engineered by Great Society liberal policies.