Where for many years she raised thouroghbred horses and where she and her husband remain active in civic causes. You heard something of luci baines johnson, of her sensitivity and her sense of history. Unlike peggy, luci was a young woman when she entered the white house in november, 1963. She wanted nothing more than to be a normal teenager. Life in the white house is many things but normal it is not. Lucis mother said as much when she gave her daughter the following advice, dont ever do anything you do not want printed on the front page of the paper. This would strike terror in the hearts of most teenage girls but luci rose to the occasion, no more impressively than at the time of her wedding. According to one newswoman nobody was invited except the immediate country. And notwithstanding, a press controversy over a nonunion bridal gown, the day went off gloriously. Soon after, luci left the white house for texas in what she has described as a normalcy that never quite materialized fo
This class is about one hour. Professor thompson remember, we set the last couple of days focusing on how they were using the bible to make arguments on slavery. We talked about these texts already. Im pointing you to them again to highlight why they matter, but also become on last one as a way of talking about what will happen within the africanamerican experience, particularly as they read scripture for themselves. The genesis nine account is what it is generally referred to it is actually the curse placed on cain. We talked about the completed stories and the curse of ham. We did not talk about because the reader does not pull it together something known as the great dispersion, the power of babel text. It is often used to talk about why you have different races of people. Im adding that in. The generous 11 account and the tower of battle is a way that you can understand difference the different races that exist. Ephesians text, which is a whole household code, both for husband and
Now the people having fun of peoples war were ushered in democracy. Well, no. Im afraid not. It didnt lead directly to nazi germany, no. But the vindictive piece 1919 created a weimar republic. So weak. Suffering so many economic troubles. Things especially after the onset of the Great Depression with the germans needing us bank loans to fund the reparations payments and after the Chain Reaction from wall street spread to our Banking Sector and a lot of loans got yanked, skyrocketing unemployment in germany in 1930 in 1933 the rise of hitler was relentless. It led to modern totalitarianism and this hideous 2nd world war monstrous is the 1st one was from a dwarfed by the monstrous the so the 2nd one. The 1st one faded in american memory for good reason. It was a horrendous catastrophe. Rather take them because that this, world war i, the beginning of Information Warfare certainly the beginning of government manipulation the systematic government manipulation of journalists in the countr
He is a Senior Editor at the atlantic. He is a social and cultural historian of the United States. Before joining the atlantic, he was a lecturer of history at the harvard university. He previously taught at brandeis university. Yoni will moderate this discussion with dr. Daryl scott attended Marquette University and milwaukeewisconsin and Stanford University in palo alto, california where he received his doctorate in history. He began his teaching career at Columbia University in new york city and left therein 2000 to serve as the director of africanamerican studies at the university of florida gainesville. Since 2003, scott has been the professor of africanAmerican History at howard university. He has served on a board since 2003. It was founded by Carter G Woodson in 1915 and is the a list black scholarly and intellectual society in the world. So if you would please help me welcome our guest this evening daryl scott and yoni appelbaum. [applause] mr. Appelbaum wow, its great to have
But he offers hope to people below the poverty line. He sees what needs to be done getting rid of Citizens United for one. Money has to be taken out of politics. He is running on Campaign Money he gets from people like me. I wish i had more to give. I think he can straighten out our country. Thank you. Host do you think he can win . Could he defeat Hillary Clinton . Guest if enough of the people that have been living in poverty cant get jobs get out and vote and contribute something to him yes, i think he can win. He is a politician it, but he sees what needs to be done for this country. Guest there is an interesting tagline at the bottom of his website. He wants to tell people give me money and i will talk about your issues. I will talk about income inequality. They are courting the wealthiest class to run for president. His challenge, are there enough of them . Its not the base of the Democratic Party. That is what he brings to the debate. The role of money in politics is growing cyc