barack was always very self-confident. he was fun to be around and easygoing and a good conversationalist. it turned out that i really liked to read and i liked to argue politics with my professors, and i really, sort of like a sponge, started soaking up a lot of information and spent the first two years there sort of rediscovering what was important to me, and was active in a lot of campus activism. there were student groups that were trying to get the college to divest from investing in south africa, and there was a rally in front of where the board was meeting the trustees, and barack was the first speaker at that rally. i want to bring attention to occidental s investment in south
LGBTQ alumni of Christian institutions often felt isolated and traumatized during their college years. Many are working to make sure current students have it better.
said i felt horrible, traumatized and violated. i didn t know what happened with any strict legal or conceptual sense. right. there is one woman. her daughter is a teenage was raped when she was a teenager. her daughter, i think, is 28 or 29 now. she said her daughter had a totally different way of dealing with it. she talked about it. she talked to anyone she could make listen about it. she said she learned a lot from her daughter. that was another interesting thing in the article. i felt like these women who, you know, are old other, the youngest that we interviewed is in her 40s. i really felt like they had the culture around rape activism has really changed specially in recent years to campus activism. these women were looking to the lessons from younger women about how to use social media, how to sort of band together. on the point of social media there is a debate about the ways in which social media can be a mob. it can shame people and sometimes for really silly
and get in the sun and act like you have this intense power to stop someone and others have as women but you can t give me one example of a person that you would find acceptable and this is campus activism that i don t understand because there s not anybody that you can say right now and how do i get behind you on this. we talked so much about millennials and at least we can get amani and others credit because they are seen as lazy and she s got it. maybe she can t name someone. maybe she can tomorrow but i appreciate the discussion. it doesn t come down to a name. it was just a question. amani, thank you for joining me. ben ferguson, appreciate your perspective. we ll be right back.
agree and mayor bloom eberg and policies in the commencement speech. and let me ask you a question. if condoleezza rice is someone and bloomberg on two major extremes on the outside politically amani, who would you have? honestly, it does not come down to a name. it s up to the students themselves. give me an example. like i said, part of the problem is transparency. students should have the ability to express their voices and avenues that don t have to come down to protests. look, this is the problem i have with this campus activism that we re watching right now unravel around the country at these campuses. i asked you for an example of someone that would be acceptable. you don t have one. it just wants to go out there