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Treating them as second class citizens, bat giving them equal access because you deeply opposed that policy. why wouldnt you complain to congress and not to the dutiful men and women who put their lives on the line for america every day? >> senator session, youre of course right that the solomon amendment is law, passed by congress >> how much i honored everybody who was associated with the military, on the harvard law school campus. all that i was trying to do, was to ensure that harvard law sc...

Employers that could not sign the antidiscrimination pledge. and the accommodation that bob worked out was that the veterans organization would instead sponsor the military recruiters. so the only thing that was at issue was essentially the sponsoring organization, whether it was the office of career services or instead, the student veterans organization. >> please let me follow up on that. but in august 26th of 2002, dean clark, your immediate predecessor, acquiesced when harvards financing had...

Equal access. isnt that right? >> senator sessions, we had gone back and done exactly what the department of defense had asked us to do prior to the time that the supreme court ruled. we had done it -- >> wait a minute. you asked them what they asked you to do after the third circuit ruled, you denied them access, they had to insist and demand that they have equal access, because the law was still in effect. you did not agree to that. you had reversed that policy and the president of the univers...

Honor for the military and always tried to make sure that the military had excellent access to our students. and, in the short period of time, senator sessions, that the military had that access, through the veterans organizations, military recruiting actually went up. but, i also felt a need to protect our... defend our schools very longstanding anti-discrimination policy and to protect the men and women, the students who were meant to be protected by that policy, the gay and lesbian students w...

That when we talk about brown versus board of education, does the nation understand that the precedent in brown was established by rest minister versus -- mendez versus westminster which is a group of mek-american parents who felt if though they were being denied equal access. is that taught? >> lets go back to margaret. so far nothing that dr. romero is talking about sounds problematic. are you okay with that so far? >> first of all, why cant this all be taught in american history classes with ...

Depressed enough that theyre going to -- so you just have -- you want to talk about violation of rights. waun you want to line up and say youre too depressed to have a car or gun or job? that doesnt make sense. >> what is imprak tick sal what you were saying. >> you were talking over me. now im talking. those of us are talking about solutions and not just talking points. you need to understand what kind of danger people are at. [ all talking at once ] >> i think youre both getting off the issue....

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We can get beyond this, yall. we can actually work together and make a good place for all of us to be able to live. >> she believed her father was murdered by the clan and the cross was burned on their lawn. you know better than i what was going on in the 60s all over the south. why would you accept a job to handle discrimination issues and equal access issues at a department notorious for lack of equal access? >> that is a decision she has to make with her family. if she were to take a job, it ...