A country. Its just a little matter of who gets to live here and vote. We are told as if its good news that immigrants take welfare at only 15 above the native rate. Only . Thats like saying good news, only 15 of the food has rat in there. We want no immigrants on welfare paid if we are bringing in people who immediately need assistance from the taxpayers and that by definition immigrants we dont want . Its madness. We cant pay for our own poor people. Whose money is going to pay for the poor of the world . I think we ought to be caring about our fellow americans more. The republicans have always been the party that defends black people particularly those in segregationist policies of the democrats. We have not been getting a lot of love back recently but i dont think thats any reason not to do the right thing here. Africanamericans are hurt the most by lowwage labor pouring into the country because study after study, Jesse Jackson used to be on the border trying to block immigrants fr
And not sure it can be broadly characterized in that way. An example you gave, folks who are telling the truth, exposing lice, bearing witness in the name of the struggles of poor and working people are not a mob it only becomes a mob when the gangsters takeover, just like the reign of terror, the french revolution. That is when the mob spilled over in the name of the people. Just like they were gangsters in the name of the kingdom of the church, synagogue, and judaism, christianity, buddhism or whatever. For thomas paine, for him this was what he called a religious duty. He thought he had found the will of god by doing justly, loving mercy loving mercy and endeavoring to make his fellow creatures happy. That is the language from the rights of man. But it has the center of revolution sent shifted away. The center of revolution, 1776 in 1960. America has been the best in of White Supremacy and the role of capital. A man. We have had resistance and protest but we have not had as south af
Due, for china it is almost one but that is going to james. Change. Not all this is sustainable none of this is sustainable. The radical position is that we can boycott and we do that against her know that was catching dolphions. Reject a lot of practices because women said we are not buying it. I do not want to be responsible for killing dolphins, period. That we go, the more educated we are, women, vote with your dollars. Thank you very much. [applause] up next on cspan, journalists discussing religion and the Supreme Court. A conversation on crime and guns from the Group Connecticut black republicans and conservatives. And later, the Renewable Energy summit with discussions on climate change, water shortages, biodiversity, and largescale farming. On the next washington journal, kevin on yearend strategies to prepare for filing your 2014 taxes and tax provisions taking effect next year. Deeperwill talk with woods of usa today on College Sports and efforts to unionize of usa berkowitz
Minutes. Thank you. [applause] good to have everybody out this afternoon. Weve got a distinguished conversation here with my professor, married terry, university of pennsylvania. [applause] barber ran speed, author of the biography on another of his vonda roseman. And the author of a new biography of rosa parks. [applause] would we know about rosa parks . I wanted to start with november 271955. Rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter avenue got this church to hear. Tm howard talk about the recent acquittal of the two killers of evansville. Dr. King introduced at me again. Howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a child of those two men. After those two not have been a way to, was on a tour through the countries that spread the word and to continue the organizing after the travesty have had a as the two men who had lynched emmett till have been found not guilty. So this is november 27, 1955. Rizal park sits there and he is talk
I can do this the stuffy way or may way. I am going do to it my way. And that might be dropping an fbomb. So if you are sensitive, be aware of that. So thank jow for coming out to my talk. I want to thank the gold fork center and the staff for inviting me out. This is my first time coming to maine. Been to a lot of places, but never maine so that is off my bucket list. I want to compliment the students. None of them pulled out on iphone while in my presence. I spent a year at granel College Prior to receiving my doctorate at the university of chicago and i am sympathize with both the student and the faculty. Let me start with this. Change they cant believe in as where you can see, i have a colleague that coauthored be me. I did 95 of the work. That is my name is first. If you have kany questions, ask me, because he doesnt know. I run a research lab at the university of washington. Matt told me to throw a question about the tea party on an exam. This was in january 2010. I was reading t