All these whites have it in for you and that is why you are doing badly. I had done badly in harlem and i overcame it. Reporter what happened there . I graduated. I thought you said you went to howard. I was going to howard in the evening while working fulltime during the day so at harvard i was a fulltime feature first time in 10 years so that was what years did you go to harvard . I graduated in 1968 so you can understand, talking about recently a black man in law school was told professor x never takes black students and he got a b plus but there was great consternation but it is truly criminal what goes on in terms of using and manipulating students to serve all kinds of external things. Host give us an example of what you are talking about. Guest political purposes, the investment campaign. The administration, the whole thing. They are threatened with violence. At stanford the hispanic students have complained the hispanic establishment has threatened them with what is said and do
So this product, Washington Post associate editor and Pulitzer Prize winner traveled across the world to kansas, indonesia, kenya, hawaii, new york and chicago. President obama and kenya discovered the president african ancestral history. He toured houses for Young Barack Obama in indonesia and found homes and sites with his family mother. Began. Discussing his latest book, barack obama. You write and barack obama about the story, no life could have been more the product of randomness than that of barack obama. It is the world coming together accidentally and honolulu, hawaii in 1960. Her father who happens to come from kenya because he read a story in the saturday evening post describes the great place because of the diversity and mother who gets there because she has a father is a wonder and hands up hawaii telling furniture. Here comes barack obama, he emerges as a global existence. Where did their lives begin . s grandmother corrupter, i start the story in topeka which is the state
It to him and he does. Now i hasten to add as i said before, they are not like the others down the mountain. E hes not making any deal with him and those are the people. At youre thinking about those that are not in his blood family. What are their prospects, what is their future . E he sees himself acting as a slave holder to the people within his family and hes treating him in ways that most are not treated. Ca we have a good question that can be answered yes or no. [laughter] you scared everybody. Were you very critical when you were writing this belief and truth . We are critical when its appropriate. Ing beca the reviews are interesting butr there are people that think we hate them and some that are defending. Its hard to know. I think weve try to be balanced about it. Hes not god and hes not the devil. Said the answer is yes and no. [applause] biography of Thomas Francis who led a failed uprising in ireland against british rule before leading a Union Brigade in the american civil
This research . It was because i feel at the time of Ronald Reagan, accomplished so much. I mentioned restoring pride in america, creating a booming economy. And bringing freedom to millions in Eastern Europe and the phoenix communism, which in my opinion is the most important historical event of the second half of the 20th century. We do not have thousands of Nuclear Missiles aimed at us, at least from russia anymore. Life in the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, was involved in fighting communism. But the cold war. Proxy wars here and there, korea, vietnam, many other examples. It wasnt present like that in the 1960s. That communist and at the berlin wall, communism and i will end with this, many people think that the first time ronald called for the berlin war to be torn down, when he yelled, mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Thats not when it happened. It was 1967 during a televised kennedy, itrobert was a question that Ronald Reagan answered and on may 15, 1967 call to tear down the lan
Highest per capita annual income on the continent, most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union made 75 less year that per year 75 less per year. Miners only earn 4. 12 or week. The report reinforced whites position as he made the case to the media for cutting off all funds to south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking, he argued. The world bank loans did not help. It bolstered a racist a caterer undercut moderate forces, saved the political just as walter white predicted, the regimes minister of finance waived the world banks funds in front of critics as proof that not only the strong the government was strong and viable, but that it was respected and supported internationally. As the noose of the regime tightened, the amc launched the defiance campaign. They defied the laws, they defied the regime. They defied. Pretoria countered with brutality. The naacp decided to finance and organized the picketing of the South African delegation at the u. N