Good morning, we meet to receive testimony on the situation in afghanistan, i am pleased to welcome general john ,icholson back to the committee we thank you for your many years of distinguished service and leadership of u. S. And allied forces in afghanistan at a critical time. We would ask you to relate to the brave men and women fighting under your command how appreciative and how proud we are of their service. At war ins been afghanistan for more than a decade and a half. It is always worth remembering that American Forces went to afghanistan because that was where, under the century of the under the taliban regime, now counted planned and trained for the september 11 attacks that killed 3000 innocent civilians on american soil. Our mission was to ensure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al qaeda or other terrorist groups to attack america or our allies and partners, that mission has been successful for 15 years but it is not over. American forces are carrying
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Sabata. Then we continue our tradition of showcasing artistic and cultural performances from the Dance Academy showing us some of the classical dance styles of south india. All that on our show today. While it is important, maybe crucial, that this world be an inclusive place, when we use the terms asianamerican and Pacific Islander, thats the name that many hapas would think of. We have an east bay author. You write about racial characters and they seem relevant to our world today. Thank you for having me. We were talking earlier about hapas and characters like that. I know thats not what you always do. You were the first to showcase them as major characters. Tell me why you do that and whats the importance of that . Right. It wasnt something that was a big event for me. I thought that, you know, there arent a lot of mixed race people in books to begin with. With diversity being such a huge topic, i thought, why not contribute to that. And you want to speak through your own voice . Ye
In my household, we were never brought up to be prejudiced. I have had many black friends, coworkers, very intelligent, very nice people. And i had a bad experience. My husband played in a band with three white men and three black men. The wives and the girlfriends would get up when they played to encourage people to get up and dance because once they see people up there, they go. And i had a black man asked me to dance. I said no thank you. Only because i was married, ok . This man pulled out a knife. I did not see it because he was behind me, but the lead singer, who was black, saw it and jumped off the stage and tackled him. This did not in any way make me prejudiced against black people for doing this. And once he realized that i was not prejudiced, that i was married and i didnt dance with any man, he calmed down. But i could have been seriously injured. Is i think the prejudice pretty much on both sides. Kimberly all right up next we have robert from st. Louis, missouri. Good mor