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We, and our. what country music showed me is there's only us and no them, of which our dialectic, our binary media and computer world would like to convince us. at the heart of us and the u.s. is this startling contradiction that we proclaim to the world that all men are created equal, but the guy who wrote that sentence owned more than 200 human beings. most of my work charts the indignities that flow from that, and country music is not immune to those indignities. but one of the amazing things is that the banjo comes from africa, and the fiddle comes from the british isles and europe, and th...

Through all 16 hours of this new ken burns documentary, it might be that country music is so uniquely american, its origins and history are complicated and at one point, we look up at the screen and we see just two words, hard times. so, with that as the fusing, tell us how you take on the intersection of race. >> you know, i've had the great privilege to spend my entire professional life talking about the u.s., capital u, capital s. but also talking about us, the two letter, lowercase pronoun, and we and our. what country music showed me is that there's only us and no them. of which our binar...

But i'm also talking about us, the two-letter pronounce, and we and our. what country music showed me is that there's only us and no them, which our die electric tick, our binary media and computer world would like to convince us. at the heart of us and the u.s. is this startling contradiction that we proclaim to the world that all men are created equal. but the guy who wrote that sentence owned more than 200 human beings. most of my work charts the indignities that flow from that, and country music is not immune to those indignities. but one of the amazing things is that the banjo comes from ...

It's given me a chance for people to get the know the real me. >> the conciseness enforced by that 140 character limit was attractive, you didn't have to read and scroll. >> in the past year the number of twitter users that has grown, with 2.5 million on the site now. i'm one of them. >> twitter became, for many of us, a dominant platform for communication day in and day out. that's part of the magic of working on the internet. you just really never know how this stuff's going to play out. >> big news in the computer world, steve jobs who turned apple from a boutique computer company into a te...

Character was -- >> it grew 343% with nearly 2 1/2 million people on the site now. and i'm one of them. >> twitter became for many of us a dominant platform for communication day in and day out. that's part of the magic of working on the internet. you just really never know how this stf stuff is going to play out. >> big news in the computer world. steve jobs who turned apple from a boutique computer company into a technology behemoth, announced today he's taking a leave of absence until june. jobs says his decision is due to health issues which he says are more complex than he originally thou...