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Going up into space . Youre one of, like, 500 people who have done it. Its just an amazing experience. I think few people realize that it only takes eight and a half minutes to get up into space. Hinojosa so, like, well be done with this television show, and you would have already made it. Halfway across the world. Hinojosa wow. Exactly. Hinojosa what does it feel like . I mean, actually, you tweeted about it. You were tweeting bilingually at the time. Absolutely. Hinojosa and you kind of clued us in that it was nervewracking. I mean, at first, you know, youre sitting there, and youre ready fo...

I just got an f from you. This is overheard. Senator hayden, welcome. Thanks for having me here, evan. [evan] very nice to be here. Nice to see all of you again. Well, good to have you here, sir. So, were half a century from vietnam. Were more than 50 years from the port huron statement, the famous document that you authored or were principal author of. Im tempted to ask you if were better off today than we were back then. Thats a good question, ive chosen to believe in the permanence to the process, to the conflict process, the process of war, theres something permanent about it, some people ...

This is overheard. cheers and applause dr. Gates, welcome. Thank you. So nice to see you sir. Its an honour to be back in austin. Oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. I love it. Yeah . What do you like about it . What i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. The experience of black america since Martin Luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. It...

You were. You were growing up as an american girl, and i think one of the things that people are fascinated by about you is the fact that you actually. You could make this decision to say, i was lisa. I am, or was lisa halaby, an american girl, but i could also be this, i could also be royalty of someplace else. This ability to basically say, i could be someone else, change your identity, is really quite extraordinary. Well, first of all, it was my husband who changed the identity in the way you described it, with a title, et cetera. I grew up as a young girl in this country of arab heritage, ...

Hinojosa do you think that there might be a time, lets say 100 years from now or 200 years from now, when other historians are looking back at this moment in history and saying, oh, god, those silly americans of back then. And these would be other americans. Yes. Hinojosa . Saying, well, god, they divided people up into race yeah. Hinojosa do you think that thats possible . Yes. If theyre historians, they wont cast judgment, however. Theyll just say, in the past, americans divided people up by race. They also divided people up by religion, so it used to be a really big deal if you were jewish ...