wow. i told him the situation. he said, i m going to send someone right now to get your grandmother, and i mean, we just cannot express our gratitude to him. he s just a local hero for the whole city of houston. did you know mack before this personally? no. no. we did not. not personally. we know of him. we purchased items from his store before, but we knew of him incredible. yeah. incredible. ruby, i understand you actually celebrated your 84th birthday this week. i can t imagine. what a birthday. it was on the 28th of august, and i was back in my little mattre mattress, my little bed, and mack and other gentlemen came back to check on whatever was going on, and i was talking to him, and one thing just led to another, and i told him, i said, i guess you know i spent my 84th
ones that become president. he would take this opportunity to make the argument that we defeated jim crow but that the circle of opportunity is not yet wide enough. i think that he would say probably that dr. king in this position at this hour in the life of the country would be pressing for economic equality and equality of opportunity which was, in fact, what dr. king was doing in 1968 when he was murdered. he was leading the poor people s campaign in washington. i think this is one of the most fascinating chapters about how politics really works is the civil rights movement offers us an amazing case study because we had the march on washington 28th of august in 1963. and then the terrorist attack on the 16th street baptist church in birmingham in september. and then the murder of president
the hhs that s going to be bringing on these people who are not going to have the background checks, but they re going to have access to your medical records and your social security numbers and all these things. do we just let it slide? i think when we get our colleagues back on the house side and the senate side, one of the things we need to look at is they need to take this off the shelf and look at what the affordable care act is about. apparently they re not doing that. there are a number of state attorneys general who have written hhs, they have pointed out that they want a response from sebelius by the 28th of august. but they write, personnel in many of the new programs is significant access to consumers personal information, yet hh s s relevance and guidance lacks clarity providing governance protection. and the rules over these
is my vision. one america. put the bs behind. you can t solve centuries of blah blah but you can be ladies and gentlemen and be people of goodwil. that is what i would like to see, a true restoration of everyone s honor on both sides of this divide. as reverend sharpton will tell you, one of martin luther king s confidantes with rabbi heschel. i hope on the 28th of august we will in fact be discovering the dignity of each other. geraldo: thank you, reverend sharpton and secretary black. thank you very much. the soul savior of the big summer concert business and friday night lady gaga jammed grant park with the biggest crowd since president obama s acceptance speech. acceptance speech. we hav
is my vision. one america. put the bs behind. you can t solve centuries of blah blah but you can be ladies and gentlemen and be people of goodwil. that is what i would like to see, a true restoration of everyone s honor on both sides of this divide. as reverend sharpton will tell you, one of martin luther king s confidantes with rabbi heschel. i hope on the 28th of august we will in fact be discovering the dignity of each other. geraldo: thank you, reverend sharpton and secretary black. thank you very much. the soul savior of the big summer concert business and friday night lady gaga jammed grant park with the biggest crowd since president obama s acceptance speech. acceptance speech. we hav