Explosion which was the deadliest of the countrys history more than three hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured when a truck bob ripped through the heart of the city. But of course you can follow all of those stories by logging onto our website at aljazeera dot com start aljazeera its the street. Yes swear every. Five me ok and you in the stream today whats it like to go undercover in the world of White Supremacy we have extraordinary stories of people who posed as racists in an attempt to expose them. Hate is on the rise in twenty seventeen for the second year in a row the number of hate groups in the u. S. Rose and since nine hundred ninety nine the total number of hate groups there has more than doubled thats according to the Southern Poverty Law Center but actually racism activists say its not just the u. S. Where theyre seeing evidence of a growing Movement Across the western world so how are they tackling it for somebody else that is infiltration going undercover a
Right now we are pleased to join us professor corey fields was written this book, black elephants in the room, the unexpected politics of africanamerican republicans. Professor, are you a republican. Guest i am not. Im a bit of an outside perspective on the experience o. Black republicans. Host are you a democrat . Guest i guess i wouldt probably classify my politics as independence, leftleaning. In a lot of ways its the extent to which my own politics did not really rise up to the surface in regards to doing the research are getting people to talk to me. I think in some ways beingk outside of the Republican Party and the republicans seen actually made people more willing to open up. There is less risk. The networks of the republicans are fairly small as you might imagine, less republican activists. Everybody knows everyone else. So to be able to come in and beo someone that nobody knew while presenting some challenges, also created opportunities. In the end i feel like it help not be
I think in some ways being outside of the Republican Party and the republican scene actually made people more willing to open up right that there was less risk because the network of black republicans are fairly small. As you might imagine especially black republican advocate so Everybody Knows everyone else and so to be able to come in and be someone that nobody knew right, while presenting some challenge of also created a lot of opportunity. So in the end i feel like it helped you know not being a Republican People but like we can tell this guy whats going on and we with dont have to worry about him, you know, blabbing to someone else. Where did you get the idea . It agree out grew out of on a interest and more broadly. I had done some other research on, you know, classified people doing stuff qonts expect people like them to do. And pursuing abstract of line of thought look what was the case of somebody doing something you qongt wouldnt expect someone like them to do like black peop
Find out by going to Miami Book Fair. Com. Create your own schedule. Find out all the great things you would like to go to. It is also, it is also no exaggeration when i say that this book fair could not be done without the work of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. But at the center of all of it is this remarkable, remarkable educational institution. I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart everybody at Miamidade College for giving us this remarkable gift. [applause] and you know, this has been quite a week, huh . To say the least. And, you know, after this really very emotional week my thoughts, really, like all of us, we went into our little cocoons and listened to music, and i had the good fortune or unfortunate thing of listening to a lot of leonard cohn during that time. But, i, my thoughts began to turn to that time 35 years ago when a group of us were called down by dr. Eduardo padron, the then Vice President of this very campus and it was then a very mu
And satirist trevor noah, who presents one of the most influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what