The problem to, to your how do i, they dont let me understand the elevators vote sometimes. Its not a joke. And ive been told im too old. While theyre younger, old, ive always been known. Ive always known what endures. Ive known are northstar, the very idea of americas overall crated ek, deserves to be treated equally throughout our lives. Weve never fully lived up to that idea, but weve never walked away from that a, the, the, the, you know, we are, its how do i do the division of the oldest of ideas. But you can lead america with ancient ideas. Only take us back later, not because the land, the possibilities. You need a vision for the future and what can and should be done. So now youve heard mine. I see a future were defending democracy. You dont diminishing, i see a future or restore the right to choose a protect are afraid of not put them away. He wont be able to pay their fair share or taxes. I see if you to fully say the plan from the crime of crisis in our country from gun viol
Klans been, to do this run for the u. S. Senate, so i went down to louisiana and i was at a rally with him. Oddly enough, he had to get to another town across the state and his driver had not shown up, so i said mr. Duke, im free. Lets me drive you and he sort of looked at me like, you know, he was unsure, but he had to get to this place where he had to go and so there we were, me and david duke writing across the state of louisiana and it made for a great story. Goodness gracious, the somalia story i sort of kiss you could get these stories online, boston globe archives. The somalia story i was a correspondence amalia. I was covering the civil war with a photographer and not that i wanted, of course, to be taken hostage. I did everything i could to make sure i was going into a place where no one was looking for me. Heck, i wanted to get in there, write the story and get out and so one of the aid workers in kenya had said fly to bard era. Thats a village that was already attacked about
Host we are back live with h wil haygood. We will put up the numbers. 2028488200 in the east and central time zones. 7488201 for the mount and pacific time zone. We will put up our email, facebook and twitter as well. Those are other ways you can contact us if the phone lines are busy. We have mentioned it in black and white. I will read a couple quotes from your book about sammy davis, jr. He loved white women and the site of one on his black sheets. His american dream. You go on to write nixon needed sammys aura. Guest sammy davis, jr. Was one of the more memorizing figures in the history of american entertainment. His mother left him behind, he was abandoned as a child and that haunted him forever. He went on the road with will and his father sammy davis, sr. He was a precious child. He was a prodigy. There is always a price to pay when you live in that world. Sammy was not seen as a handsome figure when he became a teenager in 15 to 17 and 18 he was up in canada when he was 19 and
Exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the case of the white house butler, extra ordinary service to the country. These figures, when i look back at the figures, society, culture, race and style. Gues guest there is legislation that congress powell, and sammy davis junior integrated nightclubs in the 1940s across the country. Armstrong and linda horn and sammy davis, junior, and Sugar Ray Robinson who fought the mob in new york who controlled the fight game. He wanted to give fighters some independence, himself especially. And of course, many epic cases that he fought before the United States victory, with the 1954 School Segregation case with brown versus board of education. When you look at all of these men, you
The Supreme Court nomination that changed america. He will be taking questions were the next three hours. Host author wil haygood, you write about black men who heroically manifested themselves into mainstream america. I think my writing is a relentless pursuit to explain all of america. What does that mean . Guest i think it has been exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the wheno i look back over the people who ive written about, they spin these amazing tales about society, culture, style, race, and i dont always know if they knew when they were doing it, but heroism as well. You had the new york congressman who passed legislation, antipoverty legislation in the case of the new york congressman powell, Adam Clay