Host jason riley author, columnist, contributor to the wall street journal and manhattan institute. Among your books please stop helping us. I want to begin where your book concludes because they see the following liberalism convinces blacks to see themselves first and foremosts as victims. Guest i believe that is a big part of a political strate strategy. Theyve been at it for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting and as victims and then the followup is we have a Government Program or solution to help you overcome your victim so i think it is a political strategy. Guest thereve been books on Lyndon Johnson. Is it a failure or a success . Guest if you look at the programs and the goal the object is overstated at the time you would have to say that its largely a failure to to the extent we are told another debate i think that we of course move beyond a separate but equal but in your book you talkta abot the black colleges and pasted it could case of ronald
Is the author of let them in, the case for the open border. Please stop helping us. And false black power . A critique of the national jason riley, author, columnist. Fox news contributor. And among your books, please stop helping us. I want to begin. You say liberalism has convinced black to see themselves first and foremost as victims. I believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually. And theyve been at it for some time. Theyve had a lot of success. Victims, primarily. Then the followup that has a Government Programs to help you overcome your victim had. There are a number of essays and books written by is a a failure or success . If you look at the track record of the program, look at the goals that the objectives for stated at the time. You have to say its largely a failure. Particularly with regard to the people that were targeted by many of these programs. Their lives have not significantly improved even though they were being told it would improve at the time. In yo
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We need to look to the academy, the textbooks our children read, the source of the problem. The media is just a mirror of us. Not just us, its a mirror of power. We dont have any. Thats a wonderful place. Thank you for your wonderful questions [applause]. If you are is moved by this conversation as i was, i hope youll join us out front and buy them books and get them signed. [applause]. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] next up on the tenth annual brooke book festival. A panel of Voting Rights. Good afternoon, my name is george i am the editor of nation big thing. Before we get started i want to let you know that books by authors in this program can be purchased from barnes noble outside the building. Immediately following this Program Authors will be signing books at the signing table one. We are here today to talk about Voting Rights, we have an excellent panel with us, to my left, joanne reed is an msnbc National Correspondence appearing on prime time programs. Lawre
I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig