I was being held down by two individuals. And someone was pulling my pants down, and i was raped, sodomized. And that brave man in the video is here with us in the studio today with his partner and his wife, Michael Matthews and Geri Lynn Matthews. It is so good to see you in person. Thank you so much for being here. Nice to see you, cheryl. All the way from albuquerque, new mexico . Yes. We met each other first by satellite about three years ago as i recall. Yes, yes. Right when you were beginning your documentary, justice denied. So, michael, i want to start with you. Why did you decide to go public . This is a tough subject. Its hard enough for women. I cant even imagine what its like for a man. I had gone [sighs] i when i was raped, it was in 1974, and i never just saying that, just saying that out loud so matteroffactly, youre kind of, like, processing it still . Well, i never told anybody for 20 years. Oh. So, i went through a lot of therapy to get to that point, and i tried to c
Landscapes. I wanted to write a little pamphlety kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think im in the majority of public opinion. I dont think im a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. I think im in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. So what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame thats been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what were fighting for. I wanted to say that, you know, lets just take one example, health care. So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want with Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. And the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and
So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in and the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and those who like the status quo. I reject that. Be i hate the status quo in public education. But my answer is not to go in the direction of Corporate School reform. So thats why the book was written, and its a short book, its a punchy book, so its kind of a manifesto. You can kind of tack it up on the door of the executioner. Host well, thats kind of where i wanted to go which is whats the Historical Context of the word manifesto. Guest yeah. Well, for me, its something that you put a nail in the door of the king whos been running roughshod over the people, and
Provoking this incredibly Important Supreme Court decision which led the country on a road to civil war, which, of course, eventually freed all the slaves. Dred, unfortunately did not live very long after the decision was rendered. He died probably of tuberculosis in 1858 only a year after the case was decided. His wife lived on until 1876. She saw the civil war and saw freedom come along. For a good share of their lives the scotts lived here in st. Louis. They died here. They are buried here. So in many respects, you know, we can say that the scott family were st. Louisians and their case started here and in many ways ended here, not with the Supreme Court decision in washington but with being set free. 100 years ago today president Woodrow Wilson signed leverage allocation creating the National Park service. Join American History tv tonight at 7 00 p. M. Eastern time when were live from arlington house. The robert e. Lee memorial. It is the park easter vises most visited historic hom
I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for all. I want to break the duality we get trapped in an the framing of issues, schools are something i am passionate about. The framing of the debate is those who want to privatize, crush the unions, measure education by a single metric at those who like the status quo. I reject that. I hate the status quo in Public Education but my answer is not to go in the direction of Corporate School reform. It is a short book, a punchy book, kind of a manifesto. You take it up on the door of the executioner.