Which is some of the things ive been talking about this week on the news and how the parallels are with iraq and whats going on there. It amazes me that people dont see some of the patterns that keep repeating themselves. But thats what the book is about. Its not just straight history. Its again read like this one is periodically from the cockpit from the f. 100 from the f1 05 and a f4 at the very end. So its going to be a good book, i hope. What else . Do you have a call sign . I will tell you but im not going to explain it. They call me to dogs. Dont ask. My mom is here. [laughter] read viper pilot. Actually its the Readers Digest of how i got the call sign. I flew with guys for years and maybe knew their first name and very rarely knew their last name because we always went by nicknames and call signs. Its just a pilot thing. Do you have one . Do you want one . Yeah. You have to earn it the hard way by usually doing something stupid. [laughter] what else . [inaudible] at the end, ye
He found that the impact of slavery on American Society continues. The Houston Chronicle columnist found while he is other descendent of a form are slave owner, ldamian toll lynnson is ancestor of form are slaves. So, chris, what made you want to write that book . Well, i grew up knowing about Tomlinson Hill. Id never been to Tomlinson Hill. But my grandfather would always say, you know, we had a slave plantation down on the river called Tomlinson Hill, and when the slaves were freed, they loved it so much they took tomlinson as their last name. And as a seven, eightyearold kid in dallas, going through desegregation, because in 1973, dallas schools were still segregated and there was a courtordered forced busing, and so race was very much an important topic at that time in dallas, and i was aware of that as a child, and the idea that there were black tomlinsons that my family once held as slaves, just boggled my imagination. And that became a important part of my identity growing up, a
Any account. Oprah said to me afterwards money wonk lead to our health. She said that we are left with is contaminated houses, contaminated bodies, contaminated soil with no cure. And so those were the compelling reasons that led me to want to tell this account. Health studies have since shown that anniston residents, you know we all carry a little bit of pcb in our bodies around the globe. Its really a global problem that we are dealing with, global ecological problem. I was in massachusetts at a meeting. Rick harper has been closed since 1983 because of pcb contamination and they are doing remediation but it wont reopen for the foreseeable future. Its a richer source of livelihood for people in that area. This whole meeting focused on pcbs and schools. Researchers are now finding places from new york city to the california coast pcbs were not only is an electrical insulating equipment, that was their manias but they are also found in building called and so high levels of pcbs were fo
Deeply driven town to unify, but the furor around the finances kept things in motion. There were other features of the settlement which were innovative. One was funding to support a health clinic, educational foundation, because pcbs are associated with neurotoxic deficits in children, where funding was to go to scholarships and education. There were some Health Studies that were funded at the same time. Not exactly through the same sae so the researchers are back doing a longitudinal study of the folks there. So, there have been some important things that came out of the settlement, but i think one of the things youre talking about, the need for criminal justice reform. We really need reform in how we manage toxic chemicals in this country. The law that governs it, actually banned pcbs in 1976 because they were found to be so toxic. Actually the ban was never really complete. The epa says that it left more than 750 Million Pounds of pcbs in youth, and the law that the Toxic Substance