For any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to provide the Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to acknowledge first off the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which has made this program possible, and also the work of amanda mooneys, the assistant director, and Frankie Lyons for organizing todays event. The history of mass incarceration, the us you of ofs incarceration issue mass incarceration has reached a Critical Mass of attention in the last six months or so. There have been initiatives that have been launched obviously by the senate just this week. And in various other venues as well. All of them calling for reform of the system of incarceration, and what is interesting is that this has been a Bipartisan Initiative involving democrats and republicans. It is a response to what is clearly a serious problem. I just want to offer a few brief statistics to highlight this. The United States
With the general an think taking place . I know whether its emerge or care, i helped start a Youth Leadership symposium in houston where im from and its still very, very difficult for us to get people engaged to sign up for these programs. So you can talk about putting these programs in the mosque or starting a sunday school class about it or putting ads in your local paper, but theres still a very, very large divide in having people in the Community Involved in this. What are suggestions practically speaking on apathy . Okay, ill go first. And thank you for sort of thank you for the question. Something that id eventually speak about when i was up there. One of the ideas we have tried to quote unyoet get the Community Involved and engaged is to get them to run for Political Office at the lowest level. There are thousand chairs in the city of houston. And about 10 of them are from our community. Our population is less than 1 or 2 approximately. Many times, its not that difficult to get
Overwhelming odds they will all be lobbyists. Joanne joins us from washington state. Go ahead. Caller i have for ted cruz all away. Ever since he did the filibuster, i realize he of all the candidates is listening to the people. And he is so smart. I think he would be fabulous. My choice for vice would be and one ofn carson, those for secretary of state. Host thanks for calling. Andrea joins us from pennsylvania, also a republican color. Who should your party nominate next year . Caller i believe Carly Fiorina should be the republican nominee. Host why . Caller i believe she has the experience especially in regards to Foreign Policy that we need to make our country a leader again among the world. We are safesure again, especially in light of what has happened in the last 24 hours. Host thanks for calling. Another republican caller joining us, roy, from arkansas. Caller yes, i would take anybody on there except trump. Why peopleerstand want a man who has nothing to do but brag on himsel
The japanese born parents. They are not prisoners or internees. They are merely dislocated people. The unwanted casualties of war. The time, spring and summer of 1942. The place, 10 different Relocation Centers and unsettled parts of california, arizona, utah, idaho, wyoming, colorado, arkansas. I was born in a small town south of sacramento. Farm. Had a we raised grapes and strawberries. When there until age five world war ii started. Sunday, my dad, who had been home listening to the radio , heard about the bombing. He burst into the Methodist Church where my mother was playing the pnm and the piano and interrupted the service, announcing japan had bombed pearl harbor and all of the sudden in that one instant, our lives changed. We didnt know what was going to happen to us. At first, there was not that much antiasians sentiment in the newspapers. Things were quiet. Le, the whi newspapers started publishing articles about the perils of having the japanese on the west coast. Who hadthe
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