All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Were at the point in the semester we have been looking at the long history of africanamericans since the civil war. Weve looked at the long struggle for what historian Hasan Jeffries called freedom rights, right . Weve been looking at this quest for economic, social, and political selfdetermination, for educational access and equity. And were looking at this long quest for the full realization of freedom and citizenship. And so were getting to the point in the semester where were talking about the Civil Rights Movement. Weve been looking at that for a couple of sessions now. And the interesting thing about teaching the Civil Rights Movement is that its perhaps the era that most americans think they know the most about, right . Weve talked a little bit about this, and well talk more about this. Just because folks think that they can quote a few sentences from Martin Luther kings speech in washington or know a little bit about rosa parks civil d
Officials. 2027488001 for republicans, 2027488000 for democrats, for ndependents, 2027488002. Thanks very much for being with us. Inside the opinion page of Washington Post, photograph of senator al franken, one of three public official who is resigned this week along with trent franks of alabama and john conyers of michigan. And also in the Washington Post, nbcs matt lauer, roy moore of the Alabama Senate race, bill oreilly of the Fox News Channel sch and harvey weinstein. Will the federalist website have two different points of view that we want to get your opinions on this. First from denise in mccallister. She wrote a mans character is certainly a factor in the quality of his governors but when the sins are governance, but when the since are personal n nature, host you can read the full essay by the federalist website. And theres this from georgey borman if a politicians personal life doesnt matter for voting, why even voice support for those values at all . Going on to say im not
Work available at washingtonpost. Com and moana who is a senior chairman at the Ethics Center and indicated syndicated columnist. Having worked for jack kemp does the tax bill moving to the senate have mirrored what jack kemp would have wanted. In many ways no. The tax bill has a feeling of desperation about it that was simply necessary to pass something and so they went for arbitrary corporate levels and for me the biggest disappointment in the big the bill, there are many good things but the disappointing part of it was mike lee and marco rubio proposed they just drop the corporate rate from 35 to 20 and with the savings they got there they get added benefits to families raising children and they didnt go for that. I thought that would have been the kind of tax reform that would have really touched the lives of a lot of people who need it desperately. It is, it feels more like just standard republican, you know, cut taxes for businesses and it will create growth about which im not ho
Because youre engaging and organizing which is capacity building, which is building peoples ability to have those conversations. And also to figure out how to act together, how to make each other strong instead of feeling isolated. And, you know, it is certainly true that when that legal structure fell down a lot of people sort of thought, well, thats taken care of. And it was only the beginning of a beginning. Well, two words. I mean, one is when clay said struggle, theres struggle in the macro sense and then theres struggle within movements to find a Common Ground that we can stand on together, right . Right. And thats critically important and it involves dealing with all the complexities that jessica just laid out there. Can i Say Something . Yeah. I think we have to remember the young people who are coming up, like through elementary school. Im not talking about teenagers. And the way they perceive not only children of color, but children who are white as well. Especially since we
Statements but that still kills almost 10,000 people every year on our hoiighways. Now were becoming xhoee ining concerned it highlights the use of marijuana use. Among the more egregious drug involved accidents are a Recreational Boating accident in florida that killed five. A day caravan driver in memphis, tennessee, who was high and crashed causing five deaths. And a railroad next chase, maryland, that killed 16 thats already been referred to. But why dont have a good idea of the number of drug related transportation fatalities. Were not surprised about the growing evidence of drug use by drivers, pilots and others, however, given that as weve heard, many states have authorized medical marijuana programs and two states have decriminalized Recreational Use of the drug. In addition, recent news reports noted pressure to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level as well. Perhaps most disturbing as weve heard mentioned in the Opening Statements is evidence that marijuana use among te