Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b
Of course, i think you make the same decisions that Mitch Mcconnell did, because the next election is always a chance that youre going to end up being in the minority party. Now, the only hope i have, and thats actually driven by my experience with students here, the change is going to have to be generational. The change is going to have to come from people who havent been typically getting involved in the political process and changing things. Its going to have to come from a new set of leaders who havent been used by the other side in certain ways, that havent been abused by the other side in certain ways. So that they dont feel that, you know, sort of sting that theyre going to do it to them, you know, because its been done in the past to their side. So im hopeful because i teach these tremendous students semester in and semester out, and i see the potential for leadership. But the key is getting these young people involved in politics rather than involved in Investment Banking or l
Between blacks and whites there is. Blacks can come in and tell their stories of what happened to them, whites can tell their stories and learn about the history that they were never taught. And when i was live anything Prince Edward reporting the book for one summer, i went to every event there for, you know, over the summer and went to weekly events there for a couple of years. And there are so many students who were affected that, i mean, i really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store and probably find, you know, five in a single outs to walmart outing to walmart. It was very rich with students that had lived that experience and from various perspectives, you know . The thing that i really realized when i started interviewing these students was that there were so many different perspectives. I had never thought of what life might look like for a kid who was 5 when the schools closed, right . So when i met someone, i said, oh, my gosh, ive got to cast a wider net. It was really amaz
[inaudible conversation] [applause] hello, everyone. , a at least for in our. This is the story of two decades of reporting in the middle east garden with cairo where he went after he graduated college with two suitcases and 2,000 a they reject comedienne to become a Foreign Correspondent. We learn about his education , freelancing for radio while reporting for a Major News Network that in one case led to his kidnapping in syria. This book is much more is a Current Situation of the middle east as he said this morning i have never seen it worse this is his personal account a lucid alarming over real and where it is headed before i ask you to help me welcome richard not surprisingly he has the plane to catch at the end of the event so we will cut q a just a little short to move everybody through to get their books signed. [applause] personal and is now split pleasure to be here cannot remember have seen so many people in the bookstore. [laughter] that is encouraging on so many different
This week on q a, a discussion with High School Students attending the 54th annual United State Senate youth progr program. The students talked about their participation in the program and their plans for the future. Cspan give me your name and where you are from. Brooke hanes from indiana. Cspan what are we doing here . Today we will talk about our experiences we had over the week, visiting many places in the nations capitol and listening to our leaders. Your name, sir . I am alex young and also from indiana. What are you been doing this week . We have been talking to quest speakers from different departments in the burr and Supreme Court. But the most important part was interacting with the delegates from washington, d. C. , japan and south korea. Whether it was talking about politics or what we had for breakfast was probably the best part of the weekend. Cspan any disagreements . For sure. But whether it is our favorite fruit, you know . I like pineapple but lots dont. Disenzyme dis