The washington journal continues. Host paul butler. Law professor, former prosecutor, as somebody who has been arrested, what is your take on ferguson . Guest im tired of this happening over and over again. It is not just ferguson. It is staten island. It is that 51yearold grandmother who was beaten by the cops. Hit her 10 times. All of these unarmed africanamericans being brutalized by police. I think it is important to have a conversation about race and to put it in a larger context, in which african lives just dont seem to be valued. Host that is larger context . Guest it is not just criminal justice. It is civil justice. It is not just africanamericans. It is people of color. It is important to talk about race. White americans who are disenfranchised. The Lgbt Community has issues with the Justice System. But it is important to realize that africanamericans it is the classic american dilemma. There was a lot of hope when barack obama was elected. I dont think anyone thought that it
They had beautiful skin. I noticed another trend. This is much more disturbing. The students were not prepared for what i was attempting to teach them. They had come to the classroom less and less prepared. There were these moments in the classroom they would look at me and i would think the same thing they were. Part of me as a christian, i felt the lord was impressing on me. These are your children. If they are going to love me with their mind, it is your responsibility make sure that they are successful. That is the spirit and the heart of what raising the standards is about. That is the initiative were here to talk about. We believe it is raising the standards as one of a initiative that can help not just those students but those of the coming today and tomorrow. If we fastforward 15 years, a collective minority will be larger than the white population in classrooms today. This is the first time in u. S. History. We have seen some progress among hispanic students in terms of high s
To discuss race in america, we have a special number for you to dial. Host finally, our fourth line this morning has been set aside for st. Louis area residents. 2025853883. Host we are going to begin this morning with the editorial from the st. Louis post dispatch this morning. Ferguson we earned this. St. Louis earned this moment by not paying attention to immunities dominated by s, becoming then oxygen that fed the flame of protests and concentrated poverty. In the first editorial that this page wrote on the Michael Brown case, we noted that the likelihood of conviction in the low. Is extremely that remains true. It is the simple reality of most police shootings. But there can be an important conviction, the conviction of. E city to change here is the Huffington Post se vote this morning, Huffington Post cut Huffington Post this morning. Showing support for Darren Wilson and other Police Officers. , according to him, got exactly what he deserved. Arnold traveled to the event in. T.
Stunning new comments about the government response. Right now, oklahoma, north dakota, nebraska, are among the two dozen states seeing significant increases in new cases. And the nation reported more than 45,000 new cases in the last day alone. In washington, talks on a relief package are set to pick up as House Speaker nancy pelosi signals the fight is likely to roll into next week. Negotiators, though, still deadlocked on multiple major issues including Unemployment Insurance. And in a wide ranging interview, President Trump says this about the battle against covid across the u. S. Right now i think it is under control. Ill tell you how, a thousand americans are dying a day. They are dying, it is true, it is what it is, but that doesnt mean we arent doing everything we can, it is under control as much as you can control it. Nbcs Shannon Pettypiece is at the white house, kasie hunt live on capitol hill. Shannon, the new comments from President Trump particularly when it comes to how
So badly. Hoover thought fdr was an actual madman. And back then Inauguration Day was not until march 4th, a holdover from the countrys early days when transportation was not so easy. So president hoover had a whole four months as a lame duck president , and he decided to use them to try to get fdr to abandon the new deal, you know, the plan on which fdr had just won a landslide victory. The journalist Ronald Schaffer writes at the Washington Post this week, quote, at their first postelection facetoface meeting on november 22nd in the red room of the white house, hoover opened the meeting with an hourlong lecture on International Economic issues. Hoover later told an adviser hed been educating a very ignorant, if wellmeaning young man. Fdr, by the way, was 50 years old at the time and just eight years younger than hoover. Hoover kept asking fdr to sign on to economic plans with him, and fdr kept saying no because he had run against hoovers economic plans. Hoover publicly released the t