Good evening and welcome to Hudson Institute policy center. Im john walters, the chief operating officer and i like to welcome our audience here out of pennsylvania avenue headquarters and our cspan audience to our first ever podcast keeping, that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast of the Second Season of the realignment hosted by hudson media fellow marshall kosloff. We are proud of the realignment here at hudson. Podcast launched last year and i recommend aspersion for those of you who have been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh hawley, micah gallagher, Michael Doran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring up topics and to move the argument along. We couldnt be prouder of the work they have done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with m
Maps. What on the man anytime, unfiltered cspan. Org coronavirus. Good evening and welcome to upton Institute Foreign policy center. Im john walters, since the operating officer and i like to welcome our audience here at our pennsylvaniaavenue headquarters. And our defense audience to our first ever podcast taking that is both live and march 2 season of the premier of the podcast of the Second Season of the realignments hosted by hudson media fellows Marshall Marshall kosloff. We are proud of the realignments. The podcast launched last year and i recommend especially for those of you who havent been following it , if you take a look at the results from last year, particularly the conversation with secretaryof state mike pompeo, josh only , chris armani, mike gallagher, mike doran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the 2 people who put it together and their ability to bring up topics and to move the argument along so we could be proud of the work that theyve done and
Postponed new in depth programs. We are showing highlights from past programs. First from november of 2018, author imani perry, author of several books including a history of the black National Anthem and breeze which is written as a letter to her son. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you see i wonder if people are irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity so that when i go into the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart, those people would not have a different history or body, but it would be a different relationship to identity that i think would potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. When i went into later in the first paragraph saying a person, an individual can be a heaven, certainly both as someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example john brown or bob zellner, some of the mo
So that when i go into the second paragraph where im like what if we took this identity apart, those people would not sort of, have a different history or body. But it would be a different relationship to identity. I think as a consequence, we have a more humane relationship to each other. When i got leader into the first paragraph when im saying an individual can be a heaven. Certainly, both someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example, john brown. Who i think are some of the most precious people in the world. Its important to me to not have a formulation that removes them. So thats what i was thinking. One more question before we move on to some of your other books. Mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yeah. Its a sentence my mother said to me. I think about it in a number of different ways. People talk about, in some ways that are difficult and maybe not a really hopeful about the challenges that black boys
Sort of the frenzied pace, but it was beautiful. I learned so much in i was nurtd by all of the generations of people who came before me and helped me understand the world. Youve written a biography of the song. May we forever stand is the name of the book. James johnson and john rosa monde they are the author and composer. They were brothers born in jacksonville florida. Renaissance men and of course back in the day they were called race man. People who thought every achievement they had as being in the service of the race. He became the first secretary general of the naacp. Really extraordinary. One of the signature accomplishments was the accomplishment of the song. They were firstgeneration freemen. Born in the 1870s . Yes, they were of that generation that emerged from slavery with these hopes and dreams and aspirations that were so quickly dashed with the end of reconstruction. What was extraordinary is that the song caught on like wildfire. It was the most immediately embraced a