1922. It just recently had a birthday to her . Europe. Now did you grow up in gilbert fill . First 18 years i was in gilbert phil. I have not spent any time since then. As Gilbert Ville where you would consider to be your hometown . It would be considered to be my hometown. How many brothers and sisters did you have growing up what was your family size makeup . Two brothers and one sister. Where did you fit in . I was number three. Before we started recording, we were talking a bit about your family and growing up during the depression. Could you tell me a little bit about that what life was like for you coming up during that time . , well my father was an irish american. He emigrated from ireland to the United States to find a better place to live. He and his family came over here. Ive looked up their papers and found out they have 600 dollars for the whole family when they emigrated to the United States. My father spent most of his life and the clothing cloth industry. He was either
I was born in gilbertville, massachusetts, march 10th, 1922. You just recently had a birthday, too. Yep. Now did you grow up in gilbertville . First 18 years i spent in gilbertville. And i have not spent any time since then. Is gilbertville where you would consider to be your home town . It would be considered my home town. And how many brothers and sisters did you have growing up, what was your family size and makeup . Two brothers and one sister. And where did you fit in . I was number three. Before we started recording, we were talking a bit about your family and growing up during the depression years. Could you tell me about that, what life was like for you coming up during that time . Well, my father was an irishamerican and immigrated from ireland to the United States to find a better place to live. And he and his family came over here and i have looked up their papers and found out that they had 600 for the whole family when they immigrated to the United States. My father spent
Can to reverse in this country for a long time we saw ourselves as a country with a racial problem underneath that that there are pure races that exist in this country a white race from europe for a black race from africa and an asian race from asia and the latino race. I dont know where or even that the actual name comes after the attempt to take somebody something from somebody happens so define problem but really it is the things about we continue to do to this very day. But the way that racism is a figure into the idea of race we will talk about a particular power it was created through the housing policies sold talkedabout the place and also in our daily lives. Guest. Let me say the fact that we live separately every metropolitan area has a nervous implications for so maybe you can start there and talk about housing in and how it affects us in our daily lives. Let me say the fact that we live separately every metropolitan area has a nervous implications for those that we face i sp
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 some democrats were perfectly willing to have integration in the north as long as they could preserve segregation in the south, going back to the time of slavery, never a dispute whether it could be prohibited in the north, we had border state problems in missouri and kansas, but the north was free to integrate as long as is the south could preserve segregation. That doesnt explain the housing issue. The other reason i think is that well i guess its not really an answer to your question why they did it, why its so hard to think about this problem, and that is we desegregated formally every area of American Life but when we desegregate busses the next day africanamericans can sit anywhere on the bus, desegregated lunch counters and the next day africanamericans could sit down at the lunch counters. We desegregated schools and the next day, but we desegregate neighborhoods what happens . How do we put our heads around what were
Cspan. Org. New york Times Economics and tax reporter joins us now via zoom for the conversation about joe bidens campaign you series of economic plants. The first of which was released last week. The second came yesterday. He first explained the pitch that the Biden Campaign was making would these spending and Economic Investment plans. Thank you so much for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. Which will biden is trying to do is counter President Trump on the economy. President won election in part on the string of a very populous pitch for workers who feel left behind and in the current economy and in particular, biden making lots of appeals to the industrial midwest about manufacturing. The first part of joe bidens new plan that he put out last week its called build better back or build back better. It is an alliteration. A little like a little laugh love of the economy. What the vice, the former Vice President wants to do with that plan is to promote much more of a by american et