so we are at a point in our major institutions, in the one in which i m a professor at m.i.t., where the question is, how do we circle the wagons? how do we prevent true understanding, true dialogue, real conversation, and ultimately, the advancement of humanity. so this man, cohen, i think reads his constituencies very well. there is an effort to make a decision as to how america will proceed. when i understand or try to interpret comments about closing down government, does that mean a destruction of america? if so, why? clearly, it s not a desire on the part of people of color. my brothers and sisters do not want to destroy america, to shut down government. so why is it that the opposition takes that position? in part because they fear, as cohen says there, that the loss of that way of life. i want to bring you in after we
an unreliable source for the story. following that admission, the report faced even more criticism and the mcclatchy news service reported this week that there are even deeper problems with the cbs story than the network has acknowledged and they simply have not yet acknowledged any of those aspects, including the claim that the attack was well planned and orchestrated solely by al qaeda on claims that mcclatchy says has little evidence. so cbs news says it is conducting an ongoing journalistic review of this story and certainly, there are many matters still to sort out. but one thing that is clear at this point is that 06 minutes failed to deliver accurate news to the people, but let me make this claim. in particular, with the kind of sensitivity to international news, but domestic stories, as an audience, you have your own context, right? if i tell you that the economy had recovered but you and your neighbors don t have jobs, you can judge for yourself how well you think the econom
but they have the ex-minister having problems, corruption issues. they have to give in something. and at a certain point, china is going to have more reproductive freedom than the u.s. and few eer gulags than russia. this is quite a difference. you have a very insecure regime right now, who s been talking moua and marks for the last few months. his predecessor, hu jintao. and we talk about wen jiabao, and those issues that didn t exist before. particularly on social issues. yes, social issues, this one-child policy is very controversial, and a lot of chinese people, not all of them, as we talk about, but some people really want two children. you have to come back and talk about this idea of how social media actually challenges regimes in this way. i know there s a lot of nerds who are interested in that. thanks to charlie, to rula, and to gordon.
he paused for a moment and looked at me and said, wes, they get it through their mother s milk. so we just used the phrase, language of disgust. obviously, there s a cultural disgust. and in the south, i think this hatred, this disgust, this disdain for blackness comes through their mother s milk. it s in the air, it s in the apples that they eat, it s in the tobacco that they plant. it is a profound disgust. so the question of interracial marriage a boo-boo, it just doesn t happen. it s impossible. it s against everything that we believe. it s against god s wish in the south. this notion of it being so deeply engrained, culturally, and yet, professor, the other piece i want to make the point about here, it has policy consequences, even unto today. particularly in the attempts to control the bodies of black women around issues of reproductive justice. sure, sure. there s a long history of trying
they control education, and control the media. because you shape the public opinion, you can do with them whatever you want. let me get you briefly in here. your metaphor about the neighborhood is exactly right. we ve got to travel to other neighborhoods and see what it looks like from their perspective. so, you know, in washington, we had this narrative about syria. saddam hussein sorry, john kerry is equivocating, he s not equivocating. obama s equivocating. there s all this discussion about what the political reality is. and i speak to israelis, their narrative is, obama stepped up, threatened military action, whatever was going on politically and the syrians stepped up. and now the israelis want to so it s a success. it s a success and the israelis want to see that success replicated with iran. however, you might have a different perspective in the sense of the continuing violence there. at each point, giving context. i ll give an education nation