The end. We want to take you now to a live shot of the bay wear in san francisco. Stop what you are doing and look at your screen t doesnt look real, have wildfires burning on all sides other than the ocean and it create this smokey orange haze that looks like dusk or a mf year on mars or something. One localing forecaster says theyre not expecting to see much blue sky in the bay area until friday or probably the week end. Trevor sweet lord. Did you see that sky . All across the bay area. Wildfires have turned the skies into an apocalyptic orange haze. Which is freaking everyone out. You no he it is not just the fact that the sky looks like gritty exploded in downtown san francisco, what is freaking people out is that Climate Change has turned devastating wildfires into an annual event in california. Its clear, humans have one of two choices. Either we do the hard work we need to reverse Climate Change, or in the next ten years, humans have to rapidly evolve our bitch ass skin to somet
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The early modern era. And by that i mean, essentially, three things. First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of european dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. And then finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of American History. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures, and you might say continents. People from europe, people from west africa, and people from native america. So today were going to talk about one of those three pillars. The african slave trade. Now, i want to begin with a quote by a very eminent africanamerican scholar activist named w. E. B. Dubois. Heres what dubois said about the atlantic slave trade. Dubois wrote the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of Human History is the transportation of 10 million human beings out
Difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. By that i mean essentially three things, first, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of european dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. And then finally we are talking today about one of the very foundations of American History. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures and you might say continents. People from europe, people from west africa and people from native america. So today were going to talk about one of those three pillars, the african slave trade. I want to begin with a quote by a very eminent africanamerican scholar, activist named web du bois wrote, the transportation of 10 million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother co
The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a part start of the cold war. But these three men and their staff came to potsdam not to begin a cold war amongst themselves, but celebrate, really, the end of the war with germany, figure out what the post world war was going to look like, and plan for the final victory over japan in the pacific theater. This photograph very much reflects the spirit of potsdam, which i will talk a little bit more about in a bit, which was happy, which was victorious, which was joyful, wh