Where does this collective bigotry come from if it is so is a later spelt with a good polite conversation 5 or 10 minutes you. See. You are a rational person so therefore youre looking for rationale yes these are real racist people indeed theres no question about it if they werent they would not be in the most racist organization known to this country the ku klux klan i so yes many of them are very hard core racists but the reason why some of them will top know there are those who would not talk to me out of fear of me out of thinking that they were that much superior than me and didnt have time for me or whatever but those who did talk to me yes indeed were racist but they did not feel that they had anything to lose you know they wanted to demonstrate their superiority over me we just why they talk to me but over time they began to find out that we have more in common than we had in superiority or inferiority so what were those people like tell me more about them were they hard core e
Wrote a book about it so when you were starting to work on your book did you yourself have any preconceptions about clansmen on how many of those stages are eventually. Well yes i did have some up preconceptions about them because you know as a child we hear things like a tiger never change its stripes a leopard never changes the spots so why would i think that a klansman would change his robe and hood so i had no intentions or perceived ideas that these people and i think all i want to know from them was how can you hate me you dont even know me just tell me that and ill be happy but through the course of conversation and dialogue we began to humanize one another and we will find if you spend 5 minutes with your worst enemy you will find something in common if you spend 2 minutes i mean 10 minutes youll find even more so if you nurture those commonalities you are forging a relationship if you know which are the relationship you are then forging a friendship and so that friendship the
back in 1969. today, conservative justices are acting like a super legislative body to roll back rights, pushing a right wing agenda that the majority of americans do not want. also tonight, the culture of violence in america. and how the powerful gun lobbyists created a permission structure where it s not just about the right to own guns, it s fair game to use them. and sinking in the polls. ron desantis is now pushing his vulgar, hate-filled anti-lgbtq message all across america in lieu of any actual policy proposals to help the american people. but we begin tonight with the supreme court, which now days is acting more like a super congress, with last week s rulings on affirmative action and lgbtq rights and on everything from voting rights to women s right, labor policies and guns, they acted like unelected politicians and not a court. it s the result of a long game from a right wing that recognizes that they have lost the culture wars. so instead, they say fine. we
Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
I want to talk to you about a few things. S time for a true discussion. Not the lies we get from media and tenured leftists and the rest. Talk about the facts, i wont go to civil war, where Democrat Party was tied to hip with confederacy, and dadavis of a democrat,. No. I wont go to Bles Plessy Versus Ferguson but i will go to woodrow wilson, one of the great socalled leading progressive intellectuals in late 1800s and 1900s president of princeton university, governor of new jersey and elected president of United States, and he overturned every major prointegration law that was put in place by the republicans who preceded him. Recession gated the departments of federal government, Fired Black Forward Administrate hours, and openly sympathetic to the kkk. And he was critical of reconstruction. Less than than 60 years ago, 1964 Civil Right Act was opposed by 69 of Senate Democrats supported by 82 of Senate Republicans and opposed by 61 of House Democrats and supported 80 percent of House