[laughter] see you know what that means, ive received the walkout, the storm the stage strategy, and at Claremont Mckenna in southern california, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Socalled students of color at nearby Pomona College announced i w i was ignoring systems of domination that produce lethal conditions under which oppressed people are forced to live. So to actually have an audience still in its seats and apparently willing to listen is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now, weve been hearing a lot of late about the crisis of free speech on College Campuses, but not much about its root cause. The narcissistic victimology that is rapidly spreading from academia to the rest of culture. In a word, the American University is in the grips of a mass hysteria. Students actually believe that they are victims of oppression at risk of their lives from racism and sexism. The degree of caterwailing is hard to overstate.
Howard lee was the first African American elected mayor in a majoritywhite southern city. Coming up we sit down with mr. Lee to talk about serving as mayor in the 1960s and 1970s and the challenges he faced in office. Why did you did he sid to run for mayor of chapel hill . It was probably more of an accident than on purpose. I went to a friend of mine and asked him to run for mayor because i didnt think a black person had a prayer of being elected mayor. He didnt want to do that and couldnt persuade me to do it. What he did was go to the local newspaper and tell them he had a scoop, which is that i planned to run for mayor. The newspaper, without even checking, printed that story as a front page headline and that of course split the Chapel Hill Community and following that i had pressure on both sides, pressure from one group thinking it was the most exciting thing since winning an ncaa championship and another group thinking it would be the dumbest thing. Even in the black community
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She is also a lawyer. Ms. Girma, what kind of law do you practice . Guest would you call me haben . Host haben, yes, maam. Guest and the kind of law i do is disability rights. Im focused on using my skills to advance opportunities for people with disabilities. Host why did you choose that type of law . Guest i was born deafblind. Most of our world is designed for people who can see and hear, and when we ask for accommodations for example, getting materials in braille instead of print a lot of society refuses, putting up barriers. And that limits our ability to get an education, to go and get a job, and thats not fair. So i experienced a lot [inaudible] and the law is one way that we can create change. And i wanted to create a change and remove barriers so people with disabilities for people with disabilities. Is so my own personal story and struggle inspired me to become an attorney. Host and here is her book, has beenen the deafblind woman who conquered harvard law. First deafblind pe
Dr. James iredell robertson junior associate professor of Civil War History at Virginia Tech. He is the author or editor of various books, including shifting grounds, nationalism and the american south, which won the British Association for american studies but prize, the book prize the jefferson , davis award for the museum of the confederacy, and the albert lee sturm award. His work has appeared in journals such as the journal of southern history and the journal of the civil war era. Among his Research Research project are the South Carolina cosman who achieved notoriety by caning senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the senate in 1856. And mapping the fourth of july and the civil war era, a project with colleagues in education, Computer Science and the libraries at Virginia Tech. He serves on the board of the society of civil war historians, the Editorial Board of the journal of Civil War History, the board of the smithfield press foundation and the historians Advisory Board of th