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Bob Buckley

The Examiner I begin with the recognition that I received a good education from the Independence School District. I was a lazy student, opting out of the difficult math courses after struggling to pass geometry. I finished near the top of my class, but only because they did not have weighted classes in 1971. I had many excellent teachers during my 13 years in the district, but I fear the curriculum was deficient in some respects. Several of my friends and I were recently lamenting our history lessons in school. Eight of us, all lawyers, regularly share observations on recent events. We agree on much, but especially in our lament over the division in our country. We also agree that our history educations were sterile and uncontroversial.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190619:19:26:00

alived for the electrocution of george stinney. he was alive for the blinding of isaac woodward. professor patterson, it s an interesting question because a lot of americans don t sucpport the idea of reparation for one thing, i didn t do it. a couple things on that, ali. first of all, part of the issue for mcconnell is that we are responsible in the present moment for we inherent all kinds of issues from the past for which we were not responsible and direct actors but that we have to grapple with. what s interesting about what mcconnell said were a couple of things. first of all i think it shows a limited understanding of what reparations are and what they look like and the different ways that they can manifest themselves. secondly, there has been an ongoing historical debate starting with 40 acres and a mule about reparations that keep getting obfiscated about who s

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130727:10:54:00

let me ask you this. i m rung out of time. but tell us the story of isaac woodward, the black veteran returning home from the war. well, very briefly, isaac woodward was a technical sergeant in the army traveling home through south carolina after world war ii. and he asked the bus driver if he could please get off at the next stop so he could make a quick stop to the men s room. and the bus driver said boy, sit back down and stop talking to loudly. woodward said i m a man and you will speak to me as a man. this was too much for the bus driver to bear. so when they pulled into the next town, the bus driver invited two police officers on board. they took mr. woodard off the bus and they began to beat him. and when he fought back, the sergeant took his nightstick, it was a sawed off nightstick and began to beat sergeant woodard in the eyeballs. he ruptured both of his eyeballs and then arrested him. sergeant woodard awoke in a jail cell the next day blind.

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