Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
Dates back to antiquity. This is just under an hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our Louis Lehrman auditorium. We of course will come those joining us on all of these occasions on our heritage. Org web site inhouse as we prepare to begin. Please make sure cell phones have been turned off. It is a courtesy or speakers to appreciate. We will post the Program Within 24 hours on a homepage for your your further reference as well. Hosting are then today is steven bucci director of r. Douglas and Sarah Allison center for foreignpolicy studies. He previously served heritage is Senior Research fellow for defense and homeland security. He was wellversed in the special Area Operations in cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil authorities. He served for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top pentagon official in july 2001. He assumed the duties of military assistant to secretary rumsfeld and work daily with the secretary for the next
The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray last october families and communities across our country were forced to endure a completely unnecessary Government Shutdown. Coming after years of budget uncertainty and constant crises the shutdown hurt our workers and threatened our fragile economic recovery and it shook the confidence of people across the country who expected their elected officials to come together to avoid such a needless and selfinflicted crisis. It was a dark time here in congress and i think many of my colleagues regret letting a teept minority push us into that. Mr. President , when the shutdown finally ended i sat down with House Budget Committee chairman paul ryan in a budget conference that many of us had been trying to start for months. We worked through the issues, we compromised and we reached a twoyear budget deal that rolled back devastat
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