Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official, like a mayor governor, senator president , cant be censor order not distorted and not to respect it and to try to answer it or even to acknowledge it so that people know its not going to some dark hole, is major issue, i think and most young people dont realmize that a written letter to pool particular has far more impact than an email. They get lots of letters. I income a half million a week. Guest yes. Host certainly you dont expect th
President bushs experience after katrina. Was that racial . I dont think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. This was the hurricane that of course affected so many of minorities and lower income people who were hurt by the storm in louisiana mississippi. Particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans. We saw people people on rooftops waiting for help. I think, and even president bill clinton in this book, he says i dont think it was an issue of racism, his policies just did not help elevate people in poverty. Now we talk about katrina. President bush got in a lot of trouble for the fact that he was caught up in the state right issue. The state had to deal with it and that was what bogged him down. Because people felt disenfranchised from their government, they felt left alone. Because people died, people died, he did get in trouble. Barack obama is the first, probably not the last africanamerican president that you will cover but his grade isnt as high as bill
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