My wonder if you have any advice on staying true to would you believe in but also wanting to engage helpfully. I think what we have to be true to what we believe in. If we ever start to feel the what were doing deviates from that, we have to reach center ourselves. We have to recognize we cant let perfect be the enemy of the good. If we are trying to persuade someone of something we have to think to the audience is and what we hope to achieve and if we are trying to convince someone to do something that may not be natural to them whether it is something as simple as recycling or registering or going to vote, something i am passionate about, we have to think what would be most convincing to them, not necessarily what first jumps to our mind. And recognizing that often there may be reasons people havent done things before which may not make sense to us but if we attempt to understand what that might be, hopefully that creates more of a space to persuade them for whatever we think they wi
Margo jefferson recalls growing up among the black elite in america, will haygood on Justice Thurgood marshall. Booktv. Org for a complete schedule, and a reminder to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram for updates all weekend. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Now, we kick off the weekend with two authors in a mock trial from freedom fest, a libertarian conference. Robert kuttner defends the Federal Reserve, and Robert Murphy prosecutes it. Lisa kennedy montgomery, host of kennedy on fox business, acts as the judge. Hear ye, hear ye, freedom fest court is now in session for this trial about the most important subject of our lives, money. [laughter] and how the governments central bank, the Federal Reserve, influences our lives every day. Judge kennedy is presiding at this hearing. All rise [cheers and applause] lets hear it. Hello, everyone. How are you . Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury, we are gathered here in this Gr
As a sociologist who studies race are wanted to brief the offer conceptualization on the book produce beautifully written and a contribution to the relative medea of serious reading of the black upper class. Media attention have almost exclusively focused its attention on the experiences of the black poor and workingclass at the expense of the upper class. And a class that has existed at least since the mid1800s the early upperclassmen service is the community as lawyers and doctors and entrepreneurs during the period of slavery and jim crow and in the north persisting defacto segregation. Those that have a history of organizations and activities that distinguish from any other class is within the black community as well as the white upperclass but contrary to understanding the black community always has been differentiated a round of lines of class and social status. I saw of this book with a number of africanamerican writers many of whom are referenced in the book including did you e
Could probably identify which one was urschel by emptying their wallets. So they stopped the car, get the wallet, take all of the money and give him ten bucks to get back to town and they take off. They take him out to a farm owned in west county texas just outside of dallas on by catherine kelleys fatherinlaw my guy known around town is bob. Its sort of a sad, broken down farm with a few animals where he lives with his wife and son and sons wife. So they stick urschel and they blindfold him, they use they keep him blindfolded for the entire ride. And for the next eight days he is basically blind and deaf and chained to a high chair actually or bed frame at various times of the day. But nevertheless, he is the kind of guy who does not part with his money very willingly. So, urschel, who grew up on a farm, in the midwest, realizes of course he is on a farm, begins counting the number of different animals, finds out how many there are, how many milking cows there are, all kinds of inform
A students . How many people in the adult prison system right now graduated Phi Beta Kappa . Right . There are correlations that we have to understand and be honest about. And so when we are watching the growth of the juvenile Justice System and the adult prison system, the adult prison system when you look at the fact that 64 of people have some form of interaction with the juvenile Justice System. The adult prison system is kids involved in a juvenile justice and we have now simply gotten older and are committing more serious crime and are now more heavily involved in what is now an adult system. System. That is how that evolution, talk about the pipeline, thats the pipeline the people are talking about. So be able to address these things at their core, like education, education free, but even once aa person gets involved, what is that education that we can provide . And there is a 3rda 3rd thing which becomes another critically important piece, this piece on economics. I remember wh