captioning sponsored by public affairs television this week on bill moyers journal. moyers: a bull-riding cowboy has some words for washington about medical care. just like all the people that got the money to rape the poor then they rape the middle clas¡ til the middle class becomes poor, and then they re going to just start, you know, raping the rich. you know? and they re going to break the country, i think. moyers: how does this journalist/actress do it? i think about what i m doing as putting myself in other people s words the way you think about putting yourself in other people s shoes. and i just really love that process. moyers: anna deavere smith and let me down easy . stay tuned. from our studios in new york, from our studios in new york, bill moyers. moyers: welcome to the journal. there s a happening here in new york you just wish could be a command performance for everyone debating health care reform. night after night, and at three matine
captioning sponsored by public affairs television this week on bill moyers journal. moyers: a bull-riding cowboy has some words for washington about medical care. just like all the people that got the money to rape the poor then they rape the middle clas¡ til the middle class becomes poor, and then they re going to just start, you know, raping the rich. you know? and they re going to break the country, i think. moyers: how does this journalist/actress do it? i think about what i m doing as putting myself in other people s words the way you think about putting yourself in other people s shoes. and i just really love that process. moyers: anna deavere smith and let me down easy . stay tuned. from our studios in new york, from our studios in new york, bill moyers. moyers: welcome to the journal. there s a happening here in new york you just wish could be a command performance for everyone debating health care reform. night after night, and at three matine
mr. ayers to reject his past in bomb making and terrorism. did he realize and does he realize even now that innocent people who had nothing to do with his target organizations could be hurt by such tactics, 1k3 ken decker the e-mails in, why does bill ayers think that bombing the u.s. capitol and police stations was a good idea? .. americans opposed the war. what happened? well, antiwar activists were part of the story. probably the least important except important to me because i was one. more important than that was the black freedom movement came out in large numbers to oppose the war. martin luther king certainly from 1965- 68, read his speeches. he calls the u.s. government the greatest purveyor of violence on earth. he calls for, he calls the war illegal. he risks all of his prestige and his allies to make the point that the war is wrong morally, ethically, that it s illegal, and that it s a travesty and a catastrophe for the world. he says in april 4, 1967, we need to
evidence of it and i would not be here if it were true. .. oppression. you know, privileged kids get a fine education. there s no doubt about they always have, and they go on to have their life opportunities opened. kids who are poor, the children of formerly enslaved people tend not to do as well and that s been true for as longs i have been a teacher. host: we have gotten several e-mails along this line. jesse of connecticut. still waiting for mr. ayers to thoroughly reject his past in bomb making and terrorism, did he realize and does he realize even now that innocent people could be hurt by such tactics and ken desk at the e-mails in that why does bill ayers thing that bombing the u.s. capitol and police stations is a good inside. guest: i have to take a minute to talk about this. the fact is, i was arrested in 1965 opposing the war. at that point something like 75 or 80% of americans supported the war. i work for the next three years to oppose the war from 1965 to
true. so that s to say that. i m not sure that i would oppose the notion of a classical education. i think it s a mistake, and i don t, again, know what the evidence is to say that somehow the far left took over education. where in chicago can we point to a school that the far left took over? i wouldn t even know exactly what that would look like, but the fact is that our educational system today is much as it was 60 years ago, and that is that some people succeed brilliantly, and some people fail miserably, and you can track that success and failure along the lines of traditional privilege and oppression. you know, privileged kids get a fine education. there s no doubt about they always have, and they go on to have their life opportunities opened. kids who are poor, who are the children of immigrants, who are the children of formerly enslaved people dend not to do as well, and that s been true for as long as i ve been a teacher. host: mr. ayers, we ve gotten several e-ma