Hilary and for now i am pleased to introduce tonights author and his new book the fever of 1721. Stephen coss has a bachelors degree in journalism. He has worked as an Advertising Agency copywriter and served wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. The fever of 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] stephen i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election. I had to vote absentee. I would rather be here right now. The line of fire. Stephen exactly. That is a nonpartisan position. It is a fancy phrase for poll worker. I get to register new voters. Firsttime voters, naturalized citizens. I like it a lot. Thank you very much
A way of life for a group of men in a society over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it here we are 2 over 49 years after going off the Gold Standard in 1971 which is a moral code and a legal system of its own it imposes a moral code upon the Economic System in terms of honesty and terms of distribution of wealth but here we have a system that 49 years later has become rotten the institutions have melted and disintegrated and we have people like our own senator here in North Carolina that senator richard burr who was caught not only dumping a whole bunch of shares 2000000. 00 worth after he secret inside information about the coronavirus but it turns out its even worse when senator richard burr not only engaged in obvious Insider Trading on the coronavirus after receiving intelligence reports on the looming pandemic but he also sold his townhouse to a farmer a lobbyist above market price for a tidy profit so
One pleases or the power of choice 11 definition that has been tossed around in political circles rallies for the definition of liberty a lot these days is that liberty is the freedom from arbitrary or despotic control. And it was apparently this particular definition that led hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of u. S. Citizens across the country from michigan and minnesota down to texas and up to colorado to throw down their face masks and rubber gloves and take to their streets their capitol buildings and their governors residences in protest of the social distancing policies and stay at home borders that have affectively closed businesses both large and small across the country since the start of the code 19 pandemic us President Donald Trump he triumphantly egged those protesters on tweeting proudly liberate michigan liberate minnesota and liberate virginia yes it was our undying need for liberty and freedom that caused these protests to take place much like the Boston Tea Party
A way of life for a group of men in a society over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it here we are over 49 years after going off the Gold Standard in 1971 which is a moral code and a legal system of its own it imposes a moral code upon the Economic System in terms of honesty and terms of distribution of wealth but here we have a system that 49 years later has become rotten the institutions have melted and disintegrated and we have people like our own senator here in North Carolina senator richard burr who was caught not only dumping a whole bunch of sharers 2000000. 00 worth after he secret inside information about the coronavirus but it turns out its even worse when senator richard burr not only engaged in obvious Insider Trading on the coronavirus after receiving intelligence reports on the looming pandemic but he also sold his townhouse to a farmer a lobbyist above market price for a tidy profit so here y
As a letter to her son. Here is a portion of that program. People here when you say i wonder if i can be irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear them as individuals as opposed to whiteness for the identity. And with the second paragraph so they dont have a different history or a body but a different relationship to identity. So potentially as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. So what i got to saying a person or individual so certainly like a white man or someone who thinks of those figures i take for example john brown are some of the most precious people in the world. Its important to me not to have a formulation and this is a struggle i am engaged in. One more question before we move on to your other book books, mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yes. My mother said to me and i think about it a number of different ways and one is of course all the risk as people talk incessantly that it is difficult and not necessarily helpful ab