Hungary is an eu member, but the government there the leadership has basically said we have our own conception of the of state interests, and we are going to emulate russia more than were going to emulate the e. U. , so your seeing a real crackdown on media and civil society. There was a recent protest, as im sure youre aware, bat new internet tax. Its really interesting. No one was really reacting to all these threats and attacks on journalists but when they started taxing the internet, that got people agitated. Goes to my point about linking the struggle for Media Freedom to the broader struggle for freedom of expression. But hungary is absolutely going the wrong direction. We just sent a mission to hungary led by our cpj board member, who is hungarian american and knows the country well, and her report was very chilling. She wrote about it in an oped for the times but this is a country that is an e. U. Member bus it rejecting e. U. Values. You mentioned earlier that the Chinese Gove
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Host that dating kit. Guest fortunately i do not remember that. When i was writing i realize that it did have an impact because when michael came to visit us i was about four or five years old. I remember that it was traumatizing. I remember sighing uncontrollably. I knew that somehow that must have been indicative of the missing my father. Parole will is moms rather. And he was actually the president of the Milwaukee Branch of the Marcus Garvey movement. He held Marcus Garvey get out of jail back in the 1920s. A pastor, an activist, i great preacher, all of these great things that instill values in children. Host where did you live and how did he die . Guest guys, well, killed by the black legion, i group with the kkk back in the 1920s during the great depression. And you know they put him, you know, not in the greatest situation, but he was killed did talk about in his autobiography. Just really an invincible. The strength of the family. He would take his son with them when he was sp