Super interesting to one the biggest differences there are no ghettos in switzerland and portugal. But they couldnt do is act like the people who were attics were others. In switzerland if you are an addict in switzerland switzerland the semis picture postcard you have in your head. Its a nice little place with lovely ordered parks and if youre a heroin addict people see you are a heroin addict reader have the equivalent of words shot away. That was really importance of part of the job offers that we would like to dismantle ghettoization and United States apart it is about humanizing people and saying we are all people as we all deserve a chance to live. We all deserve a chance to be happy and we can choose policies to do that. Thank you all for your questions. I really loved it. Thank you. [applause] i shouldve said i will now sign your books if you want me to. We will be here until 10 00 so please feel free to hang around and talk to johann. Grab a glass of wine, coffee and buy some
Democracy or its ideals. Just wondering from critiquing american decisions, how did we do what mistakes we make and how would you do it differently . I dont have time to tell you all the mistakes that were made here. The basic problem has been not having a strategy, not having an idea and reacting. The arab uprising countess off guard here three months later what was our response . We still didnt have one. One year later, what do we want . Still dont have one. That goes on today. Pacific the u. S. Spends billions of dollars in egypt has been on the ground in all kinds of ways come the summer was share quite helpful to the country for decades and yet has managed to alienate and enrage every single constituency in the country. Somehow today, muslim brothers, revolutionary activist and human rights communities, the military that the u. S. Crucially bankrolled all feel betrayed and abridged by the United States because of the ways in which it is flawed, delayed we first overreacted to deve
Ramifications of passing which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater africanamerican community. Or topic for today is a chosen exile a history of racial passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs. Allyson hobbs is an assistant professor in the History Department at stanford university. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received im sorry from Harvard University and she received a ph. D. With distinction from the university of chicago. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and michelle are claman institute for gender research and the center for comparative study of race and ethnicity at stanford trade allison teaches courses on american identity africanamerican history africanamerican womens history and 20th century american history. She has won numerous Teaching Awards including the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize the grapes award in the humanities the sinclair great teaching award. She gave a ted
Significant economic support. You would also be healing an enormous amount of devastation in the community with africanamerican men who are massively incarcerated. One thing its very easy to lobby for his just pardons. Governors governors and the president just a mass pardoning people for these harmless offenses. I dont think i totally answered your question but i got somewhere there. Thank you. Its a man. Hooray. You are going to give a really test us around question to compensate. I first want to say thank you for your talk. Sort of piggybacking off of the last question there is a recent speaker here who wrote a book called drug war and capitalism boca singh on mexico and colombia superimposing this talk about the drug war on movements within the Global Capital and looking at in particular mexico where there is a correlation between the police and the cartels and a huge part of his labor organizers and people who are sitting on a really rich resources. Again its like literature on th
Do you care that they say, boy, lee kuan yew has created a miracle in singapore, but he is an authoritarian, he doesnt care about democracy, he cares little about a free press, doesnt care. Yes. Rose believes almost that he knows what is right for singapore, he knows what is right for the people and that he is going to see it the way he believes it ought to be, come hell or high water . Lets put it in a kinder more objective way. No, no not kinder, just more objective. I have to govern now 4 million people. 3 million singaporeans, 1 million are foreigners who get job in singapore and i have 1,100,000 are professionals. Why do they come there . Because it is a thriving economy that gives them jobs and their families are happy and safe. No drugs, no muggings, no rapings, you can walk the streets 3 00 oclock in the morning, you are okay. How is that achieved . By the manifest . You wont see any policemen there. You wont see soldiers lining the streets. Every four years to five years i hav