Think shes been a great leader. She is really good at raising money, thats not one of my fortes. I was never good at that. They have to start training younger people and bring it younger people into the caucus. They need to become the future leaders. One of the things that i believe then with all my heart and soul is you have to know when to leave. Nancy does not feel was the time to leave. Stay forght she might this coming year. She could turn the reins over to somebody else. Is anybody around, ready to replace her . Its a hard job. I give her a lot of credit for what she has been able to do. I think its time that the leaders start looking at who is going to fill my spot . We are all replaceable. Younger people need to take our spots with fresh ideas and new ways of doing things. I see nothing wrong with that. Thats progression. Thats a normal progression. You can watch the full interview and are conversation with tom petri at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Iran over theith Nuclear Program wi
To this reason i want to address an issue of the National Congress of American Indians which has worked on for almost 50 years, i want to talk about the negative stereotypes that native people continue be subjected to in our society, in particular i want to talk about the name of the washington football team. The state reward the dead indians has been increased to 200 for every redskins centre purgatory. This psalm is more of dead bodies east of the dead river are worse history is clear on what that vile word meant, it was a scout head of an American Indian, man woman or child that trappers and hunters sold to the government like beaver pelts the money. Let me be very clear the single most offensive name you can call an American Indian is red skin. Thank god today the majority of people agree, in a recent National Survey 83 of americans said they wouldnt use that r word to an american natives face. You know the team owner stands on the wrong side of history, he has dug in his heels and
Breaking up the foggy conditions for parts of the north bay this morning. A going bridget shot. Were a flogging in this morning temperatures are still fairly mild 56 downtown San Francisco oakland 49 san jose lower 50s and in fact where expecting another warm day to day. Excess of low clouds tuesday the start off temperature is really start to cool down tuesday and notice the difference tomorrow wednesday thursday watching the storm arriving was the right rain no big rainmaker. But still going to see some rain wednesday and thursday. And a Cloud Visibility looking into a foggy conditions not everywhere livermore confining clear. Tucker fairfield nappa down to west less than half a mile and santa rosa the ground to and have Half Moon Bay down the zero. Is driving along with xhosas morning. You will encounter dense fog out there keep that in mind as youre heading up the door temperatures today other really nice day left the sunshine for the afternoon lunch time we see a lot of sunday as
Homework in just be homework. Cox connected to compete. Cox, along with these television companies, support cspan 2 as a public service. Okay, thank you guys. We are the okay, great. Hi everybody. Welcome to disability in American History and culture. It is great to see you all and i hope you had a great spring break, so our plan for the day. We are going to start with a review. I assume that you havent spent your thing about our class, so this is designed to just get you back on track to think about some of the most important themes and ideas that we discussed in our class so far. Then i will lecture on the topic for todays class which is disability in the early United States and we will talk about how disability was to find in the years after the American Revolution, how ableism shaped into national law and how some disabled people push back and fought for greater access and equality. Okay, so for a review our class began with really complex really about the experience of disability.
Assume that you havent spent your spring break thinking about our class. So this is designed to just get you back on track. To think about some of the most important themes and ideas that we have discussed in our class so far. Then i will lecture the topic for todays class, which is disability in the early united states. We will talk about how disability was defined in the years after the American Revolution, how able is shaped Early National law, and how some disabled people push back and fought for greater access and equality. Okay, so for our review, our class began by thinking really complexity about the meeting and experience of disability. So, we discussed two primary models for conceptualizing disability. The first was the medical model of disability and this is probably the most common understanding of disability in america today. In this model, disability is viewed as an individual problem, right . So if someone has an impairment, say, hey lynn difference, a visual limitation,