the black national anthem. the title of the song is lift every voice and sing. been around since 1900, but some are saying, including the guy sitting fex to next to me, dr. askew, are saying it is divisive. we appreciate you being here. talked to you before the break about why you think the song should just not be labeled that. it could apply to so many people with struggle. reverend jesse jackson is on the phone with us from chicago. i can show you why there he is. the reason we have to do it like this, having some weather issues there in chicago. reverend jackson, we appreciate you nonetheless being willing to hang in there with us and get on the horn at least. reverend jackson, several years ago you were trying to bring this song back, trying to put it back into the black consciousness and here we are now, there is a book out and a professor making a case that the song is divisive in some way by
i even had very militant black students, very militant black restaurants say dr. askew, if they keep calling this song black national anthem, it is dividing us because other people have also experienced the same pain that black folks have. is our pain much more important than their pain? reverend jackson, i ll let you wrap it up here. the bible says remove not the ancient landmarks our mothers and fathers have set. this experience of the 246 years of slavery is a part of a landmark. the other way to put it, the children crossing the jordan river, put 12 stones in the river. why? might memorialize our struggle that those who do not know might learn. because if those come along and do not know the roots, they have no appreciation. in some sense it is a song of faith and struggle says a lot about america s challenge, its history and its unfinished business. you need look no further than the shirley sherrod experience
in his words. to me that doesn t stand to reason. songs in our unique slavery experience, our unique jim crow experience and it is a song as if we shall overcome regarding our years when our brothers saved this far along the way. i was talking with a group this week of latino leaders who were concerned that they re trying to remove ethnic studies in arizona. the attempt to excerpt ethnic studies in school, the attempt to sterexcerpt the tape that dr about the shirley sherrod, we shouldn t excerpt the tape. the multi-culturism is the richness and genius of the american experience. reverend jackson, what would you say today, the value of the song is and the popularity even of it, a black national anthem. many people i talk to, just i
stories today and that s all of the heat. 22 states are under heat advisories and warnings. we ll tell you more about that and some flood issues we re concerned about later in the hour. thank you so much. we ll watch it all and keep an eye on the heat. let s turn to our reynolds wolf who s in new orleans for us, keeping an eye on things. i see you there in the monitor here shaking your head like what s going on now that you ve left the studio. i heard. i m not bonnie. i am not bon nibonnie. just to be fair, we have to dole out the abuse in even proportions here. that s what we re doing. guys, busy time in the gulf of
please, stop it, people. it is an experiment. us techie experts are trying to figure this out as well, what s the practical benefit to someone. a couple of things. one, if it could give us real-time data. for example, if i m following my wife s car, for example, she can t tweet while she s driving but if she s stuck if traffic, that could maybe alert me that i need to take a different route to go another way. there are some potential applications that may be useful to the general public based around those things, but it is an experiment and that s what i think we need to think about here, the fact that these ford engineers said what if we did internet connectivity in the car all the time. twitter is hot. i wonder if there is any connection there, let s try it out and see. i know that gm is doing kind of an onstar mobile app but we can t really get into that because we are so tight on time. but real quick, you talk about a trend of people customizing their cars with mobile devices and