by comparison. our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time. our mother was a teacher. he is a serviceman. he volunteered. you know. and he was in the air force. and he just tells the story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant and when he came back out of the car it was with our mom you were a baby in her arms. and he was just acosted by this gang of young white kids. and he thought if he didn t have you in his arms as a baby that they would have beaten him and beaten my mother. he talks about when he got a house, you know, on the phone it was like all good and then he would go to check on the house and they re like who s moving in here? yeah. and he would talk often, you know, that he would end up on this board and he was like oh, i m the first black man who was on this board and i was the first black man who was part of this committee. and he wasn t saying it in a bragging way, just talking about his experiences. and i was like, wow, isn t that a
mitch mcconnell has said without mentioning the president s name he worries what is happening in syria and this piece in the washington post, must hold our treat will invite the approval of the aside regime and iranian backers to spend their influence and we are ignoring russia s efforts to leverage its increasingly dominant position in syria to amass power and influence throughout the middle east and beyond. are you worried about the repercussions? let me introduce myself. i am an american, a practicing doctor in the states. i have families, family members and close friends living in syria and i am here to tell the story of the people of finland and i believe the president played a significant role in protecting and saving the lives of millions of syrians and i
president s name but he worries about what s happening in syria and this piece in the washington post says, unless halted our retreat will invite the brutal assad regime in syria and its iran yack backers to extend their influence and we re ignoring russia s efforts to use its position to amass power and implement it throughout the middle east. are you worried about the repercussions of the decisions made in the last couple of weeks, doctor? let me introduce myself first. i m an american of syrian origin. i m a practicing doctor here in the states. i have families, family members and close friend who is are still living in syria and i am here specifically today to tell the story of the people of and i believe, i believe that the president played a significant role in protecting and saving the lives of millions of syrians in adlib, and i want
you had the sense you were treated as not quite american. you re not quite as american as everyone else. when you re a child, you begin to internalize that. and trust me, we had it good by comparison. yeah. our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time. our mother was a teacher. he is a serviceman. he volunteered. and he was in the air force. and he just tells the story about coming up to milwaukee and stopping in a restaurant. and when he came back out to the car with our mom you were a baby and he was just accosted by this gang of young white kids. he thought if he didn t have you in his arms as a baby that they would have beaten him and beaten my mother. he talks about when he got a house, on the phone it was all good. then go check on the house and what? who s moving in here? and he would talk often that he would end up on this board like i m the first black man on this
love, but do it from milwaukee. i have a little bit of talent, i better get out of here. what if we were to embrace that talent instead of systematically suppressing it? we grew up in a suburb of milwaukee. there were no black folks where we grew up. virtually none. even when we moved in, as few black people on that, we all lived on that block. we all lived on that block. that block was a black section? back in the day they call i had n-word row. you were treated as not quite as american as everyone else. when you are a child, you incident to internalize that. trust me, we had it good by comparison. our father was a practicing doctor here for a long time and mother was a teacher. he s a serviceman and