American history. And its really a worrisome thing that so Many Americans dont know American History and are swept up by this mans rhetoric. Its a commentary on our education and thats why its so vitally important that we know our history and particularly the more shameful parts of American History. Because we learn more, i think, from those chapters where our democracy faltered than the glorious chapters that were exposed to all of the time. So people like donald trump need to know our history. The mayor of roanoke has also expressed the same kind of comment and i extended an invitation to him and i talked to him over the telephone as well. You did . Hes a charming southern gentleman. [ laughter ] and he hasnt responded to invitation yet. But he extended to me, and he has a commission, Human Rights Commission or Something Like that, that extended an invitation to me to come and speak there. And so i am serving as an exam. For the mayor of roanoke. I have accepted that invitation and w
Although you probably know a fair amount of the plot already. Your own allegiance is based in part on your experiences and inspired by them. I should say my book is, too. I read your bike your autobiography as the start of my research. Byhaps you like to start setting a bit of the Historical Context for the audience. The detention of japaneseamericans is not covered in our schools as well as it should be, it is not a subject that is as wellknown as it should be, because there is so much to learn from it. Perhaps you can start by telling us about the historical background before we go on to your own personal experiences. George i know the power of stereotypes. There is a long history of the stereotype depiction of asians and asianamericans in the media in the United States. The set the backdrop for bombing of pearl harbor to trigger this hysteria. We happened to look like the people that bombed pearl harbor. By of the stereotype images the media fed into that hysteria. There was also ra
Four ofhickenlooper the top 10 four of the top six ski results in the world are in colorado. Who lives in colorado . What does the average call a lot on colorado and does coloradoan look like . Is one of the fastestgrowing areas, especially among millennials. Bands,f great onerepublic, the fray, the lumineers they are all denver, colorado bands. What happened is we have sort of become this younger population always moving here. The typical coddle out ofan is typical coloradoan someone who is if not young, someone who is young at heart. A lot of entrepreneurs have been starting businesses here, but they come from everywhere, all flavors and all sizes. That affecting the Political Climate in colorado . Gov. Hickenlooper when you have that many young people moving we legalized Recreational Marijuana, for one thing. People say millennials on moving here because we legalized marijuana. Thats ridiculous. They were moving here for seven years before we legalized marijuana. They are the reason
Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. This weekend, cspan is visiting denver to take a look at the citys history. Up next, a visit to the Colorado State capital. Derrick everett and Lance Shepard will be our guides. The Colorado State capitol was built between 1886 and 1901, took 15 years to complete the capitol. Construction started ten years after colorado joined the union in 1976, which is why were called the centennial state. It took 15 years to built on a side donated by a local businessman named harry brown and he was not an altruist, donated ten acres of land in the middle of his property. It actually took almost 20 years and two trips to the United States Supreme Court to resolve who owned this property and in large part in large part becaus the state didnt build on it for a long time. So he sued twice and it made it to the u. S. Capitol building in washington, d. C. For two buildings be
Shot, itainly a long think there are republicans out there may be including tom cole who are hoping for this to end up in a contested convention with paul ryan is the dark horse nominee. Prospects arethe as good as he is seen them in as many years in politics. He suggested donald trump does not have the requisite number of delegates, anything could happen. Host it will be interesting to watch over the next couple of months. Thank you for being our guest this week. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930s. Thats not until the 1930s they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. Andting in the 19 30s 1940s, you had an almost complete replacement of horses as the work animals on farms. I read that in the decade after world war ii, we had S