Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Every week Nicholas Kristof deals into the issues of poverty, conflicts, the rights of women and children in this country and abroad. How to affect positive change in the world. Its cowritten with his wife sheryl dunn. Good to have you on the program, sir. Good to be on. I want to jump spinto the bo in a second. Recently, you did a couple columns that got the attention of the nation. Your columns tend to do that. These two were about what happens and white folk dont get it. About rational issues in this country. Why did you decide to write that . Tell me more about the response you received. Well, opportunity gaps in this country. I think that there are an awful lot of people in this country who just dont want to talk about anything involving race and who dont want to address some of those gaps because they see them as having racial overtones. I wrote initially about unconscious bias and the way, often the problem is n
Its all gotten a lot of attention. Most of it negative. Almost all of it from democrats. But its still attention. And it still hasnt inspired much, or any, comment from members of the president s own party. Boris sanchez is at the white house with the latest for us. Boris, are you hearing anything from the gop, positive or negative . Reporter not much yet, ana. One official in the Trump Campaign tweeted out suggesting perhaps the president didnt actually mean they should go back to their countriesy ies ev though its in black and white. His intent is clear. Others, even frequent critics of the president in the past, have remained largely silent. No real comment from senator rand paul or Lindsey Graham or ted cruz, the list goes on. One former republican, though, is being highly critical of the president and thatsamash. Remember after the release of the Mueller Report he called for the president s impeachment and soon after he left the Republican Party partly because of the reception tha
didn t have to worry about having a big budget to shoot on film and processed film. that allowed people to tell their own stories. i mentioned st eed spike lee. the late, great john singleton and julie dash, the first female black filmmaker to have a movie with a film called daughters of the dust and a new queer cinema, sheryl dunn a film i love called the watermelon woman showing an interracial lesbian relationship by a black filmmaker. the 90s allowed filmmakers to do this. do you have a favorite from the 90s? so many. because i have a tattoo with mrs. wallace on my ankle, pulp fiction. saw it as a teenager it broke my brain showing thee films didn t have to follow a narrative. you could mix things up and still be compelling. i love the aesthetic and sound track, too, ana.