Hello I m Kim Chuck and it s and this is the conversation a program about women by women for everyone each week we celebrate the way women are living life on their own terms across the world we do this by pairing together 2 women with something in common and let s say you have a big event coming up a job interview or a date and you want to know how to get rid of a pimple urgently or you ve just listened to a new album and desperately want to hear what others think about it all one effective way of getting the lowdown is of course by going online specifically to places such as You Tube where you can find stuff out will give you own take on things and it s become a very popular with some new quits have to share especially given that all you need is a camera an internet connection and a point of view today on the share obese speaking to 2 floggers or video bloggers whose individual voices and styles of help them rack up thousands of followers my 1st guest is a Kenyan American who have lo
obsessed with race? they get obsessed with skin pigmentation. i just wish that everyone i realize we are all here together. there there is something called reverse discrimination. i didn t know what that was. do you think black people mess under stand things about you sometimes? yes. like what? that we all have struggles and we all are probably a lot more in common than it appears. do you think white people must understand black why peope sometimes? i think i don t think we should generalize it in terms of white people. i think it should just be about people. do you know who i am? i do not. i am watters and this is my world. nice. bill: he looked impressed. was it hard to get people to talk about that? it was harder to get right people to talk. the black people were easy. a lot of white guys just ran away. i didn t want to touch it. especially in martin luther king day. bill: national television. the reviews are in from the spin stops here shows in tulsa
in positions of power. stop profiling. i think it is education, not just in terms of going to the classrooms, and the way that we inform ourselves, think about the history, how we have gotten this far.msin you think that the government can do anything to improve race relations here in america? no. it s just an evolution. it just takes time. h you think things are getting better? i do. is there anything you would like the government to do for you? make sure they don t get rid of obamacare. i think it is a matter of taking initiative to improve themselves and not just expecting it to come to them, either. is there something you would like white people to know about black people? simply that we are not to be feared. everybody is the same. we are all brothers and sisters. n i care about everybody, whether you re black, white, asian, latina, doesn t matter. is there anything you want white people to know about you? you re not white, we are just people. we are n
This is a science hour from the B.B.C. World Service with me Roland piece later in the program we ll be sitting down with some chimps for some choice viewing what they re really interested in like humans is social complex so we kind of hear a little Charlie Chaplin version of The Jersey Shore for apes and as well as chimps will be meeting whales off the coast of Oregon who may have lessons about Human Fertilisation But let s launch off with this week it s been the Nobel Prizes in medicine chemistry and physics it really is my favorite time of the year where we get to talk about just about anything but actually am I putting too much emphasis on just one funny week in the year well I m joined by Phil bought science writer founds of all wisdom Phil and I are for playing it oh you know I mean it s always it s always fun it s always the great excitement and you know it s always fun to make predictions and to see them fall by the wayside as they almost inevitably do you know it s always the
superficial things. hang-outs on google. immigration reform was the was not a controversial issue within the republican party during the george w. bush years where you had vast they re not going to core issues about their view of government, of society, of the market, and i think that you see a great deal of desperation instead taking place. you look at what s happening in virginia and pennsylvania and michigan and the places where they re trying to change the rules in order to kind of hang on to some their presidential electoral hopes. alex, on this question of democracy, i was trying to think of this quote from bobby jindahl in this speech that he is going to give. he says we must reject the notion that the noegs that skin pigmentation dictates behavior. the first step in getting voters to like you is to demonstrate that you like them. that is the crystallizing issue for the republican party.