A New Documentary Seriesfrom Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONGto Air February 16 and 17, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. Two-part series reveals the bro
14 December 2020 - Wits University
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they d like to highlight for black history month. you wanted to talk about henry lewis gates. so, mika, 45 years ago, i was a graduate student at cambridge. one of my klosest friends was a young scholar, skip gates, we called him. he is gone on literally to make mi history. to change the way we think about ancestry and african-american eck appearan experience in america. he s been head of african-american studies at harvard for many years. he s created a tv show and other ways to look at our dna and it tells us we come from. i remember 45 years ago, a brilliant young man with all these dreams about our country, about finding his place and that of other african-americans in it. so black history month, i want to salute my friend, skip gates.
i m just listening to jeffrey talk about what s at the core of how the justice department works and the sensibility about not getting involved. do you guys remember back at the beginning of the obama administration when president obama weighed in on an arrest of skip gates, a harvard professor and police officer and they needed to have a beer summit at the white house because the president got involved in something that perhaps he should have stayed out of. outrage. it was like unbelievable. it was world coverage. and president trump constantly is inserting himself into what had been for all presidents this notion of some independent distance from justice working its will. i mean, jeffrey, just to remind people, just so they know what we re talking about, so chris collins indictment highlights evidence that he was doing insider trading, including what we re talking about at that white house picnic and then duncan hunter, there s all sorts
than falsely complaining about the election results. all talk, talk, talk, no action or results. sad. personal insults against john lewis are not going to hurt john lewis reputation or standing and the work he s done for many, many year, and by the way, maybe the president should visit atlanta, georgia a thriving new city which just elected a woman mayor a few days ago and not a city that s falling apart. i would like president trump to sit down with distinguished scholars like skip gates and michael eric dyson, sylvia silas and sincerely educate himself on the contributions that african-americans have made to the american nation and to the american society. i think if he did that, if he did that, sincerely educated himself, then then then it would send a most important signal he s working to better understand. his policies and his rhetoric