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The social divide they came out to Tahrir Square in the area surrounding to hear your square but they were expressing a real resolve these protesters committed to continue coming out day after day demonstrators determined to effect some kind of change they said that through their demonstrations they wanted to make sure they could help ensure build a Better Future pour it up and it up please when we arrived at to have your square earlier in the day we didnt really know what we would find there had been reports of deaths in basra protesters being killed in basra and protesters overnight being killed in baghdad when we arrived into heres where earlier in the day we found a real jubilant crowd a real festive atmosphere not just people discussing their political concerns that really people going out of their way to express their creativity we saw plays being enacted in the streets we saw musicians performing the National Anthem and singing for others theyre trying to boost the morale of tho
Officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but it was sort of the beginning of what we think of as modern america. And the end of what we think of as native american bought those thing were untrue. Why do you 1890 to by that dividing line. 1890 was the year of arguably the last conflict, Armed Conflict between native folks and the American Government. At the massacre another wind knee in south dakota where between 150 and 300 lakota men, women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, h
Women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, heading to the agency, and they were intercepted by the cavalry, who rounded them up and tried to disarm them, and unclear what happened next but the cavalry started shooting, opened fire with guns, and murdered about 150 people. The government was really nervous about what they were convince weed be an indian uprising because of the ghost dance and other things going on in the plains, but really they just murdered a bunch of people trying to find shel
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c