discrimination. but there is a lot of work to do. the government has acknowledged that it has set aside billions of dollars. in the millions but billions. tom tom that s thomas burrell president of the black farmers and according to the national review he has been a onep for n of racial grievances of the federal government dishing out billions of dollars, the payouts stem from a class action suit now known as pigford. the new york times ran a story about the pigford payments citing they have become a run away train driven by racial politics. pressure from influential members of congress and law firms that stand to gain more than 130 million in fees. rich, this is not a new story. it s not. it came to attention first when the late andrew breitbart was involved the conflict with shirley sherrod and andrew got his
0 that ask questions and a couple people did deal with that. there was some discussion about that. but nobody really focused on what kind of questions were asked and whether the president really has power or not power and how he is using it. and i mean, i m pretty critical of that. but i think the media could have used it they all talked about his defensiveness or they gave him a kiss-up. very few people did a good analysis of that. jon: there was also criticism of the president s wishy washy answers. there are some you know, he is the president at&t all. there is the week when the dam broke and everybody acknowledged what the reality is. second term a facility. ultimately one the reality does matter and the media has to ache knock it on some level. media has to get tired of one narrative and the narrative of barack obama the hero from the election had gotten a little shop warn and also the media a huge herd mentality. so once dana milbank and maureen dowd is saying it there is a
so i write about the fact that in the book i grew up with an image of a strong black man who just didn t happen to be in the house. the book is dreams from my father. booktv this weekend on c-span2. tanner colby presents his thoughts on the social, economic and political factors which have obstructed integration in america. mr. colby is in conversation with jessica moore, cure tore y all fellow at the american museum of diasporan arts. this is just under an hour. [applause] we thank everyone for coming, thank you for coming tonight. as she explained, [inaudible] for barack obama, and i started asking my friends in new york how many black people do you know, and two was the highest answer i got. so i thought that by going back and backtracking my my own life, neighborhoods i live in and figuring out why these things were really white 40 yearses after the civil rights movement, that might provide answers as to where we took a left turn after martin luther king died
i was going to read about all the black and white people living together in 2000 a great i thought about my resume. but there was too much back story to do and how they got there. starting from the beginning, which is where i went to high school. it is sort of the most defiantly white suburb. we had the confederate flag as our officials will buy. i have the confederate flag on my high school diploma. which my wife will not limit on the wall. for many reasons. i went back and i that was when the first places i women i was researching the book. the first thing i did when i went backwards, was to get on the bus. because the busing program was still in place there. i went to the principal and said would you let me ride the bus. i met this rather an incredible woman who not only drove the bus but was one of the for students to write it back in the 1970s. her story was a pretty amazing one. she was very generous and sweet and took me along for this ride. so there is a story of