Married someone she shouldnt have, but in her mind she felt this man she would never be cheated on. She struck in her mind a devils bargain. She was deeply in love with george, but scraired to cross the line and marry him. The way she did it was she said, well, at least, this means i will never be cheated on. She married one of the most famous ladys men of harlem, and he was cheating on her within months, if not week, and that continued throughout her life. Her daughter was killed in vietnam, and two years later, josephine hung herself in their apartment while george was reading in the living room, and many of the women in this book did come to sad ends. Do you have a piece to read to us about josephine . Yes, i do. With peoples permission. Okay, one microphone is enough. I think the selection displays how in so many ways her marriage was based on an idea, not a reality. Their ideas and fantasies about each other consumed realities of who they were, and that built their faulty relation
Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim it. But the larger problem is if you dont have security, it doesnt matter how much people like you. Theyre not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. Theyre not suicidal. Theyre not going commit suicide because they love a Water Treatment plant. So you have to have basic security. And to establish basic security. You have to have men with guns on the street 247. Its the es
Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
In 1830, and he was appointed as a territorial secretary at 19, which is a record probably that will never be broken. Another record that certainly will never be broken was 1835 when at age 24, he was elected the first states governor. And in time the people of michigan and the people of detroit came to trust him as, even though a young person, a very skilled and dedicated leader. Well, mason was regarded first of all by the people in his own territory as a bit of an interloper, just coming in from kentucky. When the logical thing for jackson to do what it into a point in michigan person, a detroit politician for the number two position in the territory. But because mason had made such an impression on jackson himself, they had met and jackson thought this young man had a lot of confidence in itself and a vision, so that i will appoint him. The strip of land that was dispute between michigan and ohio actually dated back to the northwest ordinance when that ordinance determined that the
We began our special look with local author don faber and learn about the youngest governor in michigans history. Ann arbor michigan. We visited the area with the help of our local cable partner comcast to bring you some of the citys rich literary culture and history. Former Ann Arbor News editor said down with us to discuss his book a boy governor. The youngest chief executive in any state history. A very young age, appointed territorial secretary at 19 which is a record that will probably never be broken. Another record was in 1835. And in time people in michigan and the people of detroit came to trust them even though a young person, very skilled and dedicated leader. Regarded first of all as by the people in his own territory as a bit of coming in from kentucky. The logical thing for him to do would have been to appoint a michigan person. Because mason had made such an impression on jackson himself, they had met. Jackson of this cement has a lot of confidence and vision. I will app