I was taken aback by more than anything, the impact of your grandparents. Guest i wanted to talk more about my personal story, because in politics it is fashionable to create caricatures of every person involved in politics. Youve got people actually start to think that these people are what they read and i realized the media had to create a caricature as someone that got into this for selfish reasons and i wanted to present and thought liberalism was the right path for me. It begins with my grandparents that were staunch conservatives that raised me conservatives. What those lessons taught me about the way they view their circumstances today. Conservatives all the way and the reason is because the left has become against every value in latin america since the time. We have values and believe in family. Its an attack on the family and on the Nuclear Family and the way things have been traditionally and that they think can exist. I wanted to make sure they understood that its through ha
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
Any business, even if that business is outdoors. There is a looming question, will anyone enforce this . San joses police chief says he will not. Yeah, nbc bay area damian tr trujillo has more on the rules and enforcement. Reporter they had a News Conference this reiterate he will not enforce it. But it was called off at the last minute. His position has not changed. San jose will adopt stricter mask rules when someone is outside of their homes. Even at parks. It was a hot topic at the city council meeting. All along, the chief had a stance on the orders. He repeated it again on the tuesday meeting. Use force, give a citation in the end. We now how that conversation will turn and that is a difficult position to put any officers in. They had rescheduled a News Conference today but it was called off without explanation. Today, we asked the board of supervisors about it. I dont want to put any words in chief garcias mouth. But i think what he is saying, this is true. We really want to use
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Us. Im can why im palmore Governor Newsome today outlined a 4 phase process to returning from the stay at home order adding that the first steps are just weeks away. This as coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed a milestone today, the 1 million mark on april the 10th there were 500,000 cases that number has doubled in the past 18 days across the nation. The virus has also killed more than 58,000 people across the country thousands more americans are projected to die because some states are starting to reopen some think too early. A new model project 74,000 americans will lose their lives to the virus by august. That projection is by the university of washington and it shows an increase in deaths because people in some states are going out again and spreading the virus. Thats also causing longer peaks of the virus deaths in some states. Last week this model projected 67,000 deaths so the project a death toll has gone up by 7,000 here in california there are more than 46,000 c