No. Remember, we still have housing segregation. It was rigid and state enforced. So our communities were mixed communities, down the street. Where the kids with no shoes that our parents would make sure that what little we had were shared. No matter what your socioeconomic status was. And we were between two public parks. Two Public Housing units. And so, i guess when you were able to move out of the housing unit and my parents were pleased that we never had to live in a housing unit that we did live in a fourstory walkup. Before we moved to where we lived. And those who were able to get into the community were those who were able to get a plot of land and two were able to build a house. Even when that happened, you were still in an all Africanamerican Community with people who were not economically self sufficient and you had friends in the housing unit. So you understood and you interacted with them at school. You are all there together. And i think it made a difference, in terms of
The real problem isnt the government but the corporate forces. If we can get them where the Founding Fathers thought, which is out of elections and politics you want to go way took to your beginnings. Your dad went to jail. He was a diplomat in laos and thailand. Tell me about your upbringing and the process of living through the experiences you lived through you developed these ideas. Growing up in Foreign Service i saw two things, we were always in dangerous places. Growing up, you cannot go to the hospital if you are sick, or go to the movies, if somebody got bit by a dog you had to go through the rabies series because it was probably rabid. People didnt talk about it as much as we do now. Then i saw in all these different countries, although my father liked to say we were a big player and every once in a while they had to push back. Behind that was respect for and admiration and confidence in america that created, i think, a beacon for many, many people and many countries around th
The real problem isnt the government but the corporate forces. If we can get them where the Founding Fathers thought, which is out of elections and politics you want to go way took to your beginnings. Your dad went to jail. He was a diplomat in laos and thailand. Tell me about your upbringing and the process of living through the experiences you lived through you developed these ideas. Growing up in Foreign Service i saw two things, we were always in dangerous places. Growing up, you cannot go to the hospital if you are sick, or go to the movies, if somebody got bit by a dog you had to go through the rabies series because it was probably rabid. People didnt talk about it as much as we do now. Then i saw in all these different countries, although my father liked to say we were a big player and every once in a while they had to push back. Behind that was respect for and admiration and confidence in america that created, i think, a beacon for many, many people and many countries around th
People could harvest their own salt and there was a kind of doityourself to it, but its like purple and yellow and [inaudible] my friend that wears a kind of clerical somebody made her a hat anhalf and it was all some f like catwoman. [applause] [inaudible] thank you so much for coming out. [applause] [inaudible conversations] senator Sheldon Whitehouse offers his thoughts on how the government is impacted by corporate money into special Interest Groups in his book captured the corporate infiltration of american democracy. He is interviewehes interviewew york times investigative reporter, eric lilpton. Host i want to start by asking why did you write this book, simple question. Guest the simple answer is i was really getting discouraged all the criticism and antagonism, suspicion and frustration about the federal government which generations of americans have fought and bled to protect and preserve when the real problem i think is not the government, but its infiltration by corporate f
Neutrality issue, something that the ftc had been involved in. How has your work changed, how pressure goal changed since the fcc decided on Net Neutrality . I can tell youre a too obvious if you say the Net Neutrality just been semisettled because and theres still more to go in that story. But the issue isnt, she mentioned this, the common carrier exemption. So now that the fcc has reclassified Broadband Internet service as a title ii Service Companies common carrier service. So it creates a hurdle for the ftc to bring some of our traditional Consumer Protection enforcement in this space. A hurdle toward antitrust authority that doesnt run into the problem. So i am personally very concerned that we may not be able to continue to protect consumers as well online because of the reclassification. Commissioner mcsweeny come to you should and shouldnt . I. T. This is an era of long term bipartisan agreement at the ftc. We really give you the commentary exemption as an anachronism. When it