to explode the us is the land of supposedly attempts here everything s a bit larger than life. even the landscape with its wide open spaces and seemingly endless horizons but is america still the land of our dreams so i ll stop with the american dream the american dream is the german during the american dream is the zambian dream the american dream is the icelandic dream which is to try to provide for your children to have at least as good if not a better life than you and to do the harm in the world that s what the american dream is. but it s the arcelor in the current it s the publisher. richard ford is one of the great american storytellers a master at observing the world around him is novels are populated by characters that have become part of bald literature and when it comes to his homeland ford likes to tell it like it is dispelling the myths and legends. everywhere he goes people come out in droves richard ford s books have won him millions of fans around the globe ma
i was thinking about how much time i had and i thought, what you say to this room at this time, given all that is going on. a few days ago i recall i received a request for an interview from nbc. there was recently a study titled, the effective access to same-sex marriage on health. the premise was that individuals who were able to access and chose to marry in same-sex relationships were shown to have improved their health. so i, as a woman in a same-sex relationship, wanted to comment on my outcomes. my first was, did i get these michelle obama arms, because i married my wife west and mark i also blame my marriage on my deteriorating eyesight, because i can only see the first two rows of you. but sarcasm aside, i declined the interview. to give you some context like, the interviews to me highlight the advocacy. there are plenty of studies that show being married increases lifespan and overall health for heterosexual couples, but it is not because they are in heterosexual r
who were able to access and chose to marry in same-sex relationships were shown to have improved their health. so i, as a woman in a same-sex relationship, wanted to comment on my outcomes. my first was, did i get these michelle obama arms, because i married my wife west and mark i also blame my marriage on my deteriorating eyesight, because i can only see the first two rows of you. but sarcasm aside, i declined the interview. to give you some context like, the interviews to me highlight the advocacy. there are plenty of studies that show being married increases lifespan and overall health for heterosexual couples, but it is not because they are in heterosexual relationships. it is because they are married and purported and afforded protections that are not afforded to unmarried people. so to me, it doesn t show anything, unless you start with the assumption that [null] people are so different. where did this notion come from? i think the movement raised more awareness. it
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for the naacp legal defense fund. the organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. and so i want to give a little bit of hello? i want to give sorry. i want to give a little bit of background about myself. i am i ve been with the legal defense fund since march of this year. but worked in the obama administration and on the hill for quite some time. but this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. i am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. which i m sure all of you are familiar with. my father, dr. norwood russo was the first black school sup superintendent in selma, alabama [ applause ] thank you. in 1987. when he arrived, selma was a very integrated school system. the selma city schools were incredibly integrated. they had, though, what is called in-school segregation. they had a tracking system where the majority of african-american students w