Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
A nearby Bluegrass Festival offered a tempting distraction for the harmonica playing senator but mr. Kane stayed out of sight. That debate coming up in farmville, virginia at longwood. Niversity our coverage begin 7 30 eastern tomorrow night with the debate about 00 eastern. Our team is there getting prepped and prepare. We are taking great photos and videos behind the scenes of the event. We will now show you tonights Vice President for preview on cspan. Announcer the Vice President ial debate happens tuesday, october 4 at Longwood University in farmville, virginia. Cspans live coverage starts at 7 30 p. M. Eastern. The next 2. 5 hours, we will take a look of the candidates, virginia senator tim kaine and indiana governor mike pence, beginning with some of the earliest appearances on cspan. First, we would hear from tim kaine on cspans washington journal in may of 1997. He was then serving as a member of the Richmond City council. Joined on theow program by republican rick white on a
His mother and fathers families were both from virginia. We claim him as a brother in virginia because of affection he held for the south, for southerners and virginians during his entire life even during the difficult war years and especially the days after the war. We must especially claim lincoln as a virginian because the project of his mature adult life was to pick up and rescue from the most virginia value that all men are created equal and work to continue the project that was authored by the other virginia, Thomas Jefferson 85 years before. That was the work of Abraham Lincolns life. [applause] sen. Kaine to be true to virginia values. It is hard to remember this, Abraham Lincoln learned that those words of the declaration of independence when he was a young man, go into fourth of july ceremonies with the declaration of independence read. You know what folks . After the declaration of independence was prepared by jefferson, when the constitution was written a decade later, ther