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Professor ibram kendi how are you . I am well. How are you doing . Host have you moved to boston yet. Guest i have. Host good luck with that. [laughter] host how are you . Guest i am doing well. I am okay in columbus ohio. Host its good to hear thank you both so much for joining us for this conversation. Im excited to speak with both of you. Whenever i talk with both people together i look for points of connection and looking at the two of you are realize that both of you are in your thirties. Both of your mothers are named carol. [laughter] both of you talk a lot in your book about the role of personal transformation and that understanding you have achieved about yourself. You want to start by asking you if you feel understanding yourself is the first step to conquer all the isms of our society . I will start with you saeed jones. Guest yes. It is not static but ever evolving but to my own personal experience, my early years as a teenager in the suburbs of north texas, the years i was ....
I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for sometime. Artists maybe to believe, but one of the most seminal days of my life was november 22nd, 1963, one as an eight year old i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or any of my generation to remember where here she was, but it did seem to me like to change something. It develop for me a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were interested in captain cook and the final frontier. And i was interest in jfk and the new frontier. Through my career as a journalist, as a student before that, i had been looking as a washington correspondent for away as well for way into the kennedy. Story of course colin there, were a monumental biographies. There were heavy memoirs, there were academic studies, there were scarcely a part of jfks legacy that had not been dissected and inspected and examined. But i wanted to see ....
House, where President Trump added fresh fuel to the fire in the controversy over whether and when to send kids back to school. Earlier i spoke with dr. Yvonne maldonado. Thank you for joining us this morning. At his briefing last night, President Trump said hed feel comfortable sending his son and grandkids back to school because he said kids dont transmit the coronavirus very easily. He also said they dont catch it easily. That seems to conflict with some of the research that weve seen just this week. I want to get your thoughts on that. Well, i dont think we really understand exactly whats going to happen with children. It does look like they are less likely to get sick, and maybe to transmit, than older children, and certainly adults. But we do need to have them go back to school very carefully and make sure that theyre socially distanced, that the older kids wear masks ....
One of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. As an eightyearold, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something, and from he developed a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were andrested in captain kirk the new frontier and i was interested in jfk in the old frontier. Lookingdent, i had been , and as a washington correspondent as well, as a way into the kennedy story can story. There were studies, heavy amoirs, there was scarcely part of jfks legacy that had not been dissected and expected inspected and examined. I wondered if there was something new to say. Then i came upon, innocence, these two days in june. We are on the eve of the anniversary. What could i say that was new . When i thought about it, i said to myself, my goodness, two extraordinary speeches, one at in then university morning, one on civil rights in the eve ....