And thats how i sat down to read my book. Thats not what makes life difficult it is the belief that people are inferior its not true we are not inferior but keep moving through society to say that disabled people dont matter therefore dont make the service accessible and dont provide medical care. When i was younger i wasnt sure what to do. But over time i learned to advocate i started to demand inclusion and learned about the american with disabilities act which celebrated the 30th anniversary this year. The ada prohibits discrimination against people with disabilitie disabilities. Learned about it when i was in college in my book shares this process for i discover how it led to advocate with people with disabilities if we take away one message from th book is a conce the evil in some. And teaches ople to intify those that are able. I am an advocate so it back into my li and ask myself to help people advance opportunities or around the world. And then to interact with sexism or raci o
A war crimes trial at the hague for his alleged role during the 1999 kosovo conflict the u. K. Gets a new multibillion dollar rescue package to boost its economy as a land enters another pandemic lockdown. Well uncertainty remains 2 days after americans went to the polls to choose the next president only a handful of states remain unclear but they hold the key to the white house for either joe biden or president to donald trump the focus has shifted to the state of georgia where vote counting has been going through the night its an extremely close race in the traditionally republican state Donald Trumps initial lead has been steadily falling georgia is one of several states where republicans are filing legal challenges over the election. Let me just give you a look at the state of play joe biden has already flipped michigan and wisconsin donald trump narrowly won those 4 years ago the Democratic Candidates now has a projected total of 264 Electoral College votes trump is projected to w
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Lets pick up where we left off on wednesday. The main argument i was trying to make then focused on James Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. How washington functions. He takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each st
Test. Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Doug brinkley, if i could, what about criticism of Eleanor Roosevelt and throughout her 12 years as first lady . Were people critical of her . Weve kind of had a little bit of a love affair so far tonight. Of course, they were, because people didnt like fdr. A very polarizing president. He killed the opposition in 30 and 32 and i promise you eleanor was not an albatross. As i mentioned before, she was a huge asset. With that said, i think some thought her issue of pushing the labor unions and supporting the coal miners. If you were a coal owner, you would not have liked it. In the south, as i mentioned, the africanamerican issue was very controversial. In fact, theres one letter she wrote to an africanamerican person in chicago, the person wrote her because one of her columns, she called black people and this africanamerican rightly said how can you who is helping africanamericans use the word dark, and she sa