Welcome to the inaugural writers hour at James Madison university. We are glad you are here. I want to thank the provost, the first person that i post about in this series. The everyone at the communications further help promoting the event. The we wouldnt be here so thanks to you. We also wouldnt be without john grisham. He should have his own show. Before i met him i knew he was generous with his time and money and you cant go three days and i got to know him most would agree he was a gravedigger and never met someone that for their fame so blithely. Hes a regular person. But of course he is a famous writer. In one place that sold a quarter of a billion bucks and another place he sold 300 million so at some point you throw in the towel and say a boatload. This is academia there is no keeping it loose but here we are on stage in academia. Weve probably got john on the cool side of the mountain where he belongs and i hope he becomes a regular visitor. Please welcome our friend and bene
Constitution. You can hear more from robert byrd who served in the u. S. Senate for more than 50 years, this sunday at 5 00 eastern youre on American History tv on cspan3. At the annual Southern Historical association meeting, a group of professors discussed challenges and strategy for teaching the reconstruction era. They talk about sources and trying to find a balance between National History and local history in survey courses. [laughter] aaron good morning. My name is aaron dean, and i would like to welcome everybody to our panel this morning on teaching reconstruction. We are happy to have cspan here, which is not normally part of these panels. We will get going right on time. I will also explain first we will use this morning and then get out of the way. I will offer just a couple of to kind ofy remarks set things up, and then introduce our panelists, and then they will each talk for a short bit, we are hoping within the fiveminute range and i did not bring a cudgel, but every on
Pillow and welcome to crossfire things are considered im Peter Lavelle up until recently politics were about policy preferences and ways to implement them but is not the case today your political views are now what define you as a person and there is a moral dimension bias against those who are not politically correct is the last acceptable form of discrimination this is the end of politics. Crosslinking political intolerance im joined by my guest kevin chavez in washington hes managing part. Of the chavez group as well as former president of d. C. Young democrats also in washington we have crisper hes a political analyst and iraq war veteran also in raleigh we cross to ryan he is the national cochair and founder of students for trump card gentlemen crosslike rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok kevin im going to go to you 1st because youre on the odd man out i want to make that clear im going to make sure that you get equal time on this
Inauguration which i experience and trying can attest to this to so many young republicans in this country and hes done so much work mobilizing young republicans across the country on campuses in the College Environment look at whats happening in our campuses how vile and how hateful people are and a friend of mine who was punched in the face at berkeley and was assaulted for being a republican so you know i mean i think things have gotten a little bit a little bit out of control and i do think that not being able to hear that other side and have that sort of conceptual discussion which has got out of control is a problem you know im ryan and you have a lot of experience in this here i mean i guess i portray my age im the oldest one here but you know how being different points of view was good and people respected you didnt always like it but now youre demonized toward and youre considered evil and that comes mostly from one direction i would point out here that is a real problem with
When we call it discrimination i think that is probably not the right word because in what way is a stopping you from from living a certain quality of life its not like Racial Discrimination or gender based discrimination or Something Like that so i would use that term to describe the fact that people are so polarized that i have no question that dont you think kevins gotten worse how many liberals are work for it work for c. N. N. I mean thats the bias im talking about let me go to chris now in washington that is biased against people and that creates this polarization and to be fair on the other side there is a lot of conservatives that work for fox and lets be fair here go ahead chris. Thats thats true peter but i think fox has actually gotten a little more balanced with having liberal hosts and having a lot of liberals on the network with very strong different points of view but i think i mean i agree about the word were discrimination but lets not lose sight of the point how is it