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Host jason riley, author, columnist, contributed to the wall street journal, Fox News Contributor and among your books, please stop helping us how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed. I want to begin where your book concludes, quote, liberalism has succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Guest i believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually and they have been at it for some time. Unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting blacks is primarily victims, defined by their victimization first and foremost and the followup that we have a Government Program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood so it is a political strategy. Guest there have been a number of books about lending johnsons Great Society. Was a failure or success . Guest if you look at the track record of the program, the goals, the objective stated at the time you would have to say it was largely a failure particularly with
Hosting todays program she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the fellow in our education policy here at the heritage foundation. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and income earning families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsay. Thank you, andrew and everyone for being here today and watching online as well. We are excited to welcome vicki. She writes the federal miseducation of americas children and she argues that it is time to end, not mend, federal intervention in education. As she explains in her book the federal government left education alone for about a hundred years, recognizing that it was the purview of state and localities. But gradually, federal free strained gave away and by 1979, weasel the first cabinet level agency for education established with the verse of the u. S. Department of education and today, that agency holds 5,000 employees, manages over 150 federal Education Programs and has a discr