Particularly black americans who may be skeptical about you and your book and just explosive cover. I give them my backstory. I was born on the cotton plantation in Haywood County tennessee. My father was a sharecropper. Plow them you picking cotton. And he aspired he bought us out of the plantation. Of Haywood County, through the Insurance Industry and he was so thankful that god had given us some middleclass life that we started a Gospel Singing Group called the ellison family. We went around the whole south singing gospel music all around the south. This is how i got such an intimate knowledge of the black church. After that, i went to College University of memphis and after that i started working in a prison in South Carolina five years. I worked at kirkland correctional institution. And i saw the belly of the beast and i saw evil. I understood it. I was supposed to supervise. 127 hardcore felons every day. They were alphas. And i was there mostly sound by myself. So in order to su
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this is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and that s what i would hope we re doing in history. which is not necessarily creating i m not trying to create a new narrative. i m not trying to say if we do that now, we ll come to another narrative that we re all going to agree on. i guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because we re all going to create something that has silences in it. but to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether i m not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. yeah. [ applause ] my name is junior williams from newark, new jersey. the sum that is i think some of us make is that being bla
skulduggery. .he u.s. is a diverse nation this is one of the many things makes us great, despite the legacy of the genocide of the native people and slavery. the census bureau and not spike lee says five years and now, why children will be a minority. by 2049, white folks will be outnumbered by nonwhites. this is happening, people. here and now. it is time to start embracing. and no matter how one might wish it to be otherwise, we are not making america great again by going ,ack to eisenhower, jim crow and leave it to beaver. [applause] it!having now is the time to seize the day , take a of this unique moment in history, and build bridges amongst us. i am talking about gender, race, religion, and nations not walls and let us build bridges of love versus walls of hate. sidebar number one. , i am amongst some of the greatest minds in the world here at johns hopkins university. people who are a lot smarter ask, can somebody please educate me, me, somebody from the public of br
[applause] it is good to be at the mississippi delta. may be so much change. to talk about this book so hiding from police on this particular street and had even more memories of city police here and this is what much of the book was about of those strong people of creed would that does not include i tell the story and i want doing here but the green family the legendary family and laura who ran the sheriff in town exceptionally strong people and part of the southern movement is the people that protect us. i will get back to that thought. i am often asked with this particular book when you read the book you will see this is much more than a book about guns. i have been a working reporter for most of my life. i primarily has been a foreign affairs reporter. to have established national geographic. with the internet news service concern i recommend you could, that all africa is the only way to keep up during the day this is what is happening in nigeria and one of the things i