[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
Common and i always liked him very much as a human being. So, i talked to the family and the archives or in process but they were let me willing to let me in, and i did that for a couple of years. I think the real surprise in terms of the archives is that he seemed to be very open man and had in fact vetted his archives quite considerably committing much of his correspondence and also anything that diluted to his personal life. I didnt expect that. That was the first for me and all of the biographies that ive done. We will start with his earlier life where you were able to get information from family and friends. So i wanted to ask about some of his formative political experience, starting first with his family life, growing up as the son of immigrants, russian jewish immigrants in brooklyn. Guest well, as i think i say in the book, he was in a sense born conscience because both of his parents had very little education, and his father worked extremely hard as a waiter come as a window
Now, what can someone do who finds themselves many thousands of dollars in debt and doesnt want to be there . Well, theres still more education. Now, on the one hand thats helped people get even more and more in debt and get in bad places, but if youre a sociology major 60,000 in debt and you decide you really dont want to be there, well, theres the Colorado School of minds for you, and go mines for you, and go get a degree in mineral engineering, get out there in north dakota where the average salary has increased by 40 because of the oil and natural gas boom out there. So i think its a tough question. I dont think we should be in the business of forgiving student loan debt. I think theres a personal responsibility element there that is the orthodoxy. I agree with david that we shouldnt be forgiving it as a matter of public policy. But unfortunately, we already are. We have Public Service loan forgiveness, we have teacher loan forgiveness, we have a myriad of loan forgiveness programs
Out of control. And i guess that is the point i want to make about the idea of the debt. They made a little better but we are also involved in a larger bet about our own future and that is an important point that i want to emphasize about this. One is that that we are all engaged and we dont know what is being to happen and there are a lot of risks and uncertainties associated. Host we are all gambling with our future and dont know whats going to happen. Guest we are gambling on the future of the planet. Host thank you. It was a wonderful read and i think that what and for anybody about what is happening on these issues. Guest it was great talking with you. Slavery is not to our history. Slavery interrupted our history. With that being said reveley roughly 6,000 years ago to make excellence provided on the african continent now called each of thousand years for the greeks played into the university system. Said the european and global domination of portuguese which show african and kin