Up next on booktv after words with guest host Michael Meyers executive director of the new york civil rights coalition. This week jason sokol in his latest book all eyes are upon us. In that the historian argues that while the northeast enjoyed a reputation as a bastion for racial equality in reality blacks were relegated to living in ghettos and working menial jobs until Northern Leaders challenged citizens to practice what they were preaching. This program contains language that some may find offensive. Host jason its very difficult to decide where to begin with your book. We are going to make a teaser to the audience. We are going to get to the conflict in a clash between at brooks and joe biden. Thats a teaser. Lets begin where you you began and that is with some history. This is a history book but the precipice to brown v. Board of education and the springfield locale. Guest right. Well the sense of history, i do have an argument they are about the way that northern history operat
Where southerners have all around them the trappings of slavery and segregation and something to unload, a burden to unload. Worse people in the north, particularly white northerners dont think of their round paths are their own heritage in that way. In fact, they think of it as something to about two, something to aspire to. That is what i mean about the sense of history at the beginning and the first story that i start out with as you said is about springfield, massachusetts. That city is a small city in massachusetts about 150,000. In 1939, just as world war ii was starting, the later said that city and School Superintendents pioneer plan they said would abolish prejudice and abolish racism. From the School System and from the city of large. So they adopted the curriculum and these principles with the highminded goal of eradicating from young peoples minds racism. He came upon it on their own or did something push them to a . Well, they drew upon curriculum being developed by a bunc
[laughter] and it is an oh my. Moment and it must have been to maxwell because not only is electricity and magnetism things that can travel like waves but the wave is that the speed of light. And when you craft that you are overwhelmed with and a motion of amazement and how beautiful it all fits together because its not just symmetric. They are little bits of asymmetry that are necessary for the pieces to fit together that way. And its not just that maxwells equations are beautiful but you know what is the light that maxwells equations describe. Whoever said that the universe had to be so beautiful . Thats the part that i will never get enough of. Thank you everybody. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. Our next lecture is going to be on december 9 and its about earths orbit and earth orbit along with his sons around the galactic center. Its part of a we will be holding so we invite you december 9. Now im sure that you have further questions. Please hold those questions until
So its clear, because i thought that when i became an attorney we had all of the sudden hit this place where communism i was going to be interviewed like a champion for justice. I didnt know that is going to have to navigate sociological stuff and racial stuff and biases and that kind of stuff. And so thats why the book was written because its sort of like my swansong to being a criminal defense attorney and saying this is real. Its not something from our past when, you know, they killed emmett till. This is all going to make sense, i promise. They killed emmett till and, you know, then the civil rights workers, Cheney Goodman and schwartz. And we saw those horrific images and all those folk again before emmett till and game after the young men in philadelphia, mississippi, right . And when we get to 2012, 2011 and even before that that it really sunk into my consciousness when George Zimmerman was found not guilty. And really that was the impetus. Because i done the outline for the bo
Lets deal with reality. When we were working in the senate to pass a bill, we passed a bill here, the sensen brenner bill. They criminalized every priest, every teacher, every doctor. That was the response to the senate bill. So lets get it clear here. Every time we sat at the table and said, look, tell us what it is going to take, they refuse act. It is now 23 months into the year. And we have not seen any legislation taken from this commit tooet house floor that isnt taking 800,000 young and making them illegallies one again in the words mif colleagues. Not having met any of them, you want to say that, you didnt have a few people that had the privilege of meeting and working with so i cant go back 200 or 300 or 400 years when you discuss i can go back to november 4 of 19 the the. I will try to read a little bit of it. There has been widespread agreement that some deportations, unfair and resulted in unjustifiable hardship. If the facts substantiate the presentations that have been ma