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It was a really busy week. So lets get right to it, some of the conversations you might have missed. Billionaire mark cuban, a Kamala Harris supporter, appeared on a Cnbc Squad Box and shared his thoughts on the Vice President s vision for the economy. Lets take a listen. How much more do you think the public knows now, and how much more do you think the public should know . Obviously, she is talking more, giving speeches, she was very clear about tariffs right there and shes got 40 days to communicate about other things. Think of this as a business and she is the ceo. She went from lack of favorability, lack of awareness, and way behind Donald Trump, to here we are, 50 days later from where she started, she is oh worst tide, people on her economic policy, she was by trump 20 , now she is behind 11 . She is making progress. If she just continues along the trend, the trend is h ....
All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Were at the point in the semester we have been looking at the long history of africanamericans since the civil war. Weve looked at the long struggle for what historian Hasan Jeffries called freedom rights, right . Weve been looking at this quest for economic, social, and political selfdetermination, for educational access and equity. And were looking at this long quest for the full realization of freedom and citizenship. And so were getting to the point in the semester where were talking about the Civil Rights Movement. Weve been looking at that for a couple of sessions now. And the interesting thing about teaching the Civil Rights Movement is that its perhaps the era that most americans think they know the most about, right . Weve talked a little bit about this, a ....
1 15. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. Like i said. Thats what you read all of your sources for, except the payne article which gave you a larger focus. To do that. We are going to go back to our discussion of origin points, right . Our favorite slide which you are going to be so sick of, right, representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context, but also troubling the idea of them as arge points. Last week, we discussed brown versus board of education. We discussed the decision, response, the impact, but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are to the going do that today. Then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, right . And the lynching of emmett till in augus ....
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 53, the nays are 38. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered madeland upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Paul mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for kentucky. Mr. Paul i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Paul mr. President , i rise to ask expedited passage of h. R. 35, the emmett till antilynching act, as amended. I seek to amend this legislation not because ive i take it or i take lynching lightly but because i take it seriously. And this legislation does not. Lynching is a tool of terror that claimed the lives of nearly 5,000 americans betwe ....
Going to go back for discussion of origin points, our favorites light which you are going to be so sick of representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement and we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, the lynching of emmett till in august of 1955. We used a mix of secondary and primary sources to consider how ideologies of race, gender and justice impacted that case and impacted the live experience of the people in that case. I want to take a moment to pull out and say that t ....