The heat beat the lakers arch rival the Boston Celtics in the conference finals and of course it would have been great to see the lakers play the celtics again. But its even better knowing matt damon spent the night crying into his my little pony pillow. Many fans in miami are fired up. This was the scene there on sunday night. Where the bars are open and they appear to have thrown caution to the wind. From the streets to the bars of winwood, the sounds of pots and pans are taking over the streets of the magic city tonight. Oh, my, it is the First Time Since 2014, by the way, that the heats are going to the final. And the fans are going to the hospital because none of them are wearing masks. You cant be a diehard fan if you live, can you . The last time the heat made it to the finals, they had a player named lebron james. This is lebrons tenth appearance in an nba final with three different teams and hes not done. If he wins at the lakers, he says next year he is going to sign with the
Host jason riley author, columnist, contributor to the wall street journal and manhattan institute. Among your books please stop helping us. I want to begin where your book concludes because they see the following liberalism convinces blacks to see themselves first and foremosts as victims. Guest i believe that is a big part of a political strate strategy. Theyve been at it for some time and unfortunately they have had a lot of success painting and as victims and then the followup is we have a Government Program or solution to help you overcome your victim so i think it is a political strategy. Guest thereve been books on Lyndon Johnson. Is it a failure or a success . Guest if you look at the programs and the goal the object is overstated at the time you would have to say that its largely a failure to to the extent we are told another debate i think that we of course move beyond a separate but equal but in your book you talkta abot the black colleges and pasted it could case of ronald
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Is the author of let them in, the case for the open border. Please stop helping us. And false black power . A critique of the national jason riley, author, columnist. Fox news contributor. And among your books, please stop helping us. I want to begin. You say liberalism has convinced black to see themselves first and foremost as victims. I believe that is a big part of a political strategy actually. And theyve been at it for some time. Theyve had a lot of success. Victims, primarily. Then the followup that has a Government Programs to help you overcome your victim had. There are a number of essays and books written by is a a failure or success . If you look at the track record of the program, look at the goals that the objectives for stated at the time. You have to say its largely a failure. Particularly with regard to the people that were targeted by many of these programs. Their lives have not significantly improved even though they were being told it would improve at the time. In yo
Just a few quick details before introduce myself. First, please take a moment to silent your mobile devices. Second, you will notice we have cspan recording tonight program. For information regarding todays broadcast please check out the replay section of our website. Also the first time ada missoni and program we extend a warm welcome. For any members, we thank you for your ongoing support. Without you the programs would not be possible. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome elizabeth kopp. Elizabeth is an Award Winning novelist and documented filmmaker, author of eight books including nonfiction and americas first lemon soldiers in the New York Times bestselling historical novel the hamilton affair. Her newest novel the command is available for sale after the program outside of the lecture hall. With that said, i know were alla in for a fascinating talk, without further ado i would like to please join me in welcoming elizabeth cox. [applause] thank you so much. I really honored to b