2027488002 for independents. We set aside our fourth line for Muslim Americans. We want to hear from you. 2027488003. You can also text your thoughts. Make comments and be a social. Edia from Time Magazine, the sheer lunacy of cuffing a kid over a homemade clock. Ahmed brought a clock he made to school using Circuit Board stock. One teacher thought it looked like a bomb. Whocalled the principle called the cops because you can never be too careful. The cops asked ahmed some , found him insufficiently forthcoming, cuffed him and took him out of the school because, you know, safety first. This would all come under the title of comic misunderstanding until we get to the part of the handcuffs. How does a skinny eighthgrader with no prior history of misbehavior and up in that terrifying situation . Why not call on local knowledge from the engineering teacher who reportedly had already seen the clock and deemed it cool . Ahmed was new to macarthur high school. Could officials find no friends
Barrier. But the stories of war. When safe at their effect here in korea line from school. John went to do so much for joining us. Well its been a Long Time Coming but the two koreas today reached an agreement on when to hold the next round of three unions for families separated by the korean war the pair suffered its third week of the very end if the go ahead as planned to be the first trains in mourning thirty years of punk funk he has a top story. After just four hours of discussions the teacher me and agreed on wednesday to resume the loves us and gave me a chance for families separated by the korean war. The koreas have agreed to hold a round of family reunions from february twenty oh two the twenty fifth. At about two mm gun. A divided family members selected for last years canceled the unions will take part with one hundred South Koreans meeting with their loved ones in the first round and another one hundred North Koreans taking part in the second round. A team of south korean
President obama said in a cbs interview that russia must move its troops that on the ukrainian border. The president also warned russia not to revert at to cold war practices. Inwe have no interest circling russia. We have no interest in ukraine beyond a leading the ukrainian people make their own decisions about their own lives. And it is true that we reject the notion that there is a along theinfluence russian border that then justifies russia invading other countries. At this afternoon, the Un Security Council is planning to hold a secret meeting to discuss the crisis. Russia has rejected a yuan resolution affirming the territorial integrity of ukraine. Mood among a strong the vast majority of russians that the United States is very happy to facilitate russia declined, Energy Diversification away from russia and even Shock Therapy which i do not necessarily agree with. But that is their perception. And they are sitting on red line which they take much seriously than we do, on ukrain
Because i think we have that common ground. I think when you say to someone the past doesnt matter you know, it doesnt matter. Of course it does. In your case, it matters that your father went to a substandard school you know, and it matters that his father before him barely went to scho school. Whereas my father has a college education, my grandfather had an engineering degree. His father before him had an engineering degree. Where we are today has a lot to do with where we start. Host i agree. Guest and thats something that i think most white americans today are not willing to acknowledge. So that is one of the purposes of the book and thats the conversation i want us to have is look at the history, look at the sum total of experience. Before you start judging about what policy is good and what policy is bad, lets take a look at the totality of the run up to where we got to this point. Host so, are you hopeful about Race Relations . Guest i am, i am. In the epilogue of my book i talk
Wearing che guevara tshirts when i was in college my grandma sent me an antiche guevara tshirt that i proudly wore to my latin american studies course. [applause] you can imagine how well that went over. Specifically i were particularly when they would start on the same day. I knew that was in the lesson plan so it was great. I want to start off by thanking Americas Foundation for having me here today. When they say i was inspired to do what im doing what im doing now as a result of the conference in 2008 its absolutely true. Young Americas Foundation does change lives of students especially when they are constantly in a hostile environment on their College Campuses and what young Americas Foundation foundation provides a source tools and mentorship is extremely important. I can tell you the work they do really has an impact. Living in washington d. C. Now and seeing all the graduates of young Americas Foundations programs working and policy positions or media really making a differenc