Succeed, and false black power . A critique of black civil rights leaders. Host jason riley, author, columnist, contributed to the wall street journal and manhattan institute, a foxs contributor and among your books please stop helping us. You say the following,g liberalism has also succeeded tragically in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Guest yes. I believe that is a big part of political strategy. They have been at it for some time and, unfortunately, theyve had a lot of success in painting blacks as primarily victims, as defined by their victimization first and foremost and then the followup is that weic have a Government Program or government solution to help you overcome your victimhood. I think its a logical strategy. Host your book writes about this. Theres been a number of essays and books on Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Was it a failure or a success . Guest i think if you look at the actual track record of the programs, if you look a
Later you can go to our page, i think, and we will upload it on youtube, is that correct . Again, i am sharon, founding director of the institute of Public Policies and history which is housed here at the university of the district of columbia. We will launch in january of last year by mayor bowser and president ronald mason. We have sort of the same focus as do other institute in politics except for a very strong focus as well on the history of this city and by so doing the history of this country because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation and for those of you who saw the musical, hamilton, there is a song in it that says in the room where it happened and we are what happened. Washington dc. While we have topics that are contemporary interests we always try to grill down on that topic to talk about if its the historical origins and that certainly is true for the compelling topic of tonight. We will talk this evening about the a
Those of you who want to find it later you can go to our page, i think, and we will upload it on youtube, is that correct . Again, i am sharon, founding director of the institute of Public Policies and history which is housed here at the university of the district of columbia. We will launch in january of last year by mayor bowser and president ronald mason. We have sort of the same focus as do other institute in politics except for a very strong focus as well on the history of this city and by so doing the history of this country because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation and for those of you who saw the musical, hamilton, there is a song in it that says in the room where it happened and we are what happened. Washington dc. While we have topics that are contemporary interests we always try to grill down on that topic to talk about if its the historical origins and that certainly is true for the compelling topic of tonight. We w
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