Before i ask a question, i want to show you a video. I mustve had six or seven biographies written about me. Exciting upnot that until i was president. Have these amazing experiences. I did not really accomplish all that much when i was in high school or in college. Folks think around and they are looking for stuff. Then they try to dramatize things that are kind of routine. There is a part of you that says why would you care about this, it is not that interesting. How right is he. Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your biography is a major part of american history. Had a mucha actually more interesting, much more richly varied earlier life then we have really to a large extent known up until now. People are aware he grew up in hawaii. But the really transformative period of baracks life in his mid20s came when he was living in chicago for the first time, 1985 to 1988, working as a Community Organizer on the far south side, his first immersion in an
Thank you. My name is mary beth wise and i work for the library of Congress National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped. We administer audio and braille books to individuals throughout the country as a u. S. Citizen living abroad. I am very proud to introduce Sheila Miyoshi yager who earned her phd in anthropology from the university of chicago. She is an associate professor and director east Asian Studies at oberlin college. She has written extensively on modern content for a korean politics and history and is the author of several books on korea and east asia, including the politics of identity, history, nationalism and the prospect for peace in postcold war east asia. Narratives in nation building an efficient, a genealogy of patriotism ruptured histories, war or the post cold war in asia. Her new book, brother at war the unending conflict in korea is the military, political and cultural history of the war seen as spamming in 1945 to the present and its Global
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
But a lot of times there are these moments where the racialization of the system, the bias, the racism of the system becomes more apparent than others. And what happens then is not so much that all of a sudden theres this plague of insanity in the black male population, its that the frames around illnesses, the way we dune define illnesses, change in ways that have some things to do with biology, but other things to do with old ticks. The reason people started seeing black men as crazy is because they were afraid of them. They were in the streets protesting and all in this tough, and this language of insanity became a way of quite literally ip cars rating black men but not having to take seriously the threat they were posing to the white political order that in a way it was a very political to get back to alondras quote it was health being politicized in the name of maintaining the status quo. So part of what i think were saying is that the its important to get treatment, to get help,
Judgment that i would not be responsibly carrying out my oversight powers if i did not press intelligence issues to clarify what the nsa director said repeatedly about the data collection. So i decided that it was necessary to put the question to the director of National Intelligence and i have my staff send the actual questions a day in advance so that the director would be prepared to answer. The director said the answer is no, the nsa does not knowingly collect it on millions of americans. After the hearing, had my staff called the Directors Office on this matter and urge them to correct the record. Accordingly, the office decided to let this inaccurate statement stand. My office made it clear in my staff said clearly that this was wrong and unacceptable to leave the American People misled and we continue to warn the public about the problem of surveillance law over the following weeks with the june disclosures. Now, given after those disclosures, there has been an effort by officia