Program guide. Welcome to the manhattan instance constitute on critical race their rhythm im Michael Hendrix and aisle here to welcome you and our host of the conversation, my colleague, jason riley. First, as a bit of introduction, please entered your questions through the program, our initial conversation and our panel, and well incorporate them into the discussion. And without further adieu, then,ll back jason riley. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, columnist at the wall street journal and a commentator at fox news. His next book is called maverick, a biography of Thomas Sewall available in may 2021. The rerecipient of the bradley prize and of journaling the journal in 1949 he was a senior editorial writer and a member of the Editorial Board in 2005 and speaks frequent my on abc, cnn, pbs, and npr. Jason is the author of several books including please stop helping us, and false white power in 20167 and also worked for usa today and buffalo news herb has ba in english and
at the time president-elect donald trump asked me to take on this position. he did because he knew my background in small business. i have been bankrupt, i have had my house auctioned off, my car repossessed in the driveway payment with my second child. i understand the regulatory environment and i understand taxes. that is why president trump wants to work so hard to make right. oneme give you this little about regulatory environments. regulation,0,000 of three to 6% of small businesses go out of business. usually less than 20 employees. we have got to do something, have proper regulatory environment. that is what president trump wants to do. making sure that we are providing our small businesses with the tools they need to start to grow and be successful. it is my privilege to be here today to say hello to so many of you. advocate. i have your back. we wants to hear from you because president trump believes in small businesses. he knows that you are the backbone of our econ
is not why i am quitting, but why i kept at it so long. why did you? thomas: why do they keep at it so long? there were a lot of things happening different from the way in most of the media. i enjoyed doing it, i enjoyed hearing back from people. i was sorry i never had a chance to reply to them all. i m just going to ask you why you put this in the column and you can expand on it if you would like. havewn family did not electricity or running water in my childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the south in those days. what you member about those days? remember a lot because i did not leave the south until i was a most nine years old. i spent a fair amount of time down there. most of those places, there was not a lot of hot running water. we had cold water. many other blacks in those days did not have, by the way. sort of saying where i came from. you moved to harlem. what was that like? thomas: i lived with the same family that had raised me in north carolina. so
sudden i am in politics. i think it started in 2003. i was running our family business and we were anticipating selling it and i actually assisted the former state assemblyman with his campaign but i also assisted his a fun of because i was running a newspaper selling advertising to anyone and everyone that i consulted because our typical customer was locally owned and operated businesses and many were being displaced and going out of business is by big-box and big chain stores. so i returned to politics and was looking for every avenue to raise our advertising revenue is what was going on and when the assemblyman won his racy of me if i would be as cheap as steph and i said have time to do that. i am legal counsel. at the time, my father had catastrophic health issues. he was in eight wheelchair living across the street. he was the supreme court justice working full-time. my mother had other health issues. i was caring for them, running our family business and raising my son
why i kept at it so long. why did you? thomas: why do they keep at it so long? there were a lot of things happening different from the way in most of the media. i enjoyed doing it, i enjoyed hearing back from people. i was sorry i never had a chance to reply to them all. i have i m just going to ask you why you put this in the column and you can expand on it if you would like. my own family did not have electricity or running water in my childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the south in those days. what you member about those days? i remember a lot because i did not leave the south until i was a most nine years old. i spent a fair amount of time down there. most of those places, there was not a lot of hot running water. we had cold water. many other blacks in those days did not have, by the way. it is sort of saying where i came from. you moved to harlem. what was that like? thomas: i lived with the same family that had raised me in north carolina. some me