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but the other big controversy was 1972 when she was working as a delegate for shirley chisholm and she talked about she wrote a press release in which she told everybody that they were going to have a traveling watermelon feast in harlem and this leaked to the media and of course it was a disaster because it's terrible she would say that. so those are two really big horrifying things that she did. >> how did you get involved in writing this book? >> it was a commission. they yelled at me to do it but that is a little bit of how i got involved in it was on the 50th anniversary of the feminine mystique i wrote an article for the chronicle of higher education which is a newspaper for scholars and the article was about, because i had never read the feminine mystique as a student and so i read it for the first time then and at the time there were a number of books coming out. one of them was the end of man and then there was another by naomi wolf and these books t i read and felt they took from betty's ideas were refuted to theideas that without ever mentioning betty's name. then i read the
but the other big controversy was 1972 when she was working as a delegate for shirley chisholm and she talked about she wrote a press release in which she told everybody that they were going to have a traveling watermelon feast in harlem and this leaked to the media and of course it was a disaster because it's terrible she would say that. so those are two really big horrifying things that she did. >> how did you get involved in writing this book? >> it was a commission. they yelled...
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chisholm and she she talked about she she wrote a press release in which she told everybody that that they were going to have a traveling watermelon feast in harlem. okay. and this list leaked to the media and, of course, it was a disaster because it's you know, it's terrible that she would say that. so those are two really big horrify things that she did that affect those. those are pretty big and pretty horrifying. yeah. and how did you get involved in writing this book? it was a commission. they asked me, yeah, yeah yale asked me to do it, but that's a little glib really. what? how i got involved in it was on the on the 50th anniversary of the feminine, i wrote an article for the chronicle of higher education is a newspaper for scholars and the article was about i actually had never read the feminine mystique as a as a student and so i read it for the first time. then. and at the time there were a number of coming out that, you know, like one of them was the end of men by rosen. and then there was another by naomi wolf. and these i read these books. i felt that those books took fro
chisholm and she she talked about she she wrote a press release in which she told everybody that that they were going to have a traveling watermelon feast in harlem. okay. and this list leaked to the media and, of course, it was a disaster because it's you know, it's terrible that she would say that. so those are two really big horrify things that she did that affect those. those are pretty big and pretty horrifying. yeah. and how did you get involved in writing this book? it was a commission....
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heroes like marcus garvey, adam played powell, kristen sutton and shirley chisholm. who fought every single step of the way to stand up for equality where nothing was given. not just in new york. but across this country, in the world. the issue of reparations is just as relevant today as it ones when i was a teenager. going to reparation rallies with queen mother -- and later in life, working with people like doctor ronna daniels and bishop -- back then it was not unpopular thing to talk about. and people were marginalized for even raising the issue. black americans are still dealing with racial injustice today. mass incarceration. health disparities. and wealth inequality. as blacks are making 70 cents to every dollar way to make. in order to heal, we must acknowledge the hurt and damage that was done. and the effects of the past that are felt today. that's what boston mayor rachel wounded recently. when she issued a formal apology to two black men who were wrongfully accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman. which deepened racial divisions in the city. those men h
heroes like marcus garvey, adam played powell, kristen sutton and shirley chisholm. who fought every single step of the way to stand up for equality where nothing was given. not just in new york. but across this country, in the world. the issue of reparations is just as relevant today as it ones when i was a teenager. going to reparation rallies with queen mother -- and later in life, working with people like doctor ronna daniels and bishop -- back then it was not unpopular thing to talk about....
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he said he was the first -- it is going back to shirley chisholm and jesse jackson.the first african-american. these are joe biden's words. to be bright and articulate and good-looking and clean. those are not code words. ask any african-american what those words mean to them, that characterization. in defending it, he was called out immediately and said his mother used to talk about being clean as a whistle. that shows biden's character. he did not own up to it, i am from a former generation. we use words like that. yet the media does not bring things up. those things are swept under the rug. how he gets his support of people, that is overly racist. i am close to his age. i never said those things in high school. i knew better and so does he. people need to think before charging people with racism. look at the candidates. i voted for their own counsel in 2016. i would support nikki haley, i have for years. i am not a trump supporter by any means, but the media has taken sides. thanks for giving me the time. i have rambled on. host: rich in tennessee. time for a few
he said he was the first -- it is going back to shirley chisholm and jesse jackson.the first african-american. these are joe biden's words. to be bright and articulate and good-looking and clean. those are not code words. ask any african-american what those words mean to them, that characterization. in defending it, he was called out immediately and said his mother used to talk about being clean as a whistle. that shows biden's character. he did not own up to it, i am from a former generation....