much and the championship, ah, this is just a dream country of me and i'm so proud to be nosy, so thank you so much everyone. ah, australians with favor the much anticipated triumph. they'll hope the wait for the next home singles champion won't be as long to hail malley al jazeera. ah, it is good to have even a fellow adrian something up here. and so how that lines now to sierra, around 5000 flights have been cancelled in the us as the east coast hunkers down for a huge snowstorm. the bad weather is projected to booth through the northeast this weekend with new york and boston expected to be hardest hit our to serious gabe elizondo is in new york city. well, 55000000 americans that are in the eye of this storm. it's coming through the

northeast of the u. s. right now we're in the heart of new york city time square. and you can kind of get a sense here of how cold it is and how much snow there is here. there would normally be more people out on the streets right now in the morning, but not on a day like this. it's so cold. take a look at this really does pan down this way little bit. give you an idea of how the visibility is not that good, you can only see about, oh, i don't know, 2 or 3 blocks down this street here, u. s. president joe biden. cecilia will send troops to eastern europe that he had time to bolster, made her forces and detention over ukraine. top defense officials are urging russia to deescalate the u. s. navy, as racing to salvage and advanced fighter jet from the bottom of the south china sea, plains highly classified technology would be a qu for china if it found the aircraft 1st. the f 35 c crashed on monday, it was

a tried to landlord aircraft carrier. the west african block eco was has suspended burkina faso, a membership following the military crew that on monday. but the group hasn't imposed sanctions. a delegation is beginning to arrive in the country for talks. thousands of truck drivers from argentina are stuck at the border with chilly because of a cove at 19 testing order. some have been stranded for more than 2 weeks waiting for a negative result in order to enter chile at ashley bout, he has been ended of 44 year wait for a home australian open tennis champion. the world number one beat, the american, daniel collins in straight sets to seal title. she's the 1st australian woman to lift the title since christina o'neill, in 1978. and those are the headlines that he's continues here on al jazeera after the stream, which is coming up next. so i'll just say, oh, while the warm we listen,

design is are making serious efforts in order to impede under stop, to turn the windows. we meet with global jasmine, stormy, stung, amazon. i of the me. ok, welcome to the bonus edition of the stream where i bring you some of the great conversations from our archives today. yes. have turned their extraordinary personal stories into life. lessons for i saw coming up the force, the katie became an award winning poet. the mom who walked away from her ph. d to become a publisher, south asian children's literature. and the writer is encounters with mediocre white men. in spite hesitate, his book. let's start with disability rights attorney hobbin gerber, the 1st deaf line, graduate of harvard law school, hobbin po. to long,

her hearing translated to the stream, the translator type what was happening in the studio into a keyboard. that information was sent wirelessly to hobbins braille computer. so she could read it, i'm response, the interview about her memoir was seamless. so my parents love and adore me. they also are a little protective, like many parents, and growing up, we struggled with the challenge of my parents wanting to keep you safe and protected. and me wanting to experience as much as the world. 6 as possible, i'm deaf blind, i have limited vision and hearing, and there are a lot of negative stereotypes about what people with disabilities can and can't do . and that's the heart of the arguments i've had with my parents growing up. there was a situation where i wanted to help build a school in molly,

west africa and my parents said, no, it's not safe. and i told them you'll are from africa. my data grew up in ethiopia. my mom grew up in this area. how can they tell me it's not safe? it was because they were feeling protective as parents. it hadn't nothing to do with africa. even if i was building a school in se montana, i'm sure they would have told me no, it's not saved. so i tried in this is a story of advocacy. so my advocate it and i told them i know my abilities. i know what i can and can't do and i can build a school. and they still said no, i was really frustrated. i'm sure lots of kids can relate to this of wanting to do something in your parents saying no. so i asked myself, how can i convince them they're not believing me,

even though i feel like an expert when it comes to my abilities. so i asked myself, who else can help convince them that i can do this? so we brought in the program manager. so take students to developing countries to help build schools. and she sat down at lunch with me and my parents, and they asked her how can hop and build a school, she can't see. how would that work? and the manager told them, i don't know, but we'll try. we'll find a way. it's ok if you don't know how to do something as long as you try to seek solutions, as long as they try to figure it out and make it work. and we did. i went to molly. i helped build a school and i literally 1000000 and building a score. we were shoveling making bricks to gain the latrine,

so that kids in this village, and molly, good could i get an education? the height of the program though, was about teaching high school students. that we can have an impact in the world. even if you have a disability, you still can have an impact in the world. when i came back home, my parents were more convinced, but only slightly. even now, even after graduating from law school, there's still no us and still protector. tell a story, use it as an illustration. you'd give some stats and then you say, do better. this is how we can do better. i am sharing a picture with our audience of you in juno, in alaska, add a glass here, and that was a time when you were hoping to get a summer job. he was super qualified, really smart student, and you couldn't get a job. and you share the statistic of about 70 percent of blind people never work.

so this idea of being a person with disabilities and not being able to work how you working to change that that's a good question. so when i was in college, i really wanted a summer job, just like lots of other college students. and one of my friends told me, i know a place where there are lots of summer jobs, alaska. and he was arrayed, there's a lot to tourism industry in juneau, alaska, and lots of summer jobs because of the tourism industry. employers would see my resume and get excited and invite me to interviewers. i was valedictorian in high school, really good grades and paul edge. lots of volunteer experiences and still employers didn't want to hire me able ism assumptions that i was incompetent. i would not be

able to do the job. i applied to all kinds of jobs, dishwashing, shelving gift shops, folding laundry and hotel. these are tactile activities. they don't require a site, but they still assumed i couldn't do it and they wouldn't hire me. that taught me that introduced me into employment discrimination. and in me and me realised working hardest, not enough. we also need employers to get rid of abel ism stump, assuming that people with disabilities are incompetent. eventually that summer, i found one employer who was inclusive. she hired me to be a front desk clerk at a small gym in juneau, alaska. so my responsibility is included managing the cash register, the machines and the jam cleaning the changing rooms. she didn't care whether used

site or non visual technique, as long as they got the job done. lots of people with disabilities have alternative techniques and alternative techniques are equal in value to mean stream techniques . employers need to know that one day a woman came to the front desk of the gym and she said a treadmill isn't working. i followed her to the treadmills, and i pressed the on button. nothing happened. i tried the other buttons on the machine. nothing happened. so i felt the machine from top to bottom. and on the bottom, i felt a switch. i flicked the switch and the machine were to light. the lady size only goodness i didn't see lads which i told her i didn't see it either. the very funny and determined disability rights advocate, halden gob. there are some string guess who

a simply unforgettable. like the poet and play, right. lemme say, lemme grew up in the north of england in foster care and institutions. his story is traumatic and lem doesn't hope back. he unleashed the warners, in his memoir, my name is y, and right here on the screen for the 1st sort of the 1st 16 years of my life, i thought my name was norman, and i had, i left the car system at 18 years of age with no family and no witnesses. i was a living and had been forced to live as a lie. i had my mother and family stolen from me. i was imprisoned as a child. i was institutionalized. i was just dragged through a foster home of people who hated me as a baby, a learn to hate me. and then i was left alone 18 years to survive the rest of my life with no family. so i spent 30 years trying to get to the

documents, which were witness to the things that had happened me to me because otherwise i would sound like some crazy guy banging on about some strange thing that happened in his childhood. no, i was imprisoned. i had my mother stolen from me and my family and even my name. i didn't even know my name till i was 16 and a half. so getting these files and seeing, seeing what they did to me over 18 years, showed me the evidence that i needed to tank the entire government in england to court so that they could pay for what they had done to me. and i also spent my adult life searching for the family that had been stolen from me. that's one story. but this book, firstly, i took the government to court when i found, when i got all of the files in 2015,

i had the evidence of what they done to me. and then i could write the book and, and remember my life has been public record. hundreds of people writing comments about me a decide making decisions about me imprisoning me even as a child. so, so to me, the memoir is not a expose a of myself. it is showing you what is already public record. i have a right to my past. i have a right to my childhood, and i have a right to my future and my presence as well. and that's really what my book is about. realized i am a black man. i said to myself, i am a black man. i am not colorblind. i am a black man, i am not sure he white. i am not a nigger, a coon, a wog. i am a black man. i changed,

seemingly overnight from the cheeky chappie. the happy go lucky joker into a threat and it hurt me. how could identifying who i am be a threat to people? i couldn't unsee the shopkeeper flush shred from the neck or woods at the sight of me. or the store detectives following me in the shops at the bus stops. i couldn't on see the woman clutching her handbag as i stood waiting for the bush. i couldn't and see that no one would sit next to me on the bus. i couldn't on see men glaring at me. i couldn't on see people in cows craning their necks to stare at me. i couldn't on see the people from the tops of the buzz is pointing at me and laughing at me. i couldn't on see them hacking up flem and spitting me from the bows. i couldn't on see the police watching me or the police cow slowing down deliberately as they passed. i couldn't on see the cars accelerating as i crossed the road

slam thing. so i found myself powerful men howard were reading your work is poetic and beautiful, even as you're telling harrowing tales and stories about what happened to you, i want to share what your work means to some people. this is tony mason on twitter, who says just finished, my name is why it is superbly written, harrowing thought provoking and shocking read how wonderful to see the kid that went through all of this as he is today. but put that to one side for a moment because earlier you mentioned that you're not alone in this in a way you mentioned some documentaries to talk about the system of adoption. and one of them was featured on al jazeera as witness. it's called a girl in return. we have a good momentum. we have a video coming from the director who's a friend of yours, katrina pierre. and here's what she told to stream. i think the biggest surprise to me doing my work with these to fill my done about adoption is with the 1st one.

mercy, mercy was definitely when i found out that 90 percent approximately 90 percent of all the options in the world, they are not really off. and they do have a living mother and father. but they are not able to take care of them. and would my work on girl in return? i was very, very shocked to see how much your culture and your mother tongue, how important that is for you when you were formed as a person that i mean one could say that it kind of runs in your blood and you need, if you exclude that from a person, you create a big trauma from this person. and i would like to hear them talk about how he experience that whole cultural thing or the lack of it in his upbringing. so them, what are your thoughts on that? but keep in mind, as we're doing the show where we're going out, live on youtube,

and there are so many people in the comment sank. he's ethiopian, he is habersham. i now, ham. so talk to my the battle identity because people recognize you whether you as a young child or not. no, i am now known to my people, okay. like i am known to my people in ethiopia and i am, i'm blessed by being part of a community of ethiopians in ethiopia. and throughout the world. you know, my father was a pilot for ethiopian airlines. my mom works for the u. n. in new york. i've sisters and brothers all over the world, but but, but the true family is of people who stop me in the street in addis ababa in new york in washington dc, especially washington dc. a nairobi all all over the world who are ethiopians, who can look at me and say it's you, lemon. they say lemon. my name in am harric lemon. it means the question why. and it reminds me most of all this that and it's,

this is the most important thing about my entire life and finding my family and of ethiopia in general. and part of me, it's that i am not defined by my scars books by the incredible ability to heal. so when i meet ethiopians i, i am helium. and so it's a joyous occasion. my story may seem sad to you, but i always followed the light. i always followed what i believe to be the truth even when isolated and having nobody to support me. a great son of infidel pierre lemon. sissy a joe morello, never planned on becoming a writer until she says she was forced into it. some issues were just too important for her to ignore light racism and massaging. last january,

we spoke about her latest work mediocre, the dangerous legacy of white male america. inflation for the last time, a frustration, but your moment and the moment was trying to be in the right way to treat with other women. and this was at times new lack to focus on craft, treat, you know, that we've developed because women, so we are, we get a chance to focus on their work and all we could really talk about and what we needed to talk about were these men, these white men that were impacting our mileage and so heavily and it as people kept saying why the wife was happening, what is the homeless, you know, i kept seeing the story unfold in front of the path that led to where we were in that particular time. and where we are today, and i wanted other people to see so that we could start looking at the power and some of the as a whole instead of treating each individual bab after like an individual. and so

part of the systemic problem. and so i want to really show that story to people, so they could on youtube again, if you really inspiring a lot of conversations, i know i know you're used to this. this is fly ribbon derrick. how long is it going to take before things ever change as it seems? america has always had this issue. what is the main things that will lead to change your office question all the time? really, i think it's really important to recognize that part of why we haven't been able to make progress. so there's a couple of things will happen. one is that we have, you know, almost exclusively frame discussions on race with around personal feelings and personal animals who are a racist, if you walk around actively hating people of color, right? you are sex. and if you walk around actively hating women, and then if you not, you are a good person part of the solution. but what we're actually talking about are system. we're talking about systems built to advantage from populations over other

systems built to the labor of members of our population and to give people a sense of comfort, the exploitation of oppression. and we are told to look at interpersonal relationships only because people make money of the system and being power from the i don't want to the looking at it so that when we do india systems, right, when we start to make political change for scott mc change what we see is an immediate violence backlash, like we saw this last week. right? because people are so afraid of systemic change and we have to recognize it by dying that we haven't been addressing and making sort of change in our systems. because we've been told time and time again, it's not possible that's a problem life or we have been punished viciously for any progress we make in that area until the model that we look at the and recognize that this is where i work my from. you have to push through, we have never ending opportunities. the systems. ready were built by people, they are not immovable,

but we are told that they are and we are led to believe that they are so that we don't do the work. but we are powerful if we come together and actually start engaging and systems to be pushed for change. we can create it and that if we can create it, there wouldn't be such a violent backlash towards our comforts because people see that change coming. and they are afraid of it. when you work on a book like this, there is a toll when you talk about racism, white supremacy and hate, and people who don't like you talking about that, make it very, very clear. can you share not part of your what do you mind? yeah. you know, i think that anyone who, especially if you are a person of color, chris, if you are a black woman, we, when you threaten the system, the system comes back for you and people who are investing system come for you. and absolutely my experience, while it might seem extreme, if you're not doing this work, is not unfamiliar to many black people who have been fighting for liberation and

for change in this country. and so, you know, we've been threatened, we've had, you know, officers brought to our home when we were swatted, we have had to move from our home due to regular harassment and threats in our home . they says a regular occurrence and it's, i'm not alone. and if you look at history and even if you will get you'll see time and time again, generation after generation, the way in which people are made to pay chris speaking around these systems. but i think it's also important to note that this comes for people everyday people who aren't writing about why missy everyday people of color, who do something, anything that inconveniences the power structure, the inconveniences whiteness in this country. you are often madness of violence, backlash, and we see this in plenty of our new stories where, you know, black people can't have a barbecue or you know, so lemonade without someone calling the police on them. right. these violent leper

cautions are waiting for all of us, no matter what we do. if we ever challenge the system or even in the best selling new york times or jerome alone. finally, the importance of representation in books when stream gas sol judge, oh, she was starting her family. she couldn't find stories that she liked. the also represented her culture to read to her little girl. so what if you do about it? soldier, set up a publishing house. so the journey to creating virus baby's really started on my own journey to motherhood. i was pregnant with my daughter and i was having the library, the baby shower as you do in the age of interest. and i really wanted to put books on our bookshelf that reflected my own culture, my history, my heritage, and what i found out there was really problematic. you know, there were books out there, but some of them were developmentally inappropriate. some of them were culturally

an accurate or worse, culturally insensitive, and i couldn't believe that in this day and age. my daughter wasn't going to see herself on the cover of the book. so it took, leaving my ph. d program and a $1000.00 a start up capital. but that's how bark babies was launched. we have a tweet here that is perfect for you because this is ivan, astro says there aren't enough platforms that allow people of color to write stories in their own way. publishing houses expect writers to write in a manner that they want. not that the writers want, he who has the money has the power to dictate what he wants, and i'll add and she as well. but talk to us about what this tweet makes you feel. and this was some of the thinking behind why you started it. yeah, i think i truly wanted to create a platform where south asian, the south asian experience could be seen and heard and created. and that's why it ended up being a publishing house. you know, i tried writing a book and you know, maybe one day there will be

a book that i write. but for some reason it wasn't what was going to happen. and so instead i decided to launch a publishing house because i really just how important it was to give a platform to others and to give a platform to this entire community. so to you saying that you couldn't find the right books for the family that you were starting. i'm just scooting through some of the books in your publishing house. we have finding all coming out next may. bad meaning is powerful. always angelie sala in the sky. have an alt seal series as well. can you tell us one story that that shows what to be culturally sensitive to be culturally aware actually means ah, that's a really, really great question. and i think each one of our books does a really phenomenal job of sharing that south asian experience. because we recognize that the south asian experience isn't unified. it's multi dimensional. you know, you have foundations, who are muslims, who are new, who are christian,

who are seek, and we want to share all of that. i think there are a lot of books in her popcorn that do that really, really well. let's celebrate the volley is one of our absorbed perennial favorites that really shares how the value, the multi face holiday. and that's a story that's not often too old in mainstream media. also, i think super sophia seems the day is a really phenomenal story because like right there on the cover, you have this multicultural family. you know, you have a dad wearing his turban, you have his daughter who's proudly speak with her long, long hair on the cover. and it's really just an opportunity for those of us who have so many different backgrounds who have all those different intersections to see ourselves. and that i show for today. thanks for watching the for february on a disease. china has the winter olympics will diplomatically comp and the corona

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