them in your house online so why did a lot of research on the internet and had one in turn at the schaumburgff up for me. as a writer? this is my third military history i wrote a book about a modern air force search and rescue and a book about world war ii and i have been a writer my whole life. this is the first i have written word there was no one alive that i could talk to about it. there is a man living in massachusetts who was 106 and i called his house and his son said he cannot respond to questions. i do not know the was it the he was in paris in 1920 i do know that much. >> is this the only book of the african american history? bernanke's. specifically. >> what was it just the mystique a? i apologize. >> my wife founded on line looking upward parliamentary realize this was a story that no one knew it was the and told part of a relatively forgotten war and the things that they did they spent more days in the trenches than any american troops and because they served with the french army, the french army gave them 171 metals. the u.s. gave them nothing. and the general said very little

i thought of it day she started to do research and interviews and all kinds of events this schaumburge my second home. one of the people that i talk to was dr. john henry clarke [applause] he knew bumpy johnson and the things that i wanted to know from him more than anything what bumpy was like because this time i was wanting to know was what was wrong with me? how can i admire this man that i kn has done such dastardly things? and i was kind of afraid to bring that up to him because i dinot know how to articulate. he was a real guy. and after hcalled me down and gave me tape-recorded that worked, the feelings put me add these gummy he said the saying is i admired bumpy as well and i still do to this day. this was in 1995 or 1996. i said how could you? he said because people are three-dimensional and there is more than one side. he said everybody exploited carl umbro bumpy exploited harlem but he gave something back. he was a gangster but he was a gangster with a social conscience. so to a acknowledge the good things that he has done, does nkt mean that you turn a blind eye to the bad

. >> good afternoon, i'm howard datsun, director of the schaumburg center for research and black culturei spoiz the reason i'm on the panel is that i did a book a-a few years ago entitled the emergence of african-american culture and, one of the chapter in the book deals th the question of the origins, if you will f what we call ourselves, call black english. and i'll be saying things about that and what its relevance is for this topic today. >> good afternoon, can you hear me? okay. my name is carol lee, also known as safashia mataboui with the school of ecation and social policy at northwestern university and founder and chairman of the board of directors of the betty shabazz charter schools and the concept development center, a school founded in 1972. and is still in operation, and i'm also president of the american educational research association. >> thank you, panelists. some call this period, 2009, the post-racial period and you may agree or not agree with that but i'll ask the panelists from your discline what is the relevance of this panel discussion, talking about black english