he kept booker t. apprised of everything that was going on, and charles anderson was a stalwart republican, and no matter what the democrats might try to do for blacks that might benefit them, and the regiment was one of those things -- if the republicans believed that the democrats were going to get credit for then they would find a way of blocking it, and if i didn't do it politically, as general james well knows, that national guard leadership is going to block it, and john francis o'ryan was very connected to tameny hall and was extremely hostile to the idea of a black national guard regiment and did everything he could to block it. now -- >> describe who o'ryan was. >> the commander of the new york national guard. a major general, and he would become police commissioner as well. but he operated for a very long time. he didn't want any -- didn't want a black national gnarl unit thism black national guard is not just a militaryfip/$ z organization. especially this time it's more of a social club. >>

he became chief ranger at booker t. washington in 1992. the chief of interpretation responsible for the interpretation and visitor protection, resource management, fire management, and collection management at the side. he became a supervisory park range of law enforcement at independence national struggle park and moved to valley forge in 1997 as a supervisory park ranger and lend later as the chief ranger were he managed law enforcement and interpretation. in 2009 he took on the role of in new hampshire. he became superintendent of petersburg national battlefield in 2010. most recently served as our acting deputy regional director, the chief of staff original director here for the northeast region. inholds bachelor's degree parks and recreation, with concentration with resource management. the federaluate of law enforcement training center with basic law enforcement criminal investigative background. introduce --age to it is my privilege to introduce him to you. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate the introduction. i am very honored to

black kids, brown kids, we don't talk as much about john brown as we do about frederick douglas, booker t. washington, jackie rab bin son, s ojou are, ner truth. harriette tub man. >> a whitey killed my jesus and they told me to call it a good day. i calthey call it a good friday. that's incredible. >> does the ability to make people laugh carry with it the ability people see the world and each other? you're watching talk to al jazeera with dick gregory. stay with us. >> i'm ray suarez. and this is talk to al jazeera. my guest this week is civil rights activist and comedian dick gregory. nothing we've been talking about so far is very funny. yet you've been a comic for a long time and using humor to get people to think about these contradictions. >> no, don't do that to me. >> what were you doing, you tell me, then. >> i don't believe you can get people to change under humor. in "the new york times" they asked me, in chicago. how many whit of these white folk who are laughing because they know they're guilty. stop and think. any time i went to south i thought i could die. that's what fear

booker t. washington in 1900.st chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beech sr. >> thank you very much. dinlt realize i was that long and been around that long. you start to do these reenactments and you start thinking about the 1800s. maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you and i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing reenactments but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, is our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in histo history. when they see us, they see people that look like them and they

booker t. washington was the champion -- statewide champion among black schools in everything.football, basketball, track. and so i went out for the band because i was too small to play football. not good enough to play basketball. i went out to the band. and after about two weeks, the band master said we have to go buy you a trumpet. we can't let you keep taking this trumpet home. i didn't have the machioney to a trumpet. my mother didn't have the machine. so i got tired of the band. so i went into boxing and won about 15 fights at 112 pounds. can you imagine? and i moved up to banterweight. and the last two fights i had, this guy hit me so hard, i saw stars. i didn't get knocked out, but i saw stars. i told the coach, i'm sorry. i got to go. i'm not doing that. he said just stick it out. the same thing happened two weeks later. i said, coach, i'm gone. don't try to talk me back. i'm glad he didn't succeed in talking me back because i would have been not running around here been hit up side the head so many times. i was also very smart academically and i loved science at that

booker t. washington was the champion, statewide champion for black schools and everything, football, basketball, track, everything. i was too small to play footba football, not good enough to play basketball. i went out to the band and after two weeks the bandmaster said we have to go buy you a trumpet. we can't let you keep taking this trumpet home and i didn't have any money to buy a trumpet. my mother had no money. no one had money around me so i dropped out of the band. then i decided to go into boxing and i was in about 15 fights at 112 pounds. can you imagine 112 pounds? i move that the banter weight and the last two fights i had this guy hit me so hard i saw stars. i didn't get knocked out but i saw stars. i told the coach, i'm sorry i've got to go. i'm not doing that. he said stick it out. the same thing happened two weeks later. i said coach, i'm going. don't try to talk me back. i'm glad he didn't succeed in talking me back. i wouldn't be here probably for being hit upside the head s

booker t. washington in 1900.o he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beach sr. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i didn't realize i was that old and had been around that long. you start to do these re-enactments and start thinking about 1800s and say maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you. i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing re-enactments, but we do living demonstrations, and what we find is that the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, as the superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in history. when they see us, they see people th

booker t. washington in 1900. he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, largest business membership organization in the metropolitan washington area. it is my privilege this morning to introduce to you dr. malcolm beech sr. >> thank you very much. dinlt realize i was that long and been around that long. you start to do these reenactments and you start thinking about the 1800s. maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you and i really wanted to thank you all for coming out. this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are re-enactors. we are commemorators of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all over the country not only doing reenactments but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is the impact on our audience, especially the young audience, is our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in histo history. when they see us, they see people that look like t

booker t. washington was the champion, statewide champion of black schools in everything; football, basketball, track, everything. and so i went out for the band because i was too small to play football, not good enough to play basketball. i went out to the band. and after about two weeks, the bandmaster said we've got to go out and why you a trumpet. we can't let you keep taking this trumpet home. i didn't have the money to buy a trumpet. nobody had the money around me, so i dropped out of the band. then i decided to go into boxing, and i won about 15 fights at 112 pounds. can you imagine? 112 pounds and i'm moving up to bantamweight at 118 pounds. the lars two fightings -- last two fights i had this guy hit me so hard, i saw stars. [laughter] i didn't get knocked out, but i saw stars. i told the coach, i'm sorry, i gotta go. [laughter] i'm not doing that. he said, just stick it out. the same thing happened two weeks later. coach, i'm gone. don't try to talk me back. i'm glad he did not succee

booker t. washington was the champion, state-wide champion of black schools in everything. football, basketball, track, everything. i went out for the band because i was so small to play football, not good enough to play basketball. i went out for the band. the band master said, you have to go by you a trumpet. we can't let you take this trumpet home. i didn't have the money to buy a trumpet. my mother didn't have the money. nobody had the money around me. so i dropped out of the band. then i decided to go into boxing. i won about 15 fight s at about 112 pounds. then moved up to ban tem weight at 118 pounds. the last fight i had this guy hit me so hard, i saw stars. i didn't get knocked out but i saw stars. i told the coach, i'm sorry, i got to go. i'm not doing that. she said, stick it out. the same thing happened two weeks later. i said, coach, i'm gone, don't try to talk me back. i'm glad he did. succeeded in talking me back. i would have been mumbling around here probably, been hit upside the head so many times. i was also very smart academically. and i loved science th

everybody knows about booker t. washington. god bless the negro. founded the black institution. old white money, old white elite money against the unions, precious immigrants coming in, deeply proud catholic. everyone knows pulchritude washington. what about cuba garrison in the legacy of thomas paine. we could go on. another powerful, magnificent voice. who knows about the great victoria garvin? we need to know more. historical amnesia again. we reached a point where the truth has to emerge. we're going to be so hungry for these voices because we will be need full of their insight and most importantly they're courageous example. they're courageous example. at that point you are either courageous or you go under. we are not at that point now. revolutionary times. i don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. thomas paine arrived at the moment with a revolution already in place. he just drop sen. i wish we could just drop in. [laughter] help black folks and white and red and yellow already organized, already anti imperialists, anti homophobic, anti-catholic, anti

everybody knows about booker t. washington. god bless the negro. founded the black institution. old white money, old white elite money against the unions, precious immigrants coming in, deeply proud catholic. everyone knows pulchritude washington. what about cuba garrison in the legacy of thomas paine. we could go on. another powerful, magnificent voice. who knows about the great victoria garvin? we need to know more. historical amnesia again. we reached a point where the truth has to emerge. we're going to be so hungry for these voices because we will be need full of their insight and most importantly they're courageous example. they're courageous example. at that point you are either courageous or you go under. we are not at that point now. revolutionary times. i don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. thomas paine arrived at the moment with a revolution already in place. he just drop sen. i wish we could just drop in. [laughter] help black folks and white and red and yellow already organized, already anti imperialists, anti homophobic, anti-catholic, anti

the money you are allowed to have booker t. washington and denver agreed about anything. they all agree and i would say it extrapolates at the moment the reason why black people don't use banks is because of this inherent mistrust but there are these opportunities that occurred where there are economic opportunities for people that are looking ahead to truth telling is necessary that we get off of some of the existing that we play all the time called black truth and really think about some of the other ones that have an impact on what we do today. the mortgage crisis so distinctly tied to the bank of 1865 to 1874 but many of us don't know that. we just know that we got a subprime mortgage and now the own money and have to move out of our house. we don't understand why grandmother put her thoughts under the mattress or why when i grew up it was called the birthday club you give money to the church, go around, put money in and get a big check and double the way of doing savings and are other people disrespect to the morality play these are things other people choose to meas

he became chief at booker t. washington in 1992, chief of interpretation, he was responsible for interpretation, visitor interpretation, resource management, fire management and fee collection operations within the site. 1994 supervisor law enforcement independence national historical park, and thend moved to valley forge, 1997, first as supervisory then chief ranger where he managed both law enforcement and interpretation. in 2009 took on the role of interim superintendent in new hampshire. he became superintendent of petersburg national battlefield in 2010 and most recently he served as our acting deputy regional director, chief of staff to our regional director here for the northeast region. he holds a bachelors degree in parks and recreation with concentration in resource management from slippery rock university in pennsylvania, and also a graduate of the federal law enforcement training center with a basic law enfoens forcement and criminal investigators background. it's my privilege to introduce to you supe

have suspended our bookers for posting support for gaza's fighters online some israeli universities hospitals and even mobile phone companies have followed suit one student who wore a t. shirt with the word palestine and a cafe near a traditional palestinian scarf now faces possible expulsion they are expressing their opinion it might be in a sarcastic way but it doesn't have any incitement to violence it doesn't have an incitement for its isn't it doesn't call for any act of faith violence and therefore legally speaking it is part of the speech that should be given protection the constitutional air protection arab students were too frightened to speak to us on camera but what they would say is that the university had completely ignored posts calling for the death the reality shows us not only now but also before that when it gets to the freedom of expression of the arabs it is easily more easily districted deals with such cases as the head of a worker's rights organization he's now contacted almost daily baraboo police who've been fired. suspended for speaking out against israel's operation in gaza even those who condemn the racism of far right wing israelis face pu

booker t. washington in 1900. also, he is the past chairman of the district of columbia chamber of commerce, the largest business membership organization in the washington metropolitan area. it is my pleasure to introduce to you -- [applause] >> thank you. i didn't realize i was that old and had been around that long. [laughter] you start to do these reenactments and think about the 1800s and say maybe i have been around for a while. good morning to all of you. i wanted to thank you for coming out. this stamp in the ceremonies -- this stamp and the ceremony surrounding it means a lot to us. we are reenactors. we are commemoraters of the thousands of african-americans who fought for their freedom during the american civil war. we go all of the country not only doing reenactments, but we do living history demonstrations. what we find is that the impact on our audience, especially the young audience,, they can see -- especially the young audience, as our superintendent said earlier, they can see themselves in history