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i've always felt the white house was a safe environment. the president lives there and all of the precautions that could be taken are taken. so i've never felt that way. i felt it was one of the safest places in the world to be. steve: did you ever connect with your daughter? gary walters: i did. thank you for asking. she was frantic by the time i got a hold of her. her mother couldn't get in touch with her on the phone, and i finally did get in touch with her, and the reports that were coming out after the initial one that was all over campus was that a plane, in fact, had crashed into the white house. somebody there had confused the pentagon with the white house. it's not unusual for young people of that age. they're not up on some of the washington buildings as others, but we did make the connection and we cried on the phone for a minute or two. it turned out one of the hotels that the terrorists had stayed in prior to leaving boston was also the one that we stayed in when we were up there visiting my daughter. there was quite a connecti
i've always felt the white house was a safe environment. the president lives there and all of the precautions that could be taken are taken. so i've never felt that way. i felt it was one of the safest places in the world to be. steve: did you ever connect with your daughter? gary walters: i did. thank you for asking. she was frantic by the time i got a hold of her. her mother couldn't get in touch with her on the phone, and i finally did get in touch with her, and the reports that were coming...
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, white evangelical christians. if you are thinking pure tactics in the wake evangelicals to vote in the last four election cycles. it intends for republican presidential candidate. if you want to do a deep dive, that would be the way to go. protestants have been leaning republican but not as strongly. same is true for white catholics have been leaning republican but not as strongly. there is a real opportunity in those two groups to sort of think about, you know, those two groups are also in the midwest. like a white working class that barack obama did better was really in the midwest, outside the south and particularly around basic issues like the auto bail out was kind of a big deal for white christians in the south were working class. that's a good opportunity. it's also important to remember that yes there is this decline, but white christians still make up 45% of the country. still nearly half and they are still in the majority of the elect jury. >> if you saw today in the upshot of "the new york times," it's
, white evangelical christians. if you are thinking pure tactics in the wake evangelicals to vote in the last four election cycles. it intends for republican presidential candidate. if you want to do a deep dive, that would be the way to go. protestants have been leaning republican but not as strongly. same is true for white catholics have been leaning republican but not as strongly. there is a real opportunity in those two groups to sort of think about, you know, those two groups are also in...
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i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house.hen the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like maf
i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house.hen the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the...
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i actually think this white house is one of the -- i only was, i was a white house reporter during the first term of the obama administration, so my experiences with this white house, but when i spoke with people that covered the bush white house, they said it was slightly easier. i think with each administration as technology evolves, they can tweet and facebook and instagram and just kind of control the message and not have to answer reporters' questions as much. so i guess i don't -- >> just an impression i had that journalists feel more comfortable asking uncomfortable questions. there used to be respect in the past that kind of protected -- >> yeah. i don't know, yeah. when i was researching nixon, i was really interested in julie nixon during watergate doing, actually, standing in for her father at a press conference. and one of the reporters said, you know, this is absurd that you're taking questions. your father should be here answering these questions. and i felt that was very blunt of a reporter. >> right. >> so i don't know. i think that access is not necessarily -- i mean,
i actually think this white house is one of the -- i only was, i was a white house reporter during the first term of the obama administration, so my experiences with this white house, but when i spoke with people that covered the bush white house, they said it was slightly easier. i think with each administration as technology evolves, they can tweet and facebook and instagram and just kind of control the message and not have to answer reporters' questions as much. so i guess i don't --...
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not to be in the white house to be in the white house. b but to be in the white house because you can make a difference. >> i agree, completely. >> there we go. thanks so much for coming. my name is rachel and i'm a junior in the foreign service school at georgetown. my question is, it seems like the role of chief of staff of the first spouse has been defined in terms of the gender of the spouse, for example, worrying about details about wardrobe, because the way the media treats women is very different than the way the media treats men. and the issues of the first spouse as you mentioned, have been more soft issues, i suppose, in a sense, more compatible with the first lady as its advocate. so i was wondering, if we have a first spouse who is not a woman coming in, how do you see that affecting the role of the chief of staff in the future? thank you. >> well, first of all, i think that what you said is not exactly representative of the role. inasmuch as when mrs. clinton was first lady and claire will vouch for this, there was huge debat
not to be in the white house to be in the white house. b but to be in the white house because you can make a difference. >> i agree, completely. >> there we go. thanks so much for coming. my name is rachel and i'm a junior in the foreign service school at georgetown. my question is, it seems like the role of chief of staff of the first spouse has been defined in terms of the gender of the spouse, for example, worrying about details about wardrobe, because the way the media treats...
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we now have measurable decline among white evangelical protestants as well as white male protestants of that means the white evangelicals in the south can no longer point their fingers at their northeastern cousins and say you guys are declining for your liberal theology and we are holding the line and yet we are growing, but that is not what we see this point. we see decline on both sides. these are the external numbers at the national level and you can also see it if you look inside of denomination, the major evangelical denominations themselves to the largest evangelical are southern baptist and mrs. a plot of growth rate among southern baptist from the 1950s to the present and you can see and growth mode until last decade and in the last decade it has slipped into negative growth rates losing members for nine straight years of demographic boss. what is listening to the electorate, we are in the middle of two national parties having their conventions and they are headed towards a bit of break for august and then will rev up in earnest after labor-- labor day and be nothing but ele
we now have measurable decline among white evangelical protestants as well as white male protestants of that means the white evangelicals in the south can no longer point their fingers at their northeastern cousins and say you guys are declining for your liberal theology and we are holding the line and yet we are growing, but that is not what we see this point. we see decline on both sides. these are the external numbers at the national level and you can also see it if you look inside of...
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so my experience is with this white house but when spoke with people who spoke with the bush white house, it was slightly easier. each administration, as technology evolves they can tweet and facebook and instagram and control the media. >> an impression i had that journalists feel more comfortable now asking uncomfortable questions. used to be respect in the past that protected a lot of. >> yeah. when i was researching nixon, i was really interested in julie nixon during watergate, standing in for her father as a pret conference and one of the reporters said this is absurd you're taking questions your father should be here answering these questions. and i felt that was very blunt of a reporter itch think that access is not necessarily -- there was a time when kennedy and johnson were friends withreporters and had real relationships with them. from a -- i tend to take the reporter's perspective on that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> kind of an unfair question but by be the "the residence" was an excellent book. who was your favorite of the modern first ladies? you don't have to answer t
so my experience is with this white house but when spoke with people who spoke with the bush white house, it was slightly easier. each administration, as technology evolves they can tweet and facebook and instagram and control the media. >> an impression i had that journalists feel more comfortable now asking uncomfortable questions. used to be respect in the past that protected a lot of. >> yeah. when i was researching nixon, i was really interested in julie nixon during watergate,...
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she digs deep into the roots of white identity in her book, the history of white people. leading historian and author nell irvin painter. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. nell irvin painter, it's great to have you here. you are the author of sojourner truth: a life, a symbol and your latest book, a history of white people. >> "the"... >> hinojosa: the history. >> ...history of white people. >> hinojosa: well, welcome, nell, to our program. >> thank you. >> hinojosa: so speaking of the history of white people... >> mm-hmm? >> hinojosa: do you think that there might be a time, let's say 100 years from now or 200 years from now, when other historians are looking back at this moment in history and saying, "oh, god, those silly americans of back then." and these would be other americans... >> yes. >> hinojosa: ...saying, "well, god, they divided people up into race!" >> yeah. >> hinojosa: do you think that that's possible? >> yes. if they're historians, they won't cast judgment, however. they'll just say, "in the past, americans divided people up by race." they also div
she digs deep into the roots of white identity in her book, the history of white people. leading historian and author nell irvin painter. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. nell irvin painter, it's great to have you here. you are the author of sojourner truth: a life, a symbol and your latest book, a history of white people. >> "the"... >> hinojosa: the history. >> ...history of white people. >> hinojosa: well, welcome, nell, to our program. >> thank...
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i actually think that this white house is one of -- i only was -- i was a white house reporter duringthe first term of the obama administration so my experience is with this white house. when i spoke with people who covered the bush white house they said that it was slightly easier. i think with each administration as technology evolves, they can tweet and facebook and instagram and control the message and not have to answer reporters' questions as much. .. >> >> but to a fault in all lot of cases but with the betty ford center took it to a minute that you have an addiction problem to help other people in is powerful and eleanor roosevelt didn't talk about it that much. >> but rosalynn carter is the most honest influence of the first lady's being so upset that her has been lost in 1980 it is the biggest regret of perlite that this many years later she is so passionate. i like the honesty of rosalind carter. >> was surprised to learn that barbara bush and marilyn quayle did not get along. >> not at all i think some of friends told me that if barbara bush was her bottle of first lady wa
i actually think that this white house is one of -- i only was -- i was a white house reporter duringthe first term of the obama administration so my experience is with this white house. when i spoke with people who covered the bush white house they said that it was slightly easier. i think with each administration as technology evolves, they can tweet and facebook and instagram and control the message and not have to answer reporters' questions as much. .. >> >> but to a fault in...
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the white house post a lot of photos on the white house flickr page. i think people in the media don't necessarily like it, but a lot of the users out there love it because you get to see a lot behind-the-scenes. they are putting out thousands .ore images week isce or twice a what we would do. now, with the digital, it is a did -- it is a daily occurrence. some of the press photographers are using the iphone's as the primary camera on some of the campaign trips because it is smaller and easier to move around, but they can also post it instantly. it is a dramatic change. 'sen i worked on george p bush campaign, it was dramatically different. i would shoot film and it would be 3, 4, 5 days before i saw anything. now, it is instantaneous. i actually like it now better. my question is, when you were traveling with the bushes, were you shooting every single second of the day or how did you choose what to shoot and what not to shoot? david: there were three schedules. a monthly schedule, a daily schedule -- a monthly schedule, a weekly schedule, and a daily
the white house post a lot of photos on the white house flickr page. i think people in the media don't necessarily like it, but a lot of the users out there love it because you get to see a lot behind-the-scenes. they are putting out thousands .ore images week isce or twice a what we would do. now, with the digital, it is a did -- it is a daily occurrence. some of the press photographers are using the iphone's as the primary camera on some of the campaign trips because it is smaller and easier...
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that a black man couldn't look a white person in the eye.o just lost his life, hands up with a police officer, one who supposed -- an entity that is supposed to protect and serve. it's not just black people who are killing each other. and i want to be clear about this. white people kill each other, too. you kill people who you are in proximity to. that's just a fact. >> americans kill each other. >> that's true. and you were just talking about black americans. i'm telling you about an issue of excessive force and excessive violence with black people and men and women in uniform. that is also a problem. so i just think that you all -- i'm asking you now, as your friend, when we go off air, please utilize facts when you bring up these points about how dangerous -- >> but also, let me point out, crime rates nationwide have gone down since the 1990s, during the crack epidemic. i mean, there are -- to say that it's worse than it has ever, ever, ever been is just factually incorrect. >> yeah. i mean, maybe he's exaggerating -- >> maybe? >> but to
that a black man couldn't look a white person in the eye.o just lost his life, hands up with a police officer, one who supposed -- an entity that is supposed to protect and serve. it's not just black people who are killing each other. and i want to be clear about this. white people kill each other, too. you kill people who you are in proximity to. that's just a fact. >> americans kill each other. >> that's true. and you were just talking about black americans. i'm telling you about...
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this is what is now the blue room at the white house. this is good because it is by washington irving, who is .itting on the left he talks about coming to washington, and he stayed in georgetown. the white got to house after many misadventures and was in mrs. madison's drawing room. it's a great description of mrs. madison and she is a fine portly, buxom dame who has a smile and a pleasant word for everybody. he described her outfits was pink with tram, you see her with president madison and admiral --. nothing existed of this room after the fire. only a little fragment of wallpaper remained which was around the door and the top of the wall. the design of the chairs in the mantle was known. the drawing survived but the little piece of wallpaper and a hatbox and nothing else. this is jefferson's cabinet, where the state dining room is now. he really lived fairly inform you -- informally. and margarettor smith, who wrote about everything in washington, she had an accurate description of the room including the drawer in the desk and that he
this is what is now the blue room at the white house. this is good because it is by washington irving, who is .itting on the left he talks about coming to washington, and he stayed in georgetown. the white got to house after many misadventures and was in mrs. madison's drawing room. it's a great description of mrs. madison and she is a fine portly, buxom dame who has a smile and a pleasant word for everybody. he described her outfits was pink with tram, you see her with president madison and...
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>> that's not winter white. that's white/white. >> i wear white/white. jill martin and i agree that's silly. >> i think most people are on board with that. i any mosteo old, something that does not exist anymore. >> remember the white shoes. >> i don't like white shoes. >> that's what feminism is all about, hoda. choice. >> do you like white shoes? >> i have one pair i like very much. >> you do? >> want me to bring them in and show them? i will bring them in tomorrow and show you. >> we want to look at what we have in front of us. we are wondering what you think of it. these are hotdogs. they are h-a-u-t. that's with truffle mushrooms and truffle flecks and gold specs and oil and some kind of cheese with 100-year-old aged balsamic. one is worth $200. $200, $600, $800, $1,000. >> we have been sniffing them for a couple minutes. we asked for one with catsup and mustard. >> i don't want that much of that on there. that's a lot of trouble. >> it doesn't look appealing just looking at it. you don't really want to get in there. >> too much stuff. >> i'm taking
>> that's not winter white. that's white/white. >> i wear white/white. jill martin and i agree that's silly. >> i think most people are on board with that. i any mosteo old, something that does not exist anymore. >> remember the white shoes. >> i don't like white shoes. >> that's what feminism is all about, hoda. choice. >> do you like white shoes? >> i have one pair i like very much. >> you do? >> want me to bring them in and show...
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slavery was needed in order to the white crackers, the white working class or hillbillies so that they would remain peaceful, and it was very successful. it was amazing how the south was able to sustain such an withoutatic society having to use terror, except on the slaves, of course. if you were to put slavery up for a referendum in this country in 1860, it would have passed. slavery except for the baptists and mennonites and all that, but aside from them, nobody cared about slavery. the second thing is that if you put jim crow up for a vote today in this country, i think it would pass. professor crofts: let me jump in on your good points there -- it should be clear from my comments that i do not see secession, especially in retrospect, as having been a successful tactic for ensuring the long-run well-being of the slave system. nothing boomeranged more spectacularly than the effort to protect slavery by breaking up the union and forming the confederate states of america. wj cash andbout "the mind of the south" brings to mind a book i'm sure many of us are familiar with. cash was this
slavery was needed in order to the white crackers, the white working class or hillbillies so that they would remain peaceful, and it was very successful. it was amazing how the south was able to sustain such an withoutatic society having to use terror, except on the slaves, of course. if you were to put slavery up for a referendum in this country in 1860, it would have passed. slavery except for the baptists and mennonites and all that, but aside from them, nobody cared about slavery. the...
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especially for white people.any of the program staff that he and others to mean are the very programs that help lift many whites, particularly in the south and other areas, out of poverty. we know when you look at that particular congressperson and his record, if we as a country followed his voting record, we would have less voting rights because he has refused to sign on to restoring the voting rights act. we would have less health care, less wages. we would have less love, less mercy. in many of the very people that are heard by the policies he prpromote are white. we have 1.9 million poor people in north carolina, the majority of them are white. 340 6000 of 500,000 people being denied medicaid expansion are white. what he and others are afraid of is what we have seen in the moral monday movement. what i'm seeing as i go around the country, black and white and latino people coming together and forming fusion coalition and understanding that all of this divisive rhetoric and these divisive policies was designed
especially for white people.any of the program staff that he and others to mean are the very programs that help lift many whites, particularly in the south and other areas, out of poverty. we know when you look at that particular congressperson and his record, if we as a country followed his voting record, we would have less voting rights because he has refused to sign on to restoring the voting rights act. we would have less health care, less wages. we would have less love, less mercy. in many...
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white person in the world. not one white person. i remember that day, and it was like, wow, which was really weird because in itself it showed how segregated we were as a city and a community. to think, what were we, 14 or 15 years old in ninth grade, to be on earth that long in jackson, mississippi, and did not know one white person. i remember that day, it was very uncomfortable for me because i was very anxious and just didn't know what to expect. i also remember how it was when we went to the first class. all the black kids would sit on this side, and the white kids would sit on that side, and we're all looking at each other because it was just a new experience. now looking back, i'm so glad i got a chance to experience that. i think it was not only good for our city, but it was good during that time for the entire country. he also said he really liked the lunches at bailey junior high school much better than he liked the lunches in his school. i wanted to read another one. this is by freddie. freddie was a football player at mu
white person in the world. not one white person. i remember that day, and it was like, wow, which was really weird because in itself it showed how segregated we were as a city and a community. to think, what were we, 14 or 15 years old in ninth grade, to be on earth that long in jackson, mississippi, and did not know one white person. i remember that day, it was very uncomfortable for me because i was very anxious and just didn't know what to expect. i also remember how it was when we went to...
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the black-and-white photo is a white family saving grace before a meal. and then add this line of text, further explaining the transition to the message. it said we will soon be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first innings giving. god has still not with all these blessings upon this nation. although we now richly deserve such condemnation. we have a lot to give thanks for coming give thanks far, but we need to pray to our heavenly father and ask them to protect us from those enemies outside and within who want to see america does. that is the message that comes from attached to this image after the reelection of president barack obama in 2012. at the time i wasn't working on the book quite at but immediately saved it because it seemed to me an artifact in a symbol of the visceral reaction to the reelection of brack obama in 2012. part of it is about unpacking when we see these kinds of reactions. this kind of throwback imagery to a previous time, a mythical golden era, what is behind that since the assaults a loss and grief. the book is the end
the black-and-white photo is a white family saving grace before a meal. and then add this line of text, further explaining the transition to the message. it said we will soon be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first innings giving. god has still not with all these blessings upon this nation. although we now richly deserve such condemnation. we have a lot to give thanks for coming give thanks far, but we need to pray to our heavenly father and ask them to protect us from those enemies...
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not black to black, not white people talking to white people, and i don't want to talk about that now we are trying to civilly find a solution and find out how history plays a part. who would hike to tackle that -- like to tackle that question? >> the issue around white identity, around black identity, you know, we used to wear a t-shirt, it's a black thing, you wouldn't understand. taaughter]ldn't .. enter into our experience, and to engage in it. what you have to do is be committed to justice. >> you have to be mindful at all, in all moments. so it is not about, how do i enter as white person, i don't have black experience. are you committed to justice than ever then you're committed to this work, period. >> that's what i wanted to say. [laughter] >> i think langston hughes instead better. in his poem, dream of freedom, he said this dream today, and battle back against the wall. it must be saved for all. it doesn't matter, whether you are black, white, red, black or brown. your commitment to the values of this society. to the values of this society, which is of course, equality. we
not black to black, not white people talking to white people, and i don't want to talk about that now we are trying to civilly find a solution and find out how history plays a part. who would hike to tackle that -- like to tackle that question? >> the issue around white identity, around black identity, you know, we used to wear a t-shirt, it's a black thing, you wouldn't understand. taaughter]ldn't .. enter into our experience, and to engage in it. what you have to do is be committed to...
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white college graduates make up 66% of trump supporters.h no college. four years only made up 36% of voters. the demographics in america are clearly changing and with those changes come supervisions of the white working class. we want to get past those and --. we teamed one the kaiser family foundation for a in-depth survey. what we found both confirmed and challenged basically a lot of conventional wisdom. one finding, 40% of white working class believe america's best days are behind us. take that information and take trump's repeated slogan, make america great again. and you can see reason why this votic bloc is the occur of donald trump's support. john kink joins us with more. we talked about the importance of the white working class and now we have this detailed look after who drives their politics. can o you take a us through what the survey found. >> at its core is the economic anxiety and feeling left out. left out of the economy and feeling i in order by government. look at this. will your children be worse off? essentially the amer
white college graduates make up 66% of trump supporters.h no college. four years only made up 36% of voters. the demographics in america are clearly changing and with those changes come supervisions of the white working class. we want to get past those and --. we teamed one the kaiser family foundation for a in-depth survey. what we found both confirmed and challenged basically a lot of conventional wisdom. one finding, 40% of white working class believe america's best days are behind us. take...
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she regularly brought soldiers and their families to the white house. one of the most touching stories, not told by her and this is a mark of her humility but told by the british and bassett are that there is an event at the white house honoring good relations after the war of 1812 when the british and after was invited. there is a very old soldier from the war of 1812 was invited to take part. he had his uniform set separately and was just aghast of him at the white house that he arrived without the stripes on the arm. she sat on the floor of the white house, got, got her needlepoint out and stitched the soldiers stripes onto the uniforms so that he could be properly dressed for the president. the british investors saw this since told the story about lucy hayes. so she gets that big-name lemonade lucy, that's what we know her four. it was really her husband who is the -- person. she got got stuck with the nickname but she is so much more interesting in so many layers of her own care and concern about issues that are very important once. >> it in fact t
she regularly brought soldiers and their families to the white house. one of the most touching stories, not told by her and this is a mark of her humility but told by the british and bassett are that there is an event at the white house honoring good relations after the war of 1812 when the british and after was invited. there is a very old soldier from the war of 1812 was invited to take part. he had his uniform set separately and was just aghast of him at the white house that he arrived...
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with the authoritarian white male agencies no longer opposed to slavery, white masculinity required new ground on which to be set-off. fat ground was marriage. the work of scholars has shown that policies to protect traditional marriage, you might call it today, for more board forces that stood to disrupted. i have a third example, and i won't talk a lot about it, but there is another measure that -- if you guys write something nice about me, i can come back in the summer and talk about something in the spring of 1965, the same law that outlawed dissemination of pornography to the troops. they were worried about what men were reading and what kind of husbands and sons they would be when they came home, and they were worried about what pornography would do to marriage, but i won't talk about that today. that's just a teaser. but there are a lot of these conversations. what would it be like? how could they, through legislation, shake it or contain what happened during the war? this leaves a few questions. what elements of this reconstruction era debate about marriage do we see resonances
with the authoritarian white male agencies no longer opposed to slavery, white masculinity required new ground on which to be set-off. fat ground was marriage. the work of scholars has shown that policies to protect traditional marriage, you might call it today, for more board forces that stood to disrupted. i have a third example, and i won't talk a lot about it, but there is another measure that -- if you guys write something nice about me, i can come back in the summer and talk about...
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white house needed extra help, i would pitch in. white housel-time correspondent, it was for presidents of reagan, bush, and clinton. that president george bush deserves more credit than he got at the time for peerless leadership. two examples. one, the war in iraq, the war after iraq invaded kuwait. we tend to forget now, but at that time, we were very heavily oil.dent on arab if saddam hussein had been able to choke off that oil, that would have had a profound unitedc effect on the states. george bush patiently put together an international coalition, used diplomacy until there was no room for diplomacy, and then went into iraq, kuwait, the theater of operations with overwhelming force. he also had an axis -- an exit strategy. it was textbook presidential leadership. that was followed by the collapse of the soviet union. never before in history has a great empire disintegrated without bloodshed, and yet president bush led us through that crisis as well without a single drop of blood being shed. you cover the white house, you get t
white house needed extra help, i would pitch in. white housel-time correspondent, it was for presidents of reagan, bush, and clinton. that president george bush deserves more credit than he got at the time for peerless leadership. two examples. one, the war in iraq, the war after iraq invaded kuwait. we tend to forget now, but at that time, we were very heavily oil.dent on arab if saddam hussein had been able to choke off that oil, that would have had a profound unitedc effect on the states....
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because 82% of white murder victims are actually killed by white people. yeah.te on white crime, man. that's what that is. you know how else i know this is bull (bleep)? the crime statistics bureau of san francisco doesn't exist. there is no crime statistics bureau of san francisco. it's made up. someone wrote it on the image to make it seem legit. bureau, bureau, hey, bureau. you might as well share crime stats from the dallas unicorn authority, which is also not real because the last unicorn left dallas for austin years ago, long time ago. ( laughter ) it's one thing if your grandmother believes these fake posts, but even a presidential candidate fell for this, people. granted, he's also the same person who fell for the deluxe upgrade package of the tanning salon. ( laughter ) but still, the point is even though it's not checked in any way, 44% of u.s. adults are now getting their news from facebook. and the other 56%, well they just can't remember their password. that's why they don't do it. fake information isn't the biggest problem. what's scarier is facebo
because 82% of white murder victims are actually killed by white people. yeah.te on white crime, man. that's what that is. you know how else i know this is bull (bleep)? the crime statistics bureau of san francisco doesn't exist. there is no crime statistics bureau of san francisco. it's made up. someone wrote it on the image to make it seem legit. bureau, bureau, hey, bureau. you might as well share crime stats from the dallas unicorn authority, which is also not real because the last unicorn...
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soledad: the battle for the white working class vote. i'm soledad o'brien, welcome to "matter of fact." soledad: thanks for joining me. we'll be talking with trump advisor sean spicer in just a few minutes, but first, we're well over a year into the presidential election, and polls show it's a nail-biter. in a statistical tie in four battleground states. and clinton's lead nationally has narrowed. a recent average of all national polls tracked by realclearpolitics shows clinton barely out in front of trump, by 1.5 percentage points. carl cannon is the washington bureau chief of realclearpolitics. nice to have you. before we get too specific numbers, i want to polls in general. receivables are starting to shift toward trump, and clinton is losing some of her lead. is that correlated with pr? is it driven by the news cycle? who wins in a news cycle? who is pummeled by the news cycle? carl: well, this year hasn't been volatile. it feels that way. soledad: i was going to say, it feels very volatile. carl: these candidates are volatile and na
soledad: the battle for the white working class vote. i'm soledad o'brien, welcome to "matter of fact." soledad: thanks for joining me. we'll be talking with trump advisor sean spicer in just a few minutes, but first, we're well over a year into the presidential election, and polls show it's a nail-biter. in a statistical tie in four battleground states. and clinton's lead nationally has narrowed. a recent average of all national polls tracked by realclearpolitics shows clinton barely...
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of white women. the white establishment was so upset at that. the white newspaper that they had an article saying that this person who wrote that should be castrated. when they discovered it was a woman, they burned on the newspaper. so so lynching went on for 70 years. there is a lynching an average of once a week, of racial lynching in the south from the 1876 1955. psychologically a brilliant device to hold black people down. imagine if your black mother. how do you raise your kid? do you raise your child to stand up old and tall or do you stand up bold and tall orgy reason to get off the duck's hat and laura's head. you want him to live you probably did the later. so lynching's went on, the last one was a 1955. and then a 1955. and then in march 1981 and mobile on the. people woke up that morning on there is a body of a black man hanging from a tree. i have to see how this thing is going to work here. this is the body that was hanging from the tree. it was a white neighborhood but black people cam
of white women. the white establishment was so upset at that. the white newspaper that they had an article saying that this person who wrote that should be castrated. when they discovered it was a woman, they burned on the newspaper. so so lynching went on for 70 years. there is a lynching an average of once a week, of racial lynching in the south from the 1876 1955. psychologically a brilliant device to hold black people down. imagine if your black mother. how do you raise your kid? do you...
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of what was around the white house grounds? did you see anything that struck you? .ary: it was quite surrealistic i remember thinking contemporaneously this was like "mad max," one of my favorite scary movies of all time. there were cars abandoned on the street. i was going to try to get home. to go over the bridge over the potomac. i lived in northern virginia. i had a two-year-old and a 5-year-old at the time. trying to get to them. the cabs were abandoned. they did not turn off their motors. the doors were open. i do not know where the smoke was coming from, it could not have possibly have been airborne from the pentagon, but there was a smokiness to the air. , confused.ing it was in chaos so much as much of a really movie set kind of feeling. surrealistic. steve: the issue of trying to get in touch with president bush who was in florida at an education event. we now know he was trying to get back to washington, moving to different air force bases before returning late in the afternoon. the initial hour for you and the vice
of what was around the white house grounds? did you see anything that struck you? .ary: it was quite surrealistic i remember thinking contemporaneously this was like "mad max," one of my favorite scary movies of all time. there were cars abandoned on the street. i was going to try to get home. to go over the bridge over the potomac. i lived in northern virginia. i had a two-year-old and a 5-year-old at the time. trying to get to them. the cabs were abandoned. they did not turn off...
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, the distributors, the booksellers. 79% is white. and that's on my statistics by the way. that's publishers weekly statistics that came out in march of this year. what is more dangerous is that 82% of the editor editorial developments, that decide which books are going to be published, and which distributed, 82% of the editorial departments in this country are white. and in a recent book, we argue -- where there are few african-american curateyearors or even white curators who have knowledge of us by black artists. she says art by people of color is often shown in marginal spaces. as i'm saying about the book stores. one person exhibitions are the preferred method of showing the work of minority artists. as they provide curators a way to avoid engaging with the problems of complicated interlocking histories. is that what the publishing industry and some readers feel? do they fear that books blue black writers will force white readers to engage with problems of america's complicated and interlocking histories of the treatment of black
, the distributors, the booksellers. 79% is white. and that's on my statistics by the way. that's publishers weekly statistics that came out in march of this year. what is more dangerous is that 82% of the editor editorial developments, that decide which books are going to be published, and which distributed, 82% of the editorial departments in this country are white. and in a recent book, we argue -- where there are few african-american curateyearors or even white curators who have knowledge...
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white is for hotter months, dark is for cooler months. white reflects the sun, black absorbs it. plus, in a city with four seasons -- you definitely don't want to wear white in 8 feet of snow. so the take away -- once you go black, you can go back --- to white -- when the summer months hit again. more athletes are with colin kaepernick. u-s soccer star megan rapinoe took a knee during the national anthem.. rather than standing with her team. the olympian says this is the least she can do.. to quote "keep the conversation going". just two weeks ago.. rapinoe came out publicly.. using the moment to make a stand for l-g-b-t equality. seattle seahawk cornerback jeremy lane also joined the movement.. sitting during the national anthem at a game last week. a football team in south carolina is drawing a lot of attention.. but it isn't because of their game play. the picture of this squiggly sideline has gone viral. within hours... it was retweeted more than 4 thousand times. no one has a clue how it got that way but the school district says they will have it fixed by the next home game.
white is for hotter months, dark is for cooler months. white reflects the sun, black absorbs it. plus, in a city with four seasons -- you definitely don't want to wear white in 8 feet of snow. so the take away -- once you go black, you can go back --- to white -- when the summer months hit again. more athletes are with colin kaepernick. u-s soccer star megan rapinoe took a knee during the national anthem.. rather than standing with her team. the olympian says this is the least she can do.. to...
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no, no, the white house says. we have -- we want to do it exactly the way you do it in your garage, staying true to the brand of what wtf represents. and so i think there's several months' worth of back and forth, when is marin's tour going to be on and off, and finally it happens, and marine one flies from pasadena to marin's neighborhood, the secret service blocks off the roads, the motorcade pulls in, and president obama promptly sits down in this cluttered desk with these two microphones, and marin and obama have this hour-long conversation. be some will remember that it was the conversation that made news because the president used the n-word in the context of what he was, he and marin were talking. but if you listen to that hour of conversation talking about the problem of the cities, gun control, foreign policy, obama's own history going back to hawaii and his time at pomona and his college years at columbia and then harvard law school, you emerge from that hour of listening without a single visual of what
no, no, the white house says. we have -- we want to do it exactly the way you do it in your garage, staying true to the brand of what wtf represents. and so i think there's several months' worth of back and forth, when is marin's tour going to be on and off, and finally it happens, and marine one flies from pasadena to marin's neighborhood, the secret service blocks off the roads, the motorcade pulls in, and president obama promptly sits down in this cluttered desk with these two microphones,...
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i think we're going to have to stop paying attention to this off-white -- the white altar white.t is the clan and all that group of people who got that frame of mind, they are taking control over the republican party. control over trump and all of his words that he reads coming from that circuit, so we .ave to be careful that is what hillary was talking about when she said "the basket of deplorables," because those people controlling trump's actions and some of the things that they want to take control of our government, they have, if you check the top people that he has got advising that is who they are connected to. and so that is the carefulness that we have got to be looking for because, like, if we don't check that, everything is going to explode because that is the ku klux klan, that is all of that force coming at us. that is the lowest force in the universe, and we have got to come back at the highest force, which that is what obama brings to it. obama brings, like he says, if they come low, we have got to come high, but we have got to come high with light, light in the da
i think we're going to have to stop paying attention to this off-white -- the white altar white.t is the clan and all that group of people who got that frame of mind, they are taking control over the republican party. control over trump and all of his words that he reads coming from that circuit, so we .ave to be careful that is what hillary was talking about when she said "the basket of deplorables," because those people controlling trump's actions and some of the things that they...
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and protesters gathered outside saying no hate in the white house. if this was an attempt by team trump to improve his bleak polling with black voters, he has a long way to go. a usa today poll shows him with 2% of the black vote and lower share than jill stein and gary johnson. now for your reference, president bush won with 11% of the black vote in 2004. and then the 9% he received in 2000. and the message yesterday was different than the way he addressed audiences in rerecent weeks. how different? quite different. >> want to help you build and rebuild detroit and we can do that. >> half of all detroit residents do not work and cannot work and can't get a job. >> nothing is more sad than when we sideline young black men with unfulfilled potential, tremendous potential. >> you are living in poverty. your schools are no good. you have no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. >> you do right every day by your community and your families. you raise children in the light of god -- >> what the hell do you have to lose. it can't get any worse than what i
and protesters gathered outside saying no hate in the white house. if this was an attempt by team trump to improve his bleak polling with black voters, he has a long way to go. a usa today poll shows him with 2% of the black vote and lower share than jill stein and gary johnson. now for your reference, president bush won with 11% of the black vote in 2004. and then the 9% he received in 2000. and the message yesterday was different than the way he addressed audiences in rerecent weeks. how...
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the white high school. she led a protest with fellow students to walk out and protest the condition of the school. the protest attracted the attention of the naacp in richmond virginia who wasn't interested initially in taking on her case buchlt they did agree to come to farmville and meet with students and parents there. after seeing how dedicated these parents and students were to their cause they told them they would be willing to take on their case. but it was on one condition and that condition was they would seek integration rather than equal facility. in 1950, the naacp changed direction and decided equal facilities were never going to be enough and they knew to speak desegregation in schools and all facets of public life. students who had this core committee who had planned this walk out for months had to take a vote on rather they would agree to go on with what the naacp was asking. according to students there, their decision to go along with this only won by one vote. this case ended up becoming o
the white high school. she led a protest with fellow students to walk out and protest the condition of the school. the protest attracted the attention of the naacp in richmond virginia who wasn't interested initially in taking on her case buchlt they did agree to come to farmville and meet with students and parents there. after seeing how dedicated these parents and students were to their cause they told them they would be willing to take on their case. but it was on one condition and that...
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white. i was talking to a woman, occupy didn't seem like it was for me and when black lives matter, this drew me in, this was about my problems, this is about my life and, you know, you the combination of people that have been in motion of something and new people that are drawn into something that they hadn't been before so there are new people who weren't part of the movements but were saying finally, you know, this is -- this is for me and those people then can see the next thing, whatever that next thing might be. >> mychal, i want to ask you one of the things that interested in black lives matter and racial movement overall is how much of the leadership both in terms of organizational leadership but also energy people, individual humans who were stepping up are young queer people of color and who both in terms of their sexual identity or gender identity are people who in previous eras would have let that part of themselves be in the -- be recessed but different part of the movement and
white. i was talking to a woman, occupy didn't seem like it was for me and when black lives matter, this drew me in, this was about my problems, this is about my life and, you know, you the combination of people that have been in motion of something and new people that are drawn into something that they hadn't been before so there are new people who weren't part of the movements but were saying finally, you know, this is -- this is for me and those people then can see the next thing, whatever...
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same white house job. the same thing here -- this is the part where they are hipocritical. this means that men in the white house have on average a higher ranking job than the women do. >> either way president obama is disappointing. >> why couldn't he give women equal jobs and equal i'm tells. >> super disappointed. super disappointing. >> there is no hope and no change. >> you said hillary does a good job with payee quality. men and women who work on her campaign make the same amount of money. bernie sanders on average -- >> pays women more. >> almost a thousand dollars more than men. >> that's awesome. shame he is not the candidate. >> it is a shame he is not the candidate and i am glad we agree on that. >> i agree with that too. >> at the end of the year he slips you a thousand bucks. here you go, darlin. no problem over here. >> and an extra bagel for you. >> no cream cheese. >> somebody just did an italian bernie sanders. >> that was me. no cream cheese. no gmo's. >> trump junior's skittles tweet. to
same white house job. the same thing here -- this is the part where they are hipocritical. this means that men in the white house have on average a higher ranking job than the women do. >> either way president obama is disappointing. >> why couldn't he give women equal jobs and equal i'm tells. >> super disappointed. super disappointing. >> there is no hope and no change. >> you said hillary does a good job with payee quality. men and women who work on her campaign...
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stabilize any voting majority is the white non-college educated voter, the white working class. now, four years ago, 30% of all voters identified as being part of the white working class. i now that's a large part of the gop base. so what's the best strategy to win over the working class white vote? sean spicer is chief strategist for the republican national committee. he's also advising the trump campaign, and he joins us from city. nice to have you, thanks for being with us. sean: thanks for having me. i appreciate it. soledad: you bet. so trump was in flint, michigan onednesday and he was talking about jobs overseas and polls have shown this is resonating among the white non-college and every time i hear it i thing himself, right? because we know in his businesses he has sent jobs overseas. long, are created china,n houras, in mexico.isn't he beiny hypocritical? sean: well, no, because i think what he is talking about is the policies of the government that reward companies to do that kind of business, not just reward thembut create a tax system and regulatory system that make
stabilize any voting majority is the white non-college educated voter, the white working class. now, four years ago, 30% of all voters identified as being part of the white working class. i now that's a large part of the gop base. so what's the best strategy to win over the working class white vote? sean spicer is chief strategist for the republican national committee. he's also advising the trump campaign, and he joins us from city. nice to have you, thanks for being with us. sean: thanks for...
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i mean, we have black members in the insane, but more white than black. it's more white people. we're -- g.d.s are more our black branch, you know, right there, as far as we are. we're just a branch off of them. brothers with a struggle, you know? we struggle to survive together, and, you know, we're here for each other. me, personally, i don't have too many problems. i haven't that words with nobody since i've been transferred here. it's been more or less peaceful for me. you know, i hang out with a little bit of everybody. a lot of blacks, a lot of whites. you know, i meet in the middle with everybody. >> gerald ritchie, a member of the white supremacist gang, the saxon knights, doesn't believe such harmony between blacks and whites is possible. >> we're two different beings from head to the toe, from root to crown. and we're not compatible. we are not compatible. the only time a white dude is compatible with a black dude in a cell if, a, he's a fag, or, b, he wants to be black. that's the cold, hard truth about it. people are going to watch this on the news and hate me for it
i mean, we have black members in the insane, but more white than black. it's more white people. we're -- g.d.s are more our black branch, you know, right there, as far as we are. we're just a branch off of them. brothers with a struggle, you know? we struggle to survive together, and, you know, we're here for each other. me, personally, i don't have too many problems. i haven't that words with nobody since i've been transferred here. it's been more or less peaceful for me. you know, i hang out...
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his nickname at the white house was the evil crow, it was a joke. but he was intimidated by nixon and he ran into this crew of clowns and they screwed up. they broke into ellsberg's office, made a hash of that then broke into watergate, did other things as well and got caught. they were not criminal masterminds. nixon didn't even know about these break-in attempts, there was some evidence that his top aides there, certainly probably not. the record is a little squiggly on that. but mostly, the point is it wasn't a conspiracy to violate the constitution, it was a bunch of hapless clowns running around to carry out the will of the deeply shy leader. this might be a time to bring crow on stage. but you make it clear to him again and again the phrase gutter politics. we may think of nixon just as a man who was out of touch and had some devious and totally ungoverned stumble bums working for him but you tell the story in a much more sinister way well, they didn't call him tricky dick for nothing and they had called him tricky dick for a long time because
his nickname at the white house was the evil crow, it was a joke. but he was intimidated by nixon and he ran into this crew of clowns and they screwed up. they broke into ellsberg's office, made a hash of that then broke into watergate, did other things as well and got caught. they were not criminal masterminds. nixon didn't even know about these break-in attempts, there was some evidence that his top aides there, certainly probably not. the record is a little squiggly on that. but mostly, the...
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. >> there is black and white and then there is blue and you think anybody that wears blue is white? >> we will show show you ? >> charlie belcher is back to read through our mail. >> they have sat on their ? you can't say that. >> this is money power and politics. well tonight we have good news and bad news for donald trump. we will start with the good news for trump. he clearly won the new cycle this week. he show how he can talk tough on mexico and stand by its leader and commit to working together. he is also gained ground in the polls and may gain more ground after dominating the news this week with a successful foreign trip. but here's the bad news for trump. he's zigzagged along the way and that could cost him down the road. >> where is the softening? i think it's ? >> 11 million people ? >> trump called for mass deportation of all and then suggested that some could pay back taxes and staying then he gave a speech and last night and coulter treated well, this does not sound like softening. go trump. and then today trump said he softening. >> there is softening. look, we would
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his remarks. >> the anger, they hate white people because white people are successful and they are not. yes, it is, it is a welfare state. we have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, but we've put people in bondage so they can't be all that they are capable of being. frankly, i was quoting what they were saying last night that i observed on your network, and their hatred for white people. and that saddens me greatly. >> you believe the protesters hate white people? >> no, sir, that's the comment that they made. i think you go back and look at the tapes, comments that they made on air. >> you mean the protesters made on air? >> yes, sir. i was only trying to convey what they were saying, yet it didn't come out right and i apologize. i have many, many dear friends in the african-american community. >> meanwhile, the chair of donald trump's campaign in an ohio county resigned yesterday after this interview with "the guardian." >> i don't think there was any racism until obama got elected. we never had problems like this, you know? i'm in the real estate industry, there's none. now, you
his remarks. >> the anger, they hate white people because white people are successful and they are not. yes, it is, it is a welfare state. we have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, but we've put people in bondage so they can't be all that they are capable of being. frankly, i was quoting what they were saying last night that i observed on your network, and their hatred for white people. and that saddens me greatly. >> you believe the protesters hate white people? >> no,...
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i believe bill did that white house event is still the largest to date ever held at the white house.yes. >> well, as with all history lessons you never get to the end. [laughter] >> but we will have the great treat of having laura bush and michele obama bring us up-to-date. and the loop has our most and recent first lay dead, barbara bush, clinton, and laura bush, and, o bam marks and you see them in all kinds of situations with the troops. barbara bush, in full camouflage. and pearl earrings. >> this has been wonderful. i think that, having this come to life here is so important because, the presidential libraries are part of the national archives, and administration. the presidential libraries are beginning to understand the importance of the women who were very instrumental in the presidency. thank you and we'll reconvene. [applause] >> you can learn more about presidential spouses, first ladies. each chapter includes photos and a brief biography. you can purchase it, at the retail price of did the 17.9. we go back to the national archives, with a discussion of michele obama, and
i believe bill did that white house event is still the largest to date ever held at the white house.yes. >> well, as with all history lessons you never get to the end. [laughter] >> but we will have the great treat of having laura bush and michele obama bring us up-to-date. and the loop has our most and recent first lay dead, barbara bush, clinton, and laura bush, and, o bam marks and you see them in all kinds of situations with the troops. barbara bush, in full camouflage. and...
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when the white owner told her he had sold it, her son stepped in.nt turned in to a fistfight and james pushed the man through a plate glass window. james and his mother were soon arrested and jailed. that afternoon as people left the segregated balcony of the local theater, they noticed a white mob gathering in the town square. as evening fell rumors of lynching spread and the mob grew. i nthe small black neighborhood called mink slide people shot out the streetlights, locked their doors and posted guards on their roofs. when four policemen walked in to the darkened neighborhood shots rang out and they were injured. the sheriff called for help. the state guard and highway patrol ransacked local businesses, seized arms and beat and arrested more than one hundred african-americans. when it was all over twenty- five were charged with attempted murder of the four policemen. when two defendants tried to escape, they were beaten and died on the way to the blacks-only hospital 40 miles north in nashville. as the case became a cause- celeb, marshall travele
when the white owner told her he had sold it, her son stepped in.nt turned in to a fistfight and james pushed the man through a plate glass window. james and his mother were soon arrested and jailed. that afternoon as people left the segregated balcony of the local theater, they noticed a white mob gathering in the town square. as evening fell rumors of lynching spread and the mob grew. i nthe small black neighborhood called mink slide people shot out the streetlights, locked their doors and...