and as lee later recalled he said "a shade came over robert e. lee's face." and it's shortly after that that robert e. lee decides it is time to leave maryland. and this is where we think that the story of antietam typically ends. lee leaves maryland, gets back into virginia and the armies don't do anything for a while until fredericksburg. but lee's withdrawal from sharpsburg is not even really a withdrawal, it's a change of plans. it becomes known as the williamsport plan. here's lee's idea. september 18 his army will cross starting with his travelry will cross upstream from sharpsburg, swing north as quickly as possible, get a bridge head back into maryland at williamsport when lee is going to then follow behind with his infantry, swing it north, recross the potomac river into maryland and keep the campaign going. lee is simply looking for room to maneuver when he pulls back from his position around sharpsburg. from there what is lee's intention when he gets to hagerstown? here's what he says, one week after the battle of antietam to jefferson davis, when i

robert e. lee at antietam and i thought it would be a straightforward hesitation about a great defense of the civil war. the more i started looking into it i realized that there is a bit more to robert e. lee's defense at antietam than what we have always thought. so as human beings, we are always products of the past. whoistory buffs and people love to study the american civil war we are always reading and looking into what historians before us have said what i will forget to do now is everything you have ever heard about the battle of antietam. not everything because then i have to go from square one but -- close to everything. will look into exactly why does robert e. lee make what many consider to be one of the most controversial decisions of his entire career and what is his plan? why does he not stand there. what is his idea? what is in his mind? i don't pretend to be a mind leeer but if you look at before and after antietam it might be interesting. we will start our story where dr. jordan le

and as lee later recalled he said a shade came over robert e. lee's face. and shortly after that robert e. lee decides it is time to leave maryland. and this is where we think the story of antietam typically ends. and the armies don't do anything for a while until frederic fredericksberg. but lee's withdrawal is not even a withdrawal. it's a change of plans. here's lee's idea. september 18th his army is going to cross starting with his cavalry. we'll cross up stream from sharpsberg, swing north as quickly as possible, gets a bridge head back into maryland and then lee is going to swing by with his infnfry, swing is north, recross into maryland and keep the campaign going. from there what is lee's intention when he gets to haguerstown, here's what he says one week after the battle of anticipatetime to jefferson davis. when i with drew, it was my interest to recross and move into hagerstown, but the condition of the army prevented it. in a military point of view the best move, in my opinion, the army could make was to advance upon hagerstown and endeavor to de

what lee sees in that ridge, and remember, robert e. lee on september 15th is getting the same exact view that george mcclellan is going to have on the battlefield a couple of days later thanks to robs orren f so pointing that out. so what lee sees and likes is not only is it high ground, but the ground is incredibly tricky. and lee knows that he will be able to hide his troops on the other side of that ridge. conceal his troops. use interior lines, as was discussed last night to move troops from one point of the battlefield to another, very quickly with the union commander, george mcclellan being entirely blind to it the other thing lee sees is the landmark for which this battle is named, the antietam creek. some people come to the battlefield today and they say that doesn't look like a creek. that looks like river and other people will say that doesn't look like a creek, it looks like a tiny stream. but in 1862, antietam creek was only crossable in several places and about three to four feet deep on the day of battle. so it was a prett

here's an 1850 portrait of robert e. lee. been in the army for nearly three decades by the time that this portrait was painted. and of course, robert e. lee was very much a student not only of military history, but of history in general. and you can see the quote down here from jomini. "the best thing for an army on the defensive is to know how to take the offensive at a proper time, and to take it." basically, what that quote says, it's talking about one big word that i will toss around a few times throughout this talk -- initiative. robert e. lee is always looking to hold on to the initiative. if he has the initiative, george mcclellan and the union army, or whoever lee is fighting, is going to have to dance to his tune. that's very important for the confederacy. so, lee wants to take the initiative, and he knows from his studies the only way to do that is to take the offensive. a defensive battle is going to do no more for robert e. lee and the army of northern virginia than get a stalemate, a draw. and robert e. lee and th

he's not related to robert e. lee of the confederacy of 150 years ago. >> tucker: but what if he was? the great great grandson of robert e. lee. what we're losing in american life, we only punish people for things they did. we don't punish you because you look like someone else or sound like someone else. we treat people as individuals. >> we treat each person as individual but it's important to consider context, history. that's what we're dealing with here. >> tucker: that was a justification for the interment of the japanese, wasn't it? it's just context because -- >> the japanese american interment is very different. >> tucker: i don't get it. it's context, right? maybe if we stick to principal -- >> in that case, there was no evidence that was there was no espionage or -- >> tucker: this guy behaved badly at the second battle of manassas. do you hear what i'm saying? >> we're in a different realm here. talking about two different things. we're talking about this individual, robert lee, the sports caster and what e

lee believed in white supremacy. because robert e. rong choice more soldiers died in the civil bar on both sides. a less skilled commander of the confederate army would have lost the war sooner for the south. saving lives on both sides. donald trump knows none of this and never will. donald trump and his white house and his presidential campaign are under investigation tonight for among other things collusion with russia. if donald trump is proved to be guilty of collusion with russia to steal the presidency, there won't be any statutes of president trump in this country. but there might still be stat ice of robert e. lee who committed treason and then forced america into its bloodiest war. general lee's troops killed at least 360,000 union soldiers and general lee led about 260,000 confederate soldiers to their deaths. and robert e. lee got away with all this. but he left a legacy that continues to kill americans today. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy all

after all this, he does more than that and i asked him to speak about robert e. lee. robert e. lee on the front lines of battle. let us welcome barton myers. [applause] mr. myers: i want to thank dr. carmichael for letting me speak about one of the greatest battlefield commanders and one of her most controversial american historical figures, robert edward lee of virginia. for the last five years i have been a professor at washington and lee university where robert e lee is very. has become a bit of a cottage industry over the last years for folks. i have dealt with a lot of issues related to lee an historical memory over the last few years. career intarted my the academy i was at the national park service ranger. i live in chancellorsville on the battlefield. i spent a lot of time thinking about robert e. lee. today i want to talk a little bit about lee, one slice of his military career. the moments when he was in the greatest personal danger on the battlefield. had beenobert e. lee commander of the confederate army of northern virginia for precisely 1041 41 days when he of a on

here's mike valero. >> i'm robert e. lee named after his grandfather. >> not the general, but he's a robert e. lee in virginia. we worried how many people share his famous name. within 30 miles of the con federal homes -- what is it robert e. lee today? >> it's easy to get messages, remembered. people when i call and say tell them robert e. lee is calling. >> rob says he doesn't have any haters, but with everything happening today, he is certainly taking time to reflect. >> i understand why lots of people react to that name. it's apart of our past. >> should the monuments go? rob says leave it up to each community. >> unless it's a historic artifact. that's something different. if we're talking about, like, a stone that marks a battle or something that happened some where, but it's just a monument that certain people find doesn't represent the full story, i think they have the right to take it down. i think they should have the right to take it down. >> it made all the noise and fear and fury, robert encourages people to tal

lee chapel today. yes, sir? >> ask for an opinion. was robert e. lee, his personality, his character, who he was, as a person and as a general -- thank you very much. hello? in your opinion was lee by personality, by character would he have been capable of executing the defensive strategy that in the early part of the war had been a matter of discussion among different confederate officials and other generals is all we have to do is not lose this war, in other words adopt a strategy that washington embraced -- >> the fabian strategy of george washington revolution. yeah. i think there's no question if given the option and given the opportunity to execute a plan like that, lee could have executed the plan. you see this at fredericksburg, without a doubt. i think james longstreet, for example, his ideas about strategy mirror that battle consistently. that's the kind of battle longstreet wants to fight over and over again because he knows gives him the greatest chance in a conventional way on a conventional battlefield of winning. it drains the union c

robert lee. a young play-by-play announcer for espn. he was slated to work next weekend's game against the university of virginia and william and merit. >> given the national conversation spurred charlottesville -- the network gave lee the option of working a different game announcer from becoming the bud of jokes. lee accepted that offer and the thing has a lot of people talking tonight. we wanted to know how you feel. >> here's hour question.

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jonathan: the announcer's name is robert lee. not robert e. lee. robert lee.sian american who was switched to a different game. he was an announcer. lynnhill is joining us -- lindsey is joining us. why did this happen? lindsey: according to espn there were behind the scenes talking about it. according to reports the network claims it was making the decision with robert lee and they both agreed it would be best so lee wouldn't become the butt of online jokes but now that is what has happened. look at this tweet. this says espn claims this was about meme but instead they created a category five meme hurricane. small move. even calls them idiots. pitting a picture of robert lee side-by-side. one bern jokes i can rarely tell them apart. and a photo, ro announcing a confederate versus union games. but others are lashing out at espn saying i hope he sues espn and ends up owning them. some think there is more to the story. one man says it's silly and a shame for robert lee but they were trying to avoid memes and jokes. what is the big deal with that? a lot of opinion

robert e. lee'sk you, eric that made us laugh. >>> let's trade this besides the fact that this is such a bizarre decision. i don't get it. >> frankly, to the espn viewer it's somewhat insulting. i have to think to most espn viewers could figure out the difference between the two that being said, i don't think that this is an issue for disney in other words, switching the anchors. they have bigger issues in terms of cord cutting. the may the media industry is being disrupted at this point. disney seems to be holding a base i don't think you bail on disney. >> they approached him lee is a young and new play by play guy what's he going to say the network made the decision. be clear about this. i agree with brian linda cohn, fantastic. huge ranger fan. >> she knows, by the way. >> i would love to be a fly on the wall in the discussion of how they made that discussion. it's insane. it's not affecting disney core disney has problems with espn because of cord cutting. period end of story nothing to do with

look how crazy this is, they reassigned an asian man named robert lee from a robert e. nnection in a football game that nobody would have made a connection to. basically the entire universe out there has said these guys made an awful decision. >> look, the thing is absolutely ridiculous, it would have been a chapter in my book a decade ago because it was exactly what i was shining the spotlight on. >> right. >> i'm just trying to be nuanced and say as idiotic as it was, were they trying to act in his best interest? because they perceived everybody else to be as politically correct as they were? >> that's a great point. i worked on the al gore presidential campaign. i'm a right wing democrat driven insane by what the right wing has become a part of it. this is a part, if you and i had been there, middle of the road guys, right, raised our hand and said, wait a minute, if we do this, let's think about the worst case insay are know, if we allow this guy to call the game then for 45 minutes or an hour, nobody for 45 minutes or an hour, maybe somebody takes a screen shot, mak

reuters, the wire service, for example, referred to robert lee as, quote, the namesake of the generalh it's pretty unlikely one was named after the other. later corrected to say lee is the doppelganger even dumber since they don't lookalike. meanwhile america got a little less free in the process. broke the story on fox sports. he calls the network mxespn. hshe worked there until earlier this year and says she was fired for having conservative views. both of them join us tonight. so, clay, first to you. you broke this story. espn racketed in some greater detail today and said this had nothing to do with political correctness and nothing to do with race. am i missing something or is that just like a lie? >> it's a lie. espn lies a lot. tucker you know this having covered politic force a long time. when you put out an initial statement and then you have to follow it with another statement and then you have to follow it with a third statement, what you're realizing is that everybody is calling you on your b.s. and you are continuing to follow it with more bs and so by the time you get to

in its midst, monument avenue, statues of civil war heroes robert. leen davis, and stonewall jackson stand the mayor of richmond thinks the statues in virginia' down. instead, he says they need additionl context. >> the story is at best an equal pas myth and deception. it's our responsibility to set the recordt today. soledad: two two weeks ago, the city added snt it erected a 10-foot bronze statue of maggie walker, an african american woman and da spanned the journey from laundress to newspaper publis founder, civil rights leader, and mother. the statue stands at the cent of town, about a mile from it's the first monument on a city street in richmond dedicated to a woman. mayor stoney was at the de. he has appointed a commission of historians, authors and community leaders to figure out how to set the historical record of the confederacy straight either by adding statues or diane roberts reports. diane: monument avenue is the land work for residents. historian,tural author, and member ommis we do'r t happen. but we need to interpret it for and leave the

cases you're not, but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. this week it's robert e. lee. i notice stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder, is it george washington the next week? and thomas jefferson the week after? you really have to ask yourself, where does it stop. george washington was a slave owner. was george washington a slave owner? will george washington now lose his status? >> reporter: the president's words today echo what he said saturday, when he blamed many sides for hatred, bigotry and violence, not condemning then the white supremacists and neo-nazis who participated in the weekend rally. he did denounce them explicitly monday, but today -- >> you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists, okay? and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. >> reporter: the president said he never spoke with his controversial chief strategist, steve bannon, about his original statement this weekend. >> i like him. he's a good man. he is not a racist, i can tell you that. he's a good person. he actually

his name is robert lee, very similar to the confederate general robert e lee who is a statue helped sparkence in charlottesville. espn issued a statement last night. "we collectively made the decision with robert to switch games as the tragic events of charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. in that moment, it felt right to all parties." this is not about political correctness, rather it was more about wanting to avoid possibly embarrassing that announcer. a much different take on the fox sports radio host who forced broke the story. >> it's a sign of how ridiculous and absurd this idea has become that they made the decision that it was the right move to do this, as opposed to just allowing people to think he's probably not a robert e lee ancestor given the fact that he's an asian guy and also, it's been 150 some odd years since robert e lee died. it's probably time we can get over it for a football game. >> dagen: here's my strategy. every time i go and starbucks in order my cappuccino, i'm giving them the name stonewall jackson, just so they yell i

they are not protecting robert lee. they want to act like they are altruistic, looking out for this guy. i don't think that's the case. i think they're worried that if they were going to face criticism, it was going to be another sad round of publicity. that actually happened anyway because of how they had it. all day long, everyone was putting up a picture of robert lee, such a nice guy. poor thing. on and on. and now people are making fun of espn. saying they have no compass. it's whether or not it might be bad press for them. not about what the right thing to do is. >> brian: what about bob lee, why did he escape? why would they try to protect him from a meme? >> kimberly: it was the shortened name. >> kimberly: i hate it when cable network gets bad controversy. hey, dana, doesn't this reveal the difference between the perception of possible outrage and real outrage? we operate, the media, we are constantly worried about what we are going to say. >> dana: i self at it. >> greg: you have a filthy mind. >> dana: i thin

. >> anyone named robert lee. >> i don't know that i pay attention to announcer's lane i could not careless. >> what interesting bigwigs at espn said this didn't come from corporate. this was just people in charm of broadcasting game assignments they made this random silly decision and makes no sense. >> it doesn't. >> it's getting him a lot of attention but it's dumb decision because it has you. >> take a real issue you get people who think the whole pulling down monuments is non issue you give them a flash foypt leach on to to say this is why we need to go the other way with political corre correctness. >> what do you do now put him back on the game. >> i would. i would be like my bad put him back we were wrong. anyway, much more to talk about i'm sure as the morning progresses, thank you holly for that. coming up on "fox news morning". less than 50% of maryland students do well on assessment tests. >> and the biggest storied rivalry is headed back to bethesda. >> 78 degrees already my goodness. hot day on top. cooler than yesterday. 443 is the time. keel be back after this this

i have encountered probably hundreds of robert lee's, and no one associates robert lee with robert e virginia, and hear people talk about robert e lee, i've never heard a single virginian referred to the general has anything other than robert e lee. it boggles the mind how espn management could not know their history and also have such disdain for their viewers that they think that they are going to be confused about whether confederate general who died in 1870 is somehow related to the guy broadcasting this game. >> shannon: i'm trying not to laugh because this is underlying a serious conversation and subject, but have we gotten so ridiculously fragile that things like this happen? people think it's not unusual. >> i would like to see robert lee announced the game, but i would also like to know robert lee's version of the story because i know i saw the statement from espn, but i also saw some emails that came out unnamed sources that espn that said it was actually mr. lee's decision. i think there's some confusion here. when the facts emerge, i think it's going to be nothing at the e

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robert e. lee, a lot has been said about robert e. lee and it's kind of a shame. robert e. lee i think was a man of integrity, a great leader, great general. he was not a traitor to his country. he was a defender of virginia. and you have to understand the context of the times. and yes, he was a slave owner, and that is irreconcilable. but robert e. lee released his slaves before he died. and the men who were -- lost their lives in the north are buried in mrs. lee's garden across the river from here in arlington national cemetery. that's where robert e. lee -- that was his home and now is a cemetery. so i think we have to see all of these things in context. i do completely agree with the charlottesville city council decision to remove this statue, because it's -- robert e. lee had nothing to do with charlottesville. he wasn't born there. there was no great battle there that he was a part of. it was put in out of context of the times, and so we have to remove it. but we do have to think about what our history is, and what it is, and as a country how we overcame these great ad

many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e lee. this week, it's robert e. lee. i noticed stonewall jackson is coming down. i wonder if it's george washington next week or thomas jefferson the week after. you have to ask yourself where does it stop? they were there to protest -- take a look him of the night before, they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. >> should that statue of robert e lee stay up? sentrump: i would say that to a local town, community, or the federal government, depending on where it is located. do you think things have gotten worse or better since you have taken office. >> i think they have gotten better. they have been frayed for a long time. you can ask president obama about it because he made speeches about it. i believe the fact i brought in it will be soon millions of jobs. you see where companies are moving back to our country. that's going to have a tremendous, positive impact on race relations. we have companies coming back into our country. we have foxconn in wisconsin j

supremacists. >> they were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, robert e. lee. this week it's robert e. lee. i noticed stone wall jackson is coming down. is i george washington next week and thomas jefferson the week after? we do have to ask, where does it stop? you're changing history. i'm not talking about the flee over nazis and the white supremacists. but there were many others. >> and wait, there's more. this is how the president of the united states described the events of friday night. when white nationalists holding tiki torches marched. >> there were people in that rally. if you look, there were people protesting, very quietly. he the taking down of the statue of robert e. lee. >> now, trump play seen a group of people protesting quietly but what is the the rest of us saw. [ chanting ] >> the president's performance today left the political world in utter shock and apparently his aides as well. lawmakers in both parties were rushing to distance themselves. but former kkk grand wizard david duke was delighted, tweeting, thank you, president trump, for y

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robert e. lee, they know the institution of slavery is doomed. they don't know how to get out of it. wade hampton's family has 2,000 slaves. and wade hampton doesn't like slavery, he knows it's over. but the bank holds his paper. he's actually broke except for the slaves. and his father was considered the richest man in the south. he was on paper but not really. so there were all these turbulent turbulent dilemmas. london, the center of civilization at that point, london begins the 1860s as the grimy, dirty cholera ridden city of charles tickedickens decades. people think call raw is caused pie infected water. when you have these mass quick expansion of the armies in the very beginning of the war, of course you hire some doctors who weren't very good, and they get fired. but the german theory of disease is already being discussed among some of the better educated doctors. a doctor made an elementary discovery. he realized if a fever, after dissecting a corpse to find out what killed her, he washed

this broadcaster in question, robert lee, he is not a decedent of general robert e lee. t named after general robert e lee. he's a veteran asian american broadcaster who a lot of people look up to for the role he's played in college football for years. the nonstop. one of the people who has been talking about is from espn's rival network, fox sports 1 clay travis and he summed up what he sees is the danger not only in this instance but for others that may be coming down the line. . >> i think this is kind of an indictment of espn in general. because what you need in this situation is somebody to be a reasonable person and say, wait a minute. do we really think that the average viewer is going to make the connection between an agg guy calling a gam and the former leader of army of northern virginia in the confederate army? do we really think this is a political statement we're making? this makes it a bigger story than it ever would have been. >> reporter: to a lot of people, that is the key issue here. now, the decision was this. robert lee was supposed to call the footbal

move to do this as opposed to just allowing people out there to think this guy is probably not a robert e leer given he is an asian guy and there has been 150 some years since robert e lee died. it is probably time to get over it for a football game. >> lee will instead announce the panthers game, the cavaliers will be announced weekly. i didn't make it up. heather: before we went to bed i thought it was fake, this has to be fake but it is real. it is a shame it is a conversation. rob: thanks. heather: what do you think? did espn go too far? send your comments on facebook, twitter or email at foxfriends first@foxnews.com. rob: supporters of colin kaepernick rally on the doorstep of roger goodell in new york city, former members of new york city police department joining colin kaepernick's protests of racial inequality. the former san francisco 49ers is without a job after going out on another contract following his national anthem protest, roger goodell says teams are making their individual evaluations on this. patty: 1 group's rally, george foreman taking a different direction throwing jabs

knig assembled at the park under the statue of robert e. lee. times that number, more than 1,000 people, turned out in opposition to the klan. arrested when they refused police orders to disperse. charlottesville mayor, michael signer, talk to me about the leadership challenges presented nice to talk with you. i was surprised to read that your reaction is that you want to keep the statues. often o protest over statues, the city mayor will say let's take the why was this your position sir? mayor signer: there was a protest that kicked this off statues one to robert e. lee. my instinct at the very was that we needed to cast the problem more broadly and talk about race in our public spaces. we created a blue ribbon wi changing the narrative by telling the full story of race in charlottesville through our incredibly difficult thing to do. we've got dozens of l that touch on race in one way or another including things we needed to do that that we ha there were 17 public hearings held by this 9 member commission which at the outset was majority on the

robert e. lee works diligently to be the best at everything he does. when he falls in love with mary cusstas he still hasn't gotten it. her father doesn't want her to marry robert e. lee. they're white trash. his father should have been a jailbird. but mary cusstis sticks to her guns. they get married. and later on when old man cusstis dies he leaves bad debts. lee builds himself up to be the perfect officer, the perfect gentleman. he has never remotely faithless to his wife but he loves to flirt. he's a handsohandsome. he loves to flirt, he loves to dance. but at the end of the day he goes home with mary. she gives him a fair amount of leash at the parties because she knows he's going to behave. but the war comes. robert e. lee, who's built himself up. he's made himself this man he is and he's idolized because he starts winning. he gives the southeast great victories. by the way, to use another modern team, by the time he's lea marching on the road to gettysburg, he's drunk his own kool-aid. by the end of the war because of his personal pride, he canno

and it would never occur to donald trump that's the difference between george washington and robert e. lee. >> robert e. lee's a loser. so i'm surprised he likes him. a noble loser. he keeps talking about the idea of removing confederate statues will lead to the removal of statues of some of america's most cherished founding fathers and that's a slippery slope that he seems to believe because what he doesn't understand and what many americans don't understand if you look at the history of naziism in germany, in germany every elementary school kid has to visit a place where the holocaust took place, right? it's a culture of remembrance, rather than memorials of people who were the opresser. >> and let's say we're going to have a statue of jefferson davis and robert e. lee and we're supposed to walk by these statues. they were created to be beautiful and uplifting. the idea is small people in particular are supposed to think that's what we should have done. those things were built not to make people feel bad, they were built to make people feel good. of course trump doesn't understand there'

"if this society can't tell the difference from robert e. lee from 150 years ago to an asian sportscaster, robert lee, we are in espn sat around at an office somewhere and made this decision." "i can barely tell them apart." espn did release a statement madeg, "collectively, espn the decision to switch games with robert as the tragic events of charlottesville were unfolding. in that moment, it felt right." from albany, new york, a part-time sportscaster. this game would not even air on tv. it was to be broadcast online. now they have this pr nightmare at espn. in the newsroom, i'm sam sweeney. back to you upstairs. melanie: a video posted by the nypd sergeant's union is under attack after it claims officers suffer from what it calls "blue racism." the officers are victims of violence in luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech. many took the social media saying "being a cop is not a race, it's a choice." the union is standing by the video. the admiral in charge of the navy costs seventh fleet -- navy's seventh fleet based in japan has been remo

they were there to protest the taking down of the statute of robert e. lee. infrastructure question. >> should the statue of robert e. lee stay up? president trump: that depends on the local town of community or the federal government, depending on where it is. >> race relations -- do you think things have gotten worse or better since you have taken office? president trump: they have been better. they have been frayed for a long time, and you can ask president obama about that because he makes speeches about that, but i believe the fact that i brought in -- it will be soon -- millions of jobs. you see where companies are moving back into our country. i think that will have a tremendous, positive impact on race relations. we have companies coming back into our country. he had two companies that was just announced. foxconn in wisconsin. we have many companies pouring back into the country. i think this will have a huge, positive impact on race relations. you know why? it is jobs. what people want now is jobs. they want good jobs with good pay. when you watch our