federal bureau of narcotics, harry enslinger, have a vendetta against african-americans, hounding louis armstrongom its inception, marijuana prohibition was rooted in racism, steeped in xenophobia, and served no real public health or safety benefit. >> reporter: the passing of the controlled substance act in 1970 classified cannabis as a schedule 1 drug, on the same schedule as heroin. >> this n finasis in terms of the increasing use of drugs. >> that created an incentive for law enforcement to really target communities of color. we've had millions of people arrested for cannabis possession or sale. >> ten years of your life in the middle of your 20s. you miss a lot, man. you miss christmases, birthdays, people die. >> what did you miss? >> everything. everything, just the whole -- man. that's tough. hold up. >> reporter: the pain of lost time never truly goes away. >> man. >> what kept you going? >> oh, my mom. my mom came and saw me at least once a month the whole time. >> going to see him was -- i had to prepare myself. you got 45 minutes. to see him. and they come around, and they tell you "y

so if and when you read the book will see louis armstrong played in the economy haul and he was discoveredin the economy haul. the people came to the economy haul where the first people to take him outside of new orleans. >> host: another question is, did economy haul have members who were enslaved as well as free people of color? >> guest: they did not, they did not. they did not. there were probably a little snooty at number because these people were millionaires or talk about right now. one of them had homes it is lee, france in louisiana. so they did not mix with the enslaved no more than the new york society mix with people in other parts of new york. the other thing it's was against the law. when there was slavery free people of color and the enslaved could not mix. fact the police start attending the meetings i do not want to go into law but there is a fear that the free people would incite slaves to revolt. the father was in the revolution. there's a good reason for them to be afraid. so the police really did not want the free people of color and the enslaved to mix. they would go

so if when you read the book you will see louis armstrong plate in economy hall and he was discoveredn economy hall. the people came to the economy help of the first people to the outside new orleans. >> another question is did economy hall have members who were enslaved as well as free people of color? >> they did not they did not. well they did not. they're probably a little snooty number one. these people were millionaires. i do not in new york society. the second thing anymore important thing is it was against the law. their slavery not undergone too long the free people would incite slaves, the enslaved to revolt smaller than the revolution. as a good good reason for them to be afraid. the police really did not want free people of color and the enslaved to mix. they'll go to jail and the police start attending their meetings in the 1850s. they did not do it. besides the social class think they would also go to jail everybody would go to jail. >> fatima when this is done i urge you to look at the chat and recording we've got granddaughter, other people who know other people. it me

country is sending armed forces into a non-communist country you cannotou stop them by sending louis armstrongover, jena what i mean you cannot use cultural diplomacy for that. you base gupta respond with force with force. i think that the u.s. did not think about that until it was too late. by then we committed ourselves we'd been involved in vietnam since 1954 were there for a long time. we committed ourselves to countering north vietnamese aggression even though they would have it withth force. and we could not get out we do not know how to get out. so the book ends with that 1965 which is on the bombing campaign starts with canons george kennan's testimony before the house senate foreign relations committee in 1966 in which he denounces to the whole vietnam literary adventure. and they ask him, isn't that what containment meant? he said something like that's not what i anticipated or something like that. i felt as a good book and since i begin with it in the first place. henry curry did not want to go to war personal argument was we don't need to bomb them they'll destroyed themselves but