you have a biracial child in a country that is only just beginning to address such a thing. it really turned her life, i don't know what he life would have been. i think it would not have been a standard housewife in the suburbs, but it really, when you conceive and give birth to a biracial child in 1961, that really changes the whole course of your life, and it happened in a time and a place that was opening up to asia and the world, hawaii, and the east-west center had come to the university of hawaii at the time, and all the energy on that campus at the time had to do with foreign students coming in and the extraordinary ferment occurring between western and foreign students. who knows, maybe this would have happened had she been older, you know, so i've never had a sense of any regret. maybe just because constitutionally that's not what she was inclined to do. she did write a wonderful letter to a friend when she was 30 that i saw. she had been -- gone through her first four years in indonesia, gone back to hawaii with her -- this was in the period after she returned to

a biracial child in a country only beginning to accept that. i don't know what her life would have been it would not have been a standard housewife but when you can see you saying give birth to a biracial child in 1961, that changes the course of your life. it happened in a time and place opening up to asia and the world, why a, east-west center and all the energy on the campus at the time had to do with foreign students and what was happening between the western and the foreign students. who knows? maybe it would have happened had she been older. i never had a sense of any regret. maybe constitutionally she was not inclined. she did write a wonderful letter to a friend when she was 30. she had gone through the first four years in indonesia. the period after she returned to to rejoin barack and had heard daughter with her going to graduate school. she wrote a letter to a friend in seattle and was asking him to give him nth -- give her information about his life. don't hold back lowered knows i have screwed up four really more than once. i asked

she does 17 when she became pregnant, even more remarkable come to have a biracial child in a country is only just beginning to address such a thing. it really turned her life. i don't know what her life would have been. it would not have been a standard housewife in the suburbs, but can you conceive and give birth to a biracial child in 1960 -- 61 that changes the whole course of your life and it happened at a time and in a place that was opening up to asia and the world, how why he and the east-west center who came to the university of hawaii at the time and also a sort of energy on the campus a lot of it had to do with foreign students coming in and the extraordinary ferment that was occurring between western and foreign students. so, who knows. should these kind of things happened had she been altered i never had a sense of any regret. maybe because constitutionally that isn't what she was inclined to. she did write a wonderful letter to a friend when she was 30 that i saw. she had gone through her first four years in indonesia and had gone back to hawaii in the period after she r

caller: i am a biracial male, democrat, and i live in the south. i could not say to you that i would vote again for barack obama. i work in the mortgage industry. he has made it difficult for people to have jobs and get back on their feet and keep their homes. all the plans that he has laid out -- a majority of them have hindered rather than helped. the stern for me was back when the bp oil spill came out. i did not like his reaction. i thought he could have been more reactive in having our military go in and make sure the oil does not reach the coast and caused so much damage. when that happens, i started looking at his leadership skills and they were not impressive at all. host: columbus, georgia. linda? caller: in the south, we are not going to vote for obama again. never. host: why did you vote for him the first time? caller: i did not. host: because? caller: number one, i do not believe he is fair. number two, a lot of people just do not remember this. i remember this. social security and medicare has an overabundance of funds. because they ha

owned there was talk he had children but she has and that her children are raised being moved -- biracial. as somebody who talks about his racial views and other articles do as well. here is a young girl and it is important to mention that with of possibility added of deference to her and out of concern you should paint the picture of burroughs and the time period because he could have been but i don't think when you talk about a person who was a slave owner you have to talk about all of the aspects of that it is not a sense in the comparison to jefferson going back and forth between fathers and daughters and grandchildren and people commented, up one thing people did say is he liked children quite a bit one of the people who was enslaved said he would bounce black children on his me. when dad is interesting and he was able to be childlike but you do not get a sense of being warm and funny% of the rise -- funny% of the rise. >> you may not want to answer or respond but have you ever speculated as to whether a different kind of johnson and could have succeeded too fast they rearrange the o

you know, like whether it be spanish, puerto rican, and all of that... biracial. there's something that is beautiful to me about that. that i never actually thought of the world in that way, so that was definitely one of the reasons why i became an actor. >> hinojosa: hmm. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so i think that when i go back to thinking about the movie the visitor... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...when you put it in kind of a human context, that movie is all about people being open-- open to change, open to difference... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...the character of this white man who basically allows you into his life-- you as a syrian, undocumented immigrant... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...and you are the arab in the movie, and yet you are so open and loving. it really just defies the stereotypes of characters that you've also played. because you've also played arab terrorists. >> once. once, and for satire-- american dreamz, where i was playing... >> hinojosa: what about 24? >> no, i was... that was good, because i was a suspect-- a terrorist suspect-- but at the end o

i know your biracial, but the first black president.be able to say that, the first black president. that is unless you screw up. then it is going to be "what is up with a half white guy?" who voted for the mulatto? i thought when you got into office you would put a swift end to your basketball pickup playing. the first black president, playing basketball. that is one step forward, two steps back. are you any good? i bet you think your game is really nice right now, don't you? you really think you have good moves. come on, nobody is going to give the president of hard foul with the secret service standing there. [laughter] they are just stroking your ego. mr. president, you are really shook me that time. i thought you were going this way and i saw the secret service did this, so i went that way. and the first lady, vehicle as always. you look very nice. -- beautiful as always. how dare you people give her grieve about bearing her arms. the country is broke. slaves cost money sleeves -- cost money.es you have beautiful arms. some of the p

about the president coming to, like reagan and kennedy did -- how the irish will view a black man, a biracialan, claiming to be part irish. host: it is from his mother's side. this is from "politico." caller: wow. that's pretty impressive. we have not traced all of my family that much. i will be watching that. i think it is very interesting form policy. he has authentic business in these countries and the things to work out in the months ahead. host: thank you for the call. you can also join the conversation online at twitter .com/cspanwj. a preview on the president's trip and the business of the trip, which is the g-8 summit. the mideast issues will loom over the trip to europe. host: next is b.j. joining us from annapolis on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. i was recently in croatia. i can tell you the they're all very concerned about the lack of leadership and lack of vision of this administration. people say, why? they say, we lead the world. they are dependent on us. that's their view. many times i've been in europe. they always want to discuss politics. we have done a lot