he was biracial. there were black people that owned slaves but it was rare. white slave owners were trying to create this narrative of white freedom and black slavery. black slave owners disrupted that binary. >> was the white owning, black slaves universal almost? was it not just in the u.s. bought everywhere? to a certain extent but then of course there was, like talked about in the panel, native americ americans that enslaved black people and even in african-american there was a history of slavery. but slavery changed with capitalism and began to shift in a different way in which the slave labor became a product or more or less commodity and people became very rich off that and wanted to defend it with racist ideas. >> host: there is another david calling in. this one from arlington, virginia. >> caller: i had a question about indian slavery. well, i think i can -- i was wondering at what point in america, what became the united states, the english colonies, did it become blacks could be slaves, blacks were supposed to be slaves but whites, we had plenty o

she is a free woman, biracial, and has to be talked into working at the white house. roosevelt had johnson's food while traveling around and went to colonel mason's case. when benjamin harrison becomes president roosevelt recommends johnson. she comes to work but there is one problem. there is a french woman who had that job. this very french cook had two very american responses. she filled a lawsuit and went to the press. this is the first time that a staffer sues the president and gets resolved. she talked about working for the harrisons but dolly johnson gets the job and is celebrated in headlines all across the country. she is one of the few examples of a took who leaves the white house and trade on her own name to establish a second career. you don't see that a lot with african-americans. >> host: it sounds like they don't disparage her as much. i have a whole different perspective on that but they tried to disparage us and put us down but it sounds like they talked about her like a human being. >> guest: somewhat. they dwell on her looks a lot so you feel like i

french colony and what history did and one of the things that i share in the text is because with a biracial people in the louisiana and this group of people that resisted racism along the larger population to free back -- black people but some of them look upon themselves as superior to black people so some of the reinforce the notion that black people are inferior people said they were superior to them but it was happening across the nation. >> host: mentioning author and professor for he has done the in depth program tied been his name you can see three hours of and discussing his ideas with us. ibram kendi author of "stamped from the beginning" winter of 2016 national book award booktv coverage of tucson festival of books continues here at the university of arizona up next day panel on the history of women in the sciences. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of books. we wished to think cops communication for sponsoring this venules -- been used in the college of science. the presentation will last

. ♪ at the harvest >> an unexpected voice from an unexpected package. 24-year-old biracial georgia-bornr kane brown is covered in tattoos and has his ears and eyebrows pierc pierced, and, ladies love those eyes and, of course, those abs. but the way kane found fame is by posting videos of himself singing in the bathroom on facebook. >> i put it on facebook. went to sleep. woke up, check my phone and i had like 800 phone requests. then 700 more. of that week passed i ended up with like 200,000 followers. >> you're still going to work at fedex. >> yeah. i'm not at work any more. i'm just on my phone going, like, what's going on? >> and your boss? >> he's actually a fan. ♪ the only way i know i can get you off my mind ♪ >> now with more than 3 million social media followers, kane quit fedex in 2015 to follow his dreams. pretty inspiring for the boy raised by a single mom and his grandma. >> life wasn't easy for you growing up. even at some point you and your >> we didn't have anywhere to stay. s ♪ the way you knew >> kane's album debuted at number one in the billboard top country album's c

what made this constitutional convention interesting was that for the very first time, you had a biracial contingent. the suffrage had been extended to black men in virginia as a consequence of the civil war. there had been an election on among the white and black male voters of virginia to decide, should we hold a constitutional convention and create a new constitution to get virginia back into the union? largely on the power of the newly enfranchised black vote, that question carried in the it was possible then for white and black men to choose delegates to come to this room and craft a new constitution. there were 140 people -- 104 people who sat in this chamber, 24 were african-americans. once they finished their handiwork on a new constitution, 10 of those african-american delegates went on to be elected for service either in the house or senate of the virginia legislator. it was all over the newspapers. you had a full range of opinion on what was happening but the results are important and indisputable. when the constitution was submitted to congress, it was approved and in january

. >> it's true. ( laughter ) it's just-- it happens to a lot of people but it's a kind of funny biracial. this was in a magazine. that's a picture of me, right? >> so you say. >> trevor: well, that's a picture of me. but in the magazine they said, "jesse williams." >> i'm look grate great. ( laughter ) kind of like the way you look. >> trevor: why were they-- do you get that a lot? >> i get it all the time. i get a whole range of "i look like any person-- tony parker, alex rodriguez. it doesn't matter. you're that guy. you're one of those guys. i love it. big fan. big fanof the thing you do. >> trevor: the thing you all do together. >> yeah. >> trevor: the thing. >> you know. >> trevor: you know. >> you know what happened to me once? i was walking across 9th avenue and somebody said,"hey, great george don lemon." >> wow. >> trevor: and i was like, "go to hell, asshole." >> it's odd to address somebody by their full name as well, "terrific job trevor noah." are you confirming >> trevor: it's a thing that people do. but you know what i'm enjoying that you're door, you love comedy. >> i do.

. >> it's true. ( laughter ) it's just-- it happens to a lot of people but it's a kind of funny biracial. this was in a magazine. that's a picture of me, right? >> so you say. >> trevor: well, that's a picture of me. but in the magazine they said, "jesse williams." >> i'm look grate great. ( laughter ) kind of like the way you look. >> trevor: why were they-- do you get that a lot? >> i get it all the time. i get a whole range of "i look like any person-- tony parker, alex rodriguez. it doesn't matter. you're that guy. you're one of those guys. i love it. big fan. big fanof the thing you do. >> trevor: the thing you all do together. >> yeah. >> trevor: the thing. >> you know. >> trevor: you know. >> you know what happened to me once? i was walking across 9th avenue and somebody said,"hey, great george don lemon." >> wow. >> trevor: and i was like, "go to hell, asshole." >> it's odd to address somebody by their full name as well, "terrific job trevor noah." are you confirming >> trevor: it's a thing that people do. but you know what i'm enjoying that you're door, you love comedy. >> i do.

comments, teachers overlooked it, and administrators failed to act in a district where black and biracials make up just 6% of the population. mack says on the field, kids used racial slurs. and in class, they called him the n-word. evan: and i would say, "could we please not do that?" liz: around campus, he noticed the confederate flag on clothing and cars. a former classmate posted this picture on social media. and in the locker room, he says he once overheard some teammates singing this david allan coe song. ♪ decent could girl ever -- a greasy -- ♪ liz: he tells us the language happened within earshot of school staff, but no one intervened. evan: it was the kind of thing that you didn't talk about for one, or that if you did talk about it, that no one really even cared. liz: mack kept quiet for 2 years, until he showed his parents these online exchanges with two students. raquel mack: just because you're a -- and think like that doesn't mean i do, and i will punch you in the -- mouth. liz: raquel and john mack brought the threats to the west sonoma county union high school district. of

on the other hand, biracial democratic government, the thing unknown in american history, for the first time functioned effectively in many parts of the south. school systems were established and legal codes were purged of racism. the conservative oligarchy that dominated colonial government found itself largely excluded from political power while those who had previously been outsiders, poor white southerners, men from the north, and former slaves, cast ballots, sat on juries, and enacted and administer laws. the effect on african-americans was strikingly visible. the traditional leaders opposed the new southern governments, denouncing them as corrupt, inefficient, embodying wartime to feet and -- to feet and black supremacy. the most basic reasons for opposition to reconstruction, however, was most white southerners could not accept the idea of former slaves of voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law. they had always regarded blacks as an inferior race whose proper place was as dependent laborers. reconstruction, they believed, had to be overthrown to restore whit

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story there was a lot of debate among the scholars in his race but quite a few believed that he was biracial and have a heritage. i showed the cook for george washingtogeorgewashington but ad successfully at the birthday. >> host: he escaped before him and i was curious if this was inspired by the other. she escapes a few years before and what is interesting is that as a portrait hanginit's a porta museum in madrid spain. it is the same that did the iconic portrait of washington and what is interesting about the portrait is the outfit that hercules has is one that would be worn by eight european chef, not an american chef at the time. knowinhow vindictive george washington was coming u read the letters of the reaction at the extent they try to get hercules after he escaped and you think that song from frozen, let it go it makes sense that he goes overseas because that is probably the safest thing for him to do. >> he actually made money selling scraps. there are stories and facts and history that are a concern. but he was such a great cook this piece about the scraps, what was that about? >>

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>> he's a biracial child. >> what we tried to do is incorporate lessons through my parents, obviouslyry to incorporate that into the jeter children books. we try to do that with diverse characters and interesting stories. these are issues that kids are facing nowadays. it's front and center. you really can't shy away from it. >> and bullying. >> it makes me wonder if you were buddied, derek, or tim? >> i think everyone is bullied. honestly i think a lot of people bully themselves in a small way. you know, the thing about books is when kids read, they get smarter. they perform better in school. but most importantly, when kids read, they get a little kinder because they put themselves in someone else's shoes. so that's why i think it's important that our characters are a little different. >> but you have a baseball star who's in book and dart jeter and i wonder who wrote this parks. you're a baseball genius and derek jeter's were warm. >> i told you i was bullied. i tried to stay out of it. >> but there's also lessons about the character saying i don't like to go to the park without a b

. >> he also used african-american troops to march through the carolinas and demonstrated a biracial union army. >> he didn't like it. >> he didn't like it but he used it. he was practical. >> sherman as you know lived in the south before the civil war and he understood as some northerners didn't the -- that this was going to be a gigantic war and it would not be very easy to defeat the confederacy. there were many people at the beginning, one battle and that'll be it. you know, you read what he said about the march. you've got to whip, get into the recesses of their mind and make them fear us and all this kind of thing. sherman was not a politician. i think, you know, unlike grant he didn't quite understand the importance of the civilian control of the military so to speak. he was pretty deeply racist. i think that's clear. you know, i don't think he actually had a heck of a lot to say about reconstruction later on. wasn't he fighting indians much of the time in the west? harold: well, the 40 acres and the mule thing. >> that was january, 1865. that was important and obviously becau

>> biracial child. >> well, for us it's important -- what we've tried to do is incorporate the lessons've learned through my parents, obviously my sister and i, and who will we teach our kids to do our foundationings. we incorporate that into the jeter children's books. and we tried to do that with diverse characters and interesting stories. and these are issues that kids are facing nowadays. it's front and center. you can't shy away. >> and bullying now. it's a whole different thing. >> i think everyone is bullied and -- >> i wondered about that. >> honestly probably a lot of people bully themselves in a small way. you know, the thing about books is, when kids read, they get smarter. they perform better in school. but most importantly, kids read, they get a little kinder. ,,,,,,, >>> welcome to cbs this morning saturday, i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm alex wagner. coming up this hour, the president tries to rally all the republicans to support a house gop plan on health care. but his work is cut out for him. we'll talk with the man who knows that battle well. >>> then as we get ready f