blacker blacker blackberries don't work. i met a group of young women all working in the political realm who are pro democracy and were all on facebook. i'm told they represent t the .002% who are on facebook. i continuldn't get my internet and running there. the past year with burma, we've seen the profound change i have to believe has a lot to do with how the state department has done this, but it happened without that. it happened without -- >> without technology. >> yeah. >> well, it's exactly what mike said. you know, i think -- i remember i had someone say to me iri ought to honor the founder of facebook. i was kind of like, why? well, because it was so important in the arab revolutions. exactly what mike said. this isn't about facebook and twitter. it's about the fire in people's hearts. the fire can be expressed through facebook and twitter and amplified through facebook and twitter, but facebook and twitter are no more responsible for the arab spring than the machine was for solidarity in the 1980s. it's a mechanism

they're black, blacker and blackest. and everybody laughed. a lot of gavel banging. that tells you something about a person. there are certain -- there's a certain kind of performance that people engage in, and at the same time you can get a -- you can see people when they're very vulnerable and you can develop a remarkable portrait of a person. it's also a starting off point. it just gives you so many different kinds of leads. what's really amazed me is the -- the kind of story that this is. it's a story that people tried to cover up as it was happening. you know, the trial transcript really helps. and then there are over the last ten years there's been just this amazing proliferation of historical and gene logical material available on the internet. i learned communing with the dead is that the secrets that people take to their graves. the secrets of the ages are no match for ancestry.com. and our databases and databases that lead me to manuscript collections. so, you know, from that trial transcript in 1910, from the trial transcript in 1859, you know, i was able

to prince george's county i believe it's the only jurisdiction in the country that got richer and blacker really, really careful about this. i am very liberal and want there to be equality, but we need to make sure that is exactly, you know, when we discuss that. that's what we talk about. watching this turn with marion barry, most people know him as the mayor that smoked crack, that's how he's known. he is something much more than a nationalest borderline racist. watching him to go into this rhetoric where he is talking about preserving his own political power. that's his ultimate goal. >> at a certain level, it's always about that. >> a little better than this at one point. >> i looked back. first of all, wanting to keep a city black, it's not, it's not a proper goal. it's not a moral goal. washington, d.c., has been fondly known for so many years as chocolate city, but because it's predominantly african-americans and also because there are large numbers of african-americans who live in the city that are highly educated that are doing very, very well. they're raising their children. the