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christopher columbus set off in search of gold silver silks and spices he was also looking for a western sea route to india he sailed under a spanish flag the aim was to get there before spain's rival portugal. but instead of reaching india columbus made landfall in what is now the bahamas he named the inhabitants indians it was 1492 columbus had accidentally discovered the americas on the heels of columbus came violent conquistadores disease war and misery francisco pizarro defeated the incas driven by greed for gold and naked ambition but not all pioneers murdered pillaged proselytized or exploited natural resources some of them have made crucial contributions to human progress for more than 400 years seafarer is sort of navigable route between asia and america in 1003 roald amundsen led the 1st expedition to traverse the northwest passage pioneering spirit has helped usher in new eras in 859 business men edwin l. drake became the 1st american to successfully drill for oil which became the fuel of industrialization but that same pioneering spirit has also heard an environmental impact

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of discovery, you know, research is about as close as we can come to getting the feeling of christopher columbus if we're trest ral. if we're astronauts, thats another matter. but everybody can feel that thrill of discovery. when you look for something and you actually find it. now 50 other people may have seen brit before you. but they were not looking for it because it wasn't important to them. but if it's important to you -- i don't know how to else to describe it except eureka moments. i've been lucky to have dozens of them over the years. i went looking for something and lo and behold something i never expected was there was even better. you know, it's the going, not the getting there that is good in a way. the search or the quest can be very exciting. and black studies universally has certainly been open up widely. it's still a field that remains wide open. one example i'll give you. something i've been tempted to get at. you heard of the underground railroad. it was also something you didn't have a name. i call it the underground telegraph. how did news get from plantation to plantation.

you know research is about as close as we can come to getting the feeling of christopher columbus thus if we're terrificestal. we're astronauts that's another matter. but everybody can feel that thrill of discovery, when you are looking for something and actually find it. 50 other people may have seen it before you but they weren't looking for it because it wasn't important to them. if it's important to you, i don't know how else to describe it except eureka moments i've been lucky enough to have dozens over the year. went looking and lo-and-behold found something better. it's the going, the getting there, the search, the quest can be very exciting and black studies universally remains wide open. one example i've been attempting to get at for years don't know if i can. you all heard of the underground rail road. i call it the underground telegraph. how did news get from plantation to plantation. how did the enslave in mississippi in time learn what was happening with the enslave in alabama or georgia? somehow word got around, even as restrictive as the planetation system was there's a

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that's like going back to christopher columbus.ion. that is true. 180 trump news days. what about the comments that we had from joe biden in last 25 hours, that he suspects that somehow donald trump will try and postpone the election date in november. we should stress that obviously, that is a power that congress has for some they will decide whether he gets postpone or not. it is there a they are in democratic circles that he might try and to? how would you hold an election in the current climate anyway? is after me? yeah, i think, you have to put everything on the table with president trump. anything that you think he's not willing to do you have to assume that he's willing to do. and we wake every morning in america we say ok so what happened last night that we need to be aghast of. and there were conditions we say it will never be aghast again but now we've got chewable clorox meme tablets going around on the internet. so anything that you think that he's not capable of doing, get that off the table. so if you think that that w

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into mount rush more, wisconsin -- pushing the story further back in time others described christopher columbus a puritan of new england the cavaliers of new england and virginia as free enterprise serves. this is what is called an invented tradition. although the modern free enterprise political vision merch shortly before 1932 it coalesce in opposition to the new deal order that his presidency initiated. just as the new deal coalition was jerry rigged a tense units of a true night do not want to suggest today that they all have the exact same ideas i think their ideas berry, their mission varied but they were united by the idea of this term held a key in opposing what they took to be the biggest dangers of these new deals what united free enterprise service was a deep suspicion of the new deal. not only is this set of policies but as a dangerous philosophy on a spectrum within various forces of fascism and communism that was gaining popularity in europe. free enterprise components invoked a binary language in which they figured the new deal as a sip id form of totalitarianism or what nixon ca

pushing the story further back in time others described as christopher columbus, purr tans of new england, cavaliers of virginia and maryland as free enterprisers. this, my friend is what historians call an inventive tradition. although the modern free enterprise political vision emerged shortly before the election of franklin roosevelt in 192, the term was widely popularized. as the new deal coalition was gerry rigged, the same is true of those who brought it free enterprise and i don't want to suggest they all had the exact same ideas. i think their ideas varied. their mission varied. but they were united by the idea that this term held a key in posing what they took be the biggest dangers of the new deal. what united free enterprisers was a deep suspicion of the new deal not only as a set of policies but as a dangerous philosophy on a spectrum with nefarious forces ever as s of communism. opponent of the new deal invoked the binary political language in which they figured the new deal as a form of totalarianism or what richard knicks concalled in 1950 the same old socialist baloney no