this is frederick douglass. [applause] this is an 1848. 1848 -- he said no, i will center there because she is my child and she deserves the best education possible. you will not determine for me what i will do for my child, 1848. frederick douglass said eight years later that school system was integrated because frederick douglass put pressure on the school system. one of his models was face it, fight it, fix it. by fighting it, he meant pressure, political pressure, media, news, he was a writer. he put pressure on the system until they changed the decision. the most vulnerable of these are values. >> that's what he did. i appreciate that. i believe you mentioned that in your book. it is appropriate today because this very day, the school choice movement is still happening. we are still trying to fix it. fighting an hour harder hit communities. about 14 active voucher programs in the community are active and 41 states are considering legislation so it is important and very alive. fay said -- face it, fight, and

the question's about frederick douglass and how he changes his support of brown's raid. and he's threaded through the book. he's a major figure in the book. some of the problem with frederick douglass, he's such a great orator and writer that when you go to quote him, you just want to quote the whole speech. it's hard to pull out a quote because he's really one of our greatest orators. but he, um, is one of the first that brown discloses his plan to back in the 1840s, and he really want douglas s' support, and douglass is really struck by this man and his conviction but doesn't think his plan is viable. but they keep up this relationship, and brown stays with him, and brown keeps courting him right up to the end. that summer at the mountain hideout, he meets with douglass in a secret meeting in a quarry in pennsylvania. and wraps his arms around douglass and says come with you, you know, after i strike. the bees will swarm, and i want you to help hive them. and douglass just can't do it. as he puts it, harper's ferry, to him s a trap of steel, and brown and his men are g

tons of police, for like 5 protesters for like 5 who were reading stories and douglass""nd frederick douglass" douglass" police say the problem is... it's state property... and against the law. protesters had orginally planned to sleep out there or 5 days.and althoogh police took down their green tent... and makeshift school... protestors say they'll be backk again today.megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. arrests online ...go to foxx - baltimoreedot com slash... raw news. a traggc story out of washington d-c... an infant dies after being abandonnd on the street. street.the baby girl was found near the steps of this house in the northeast part of the city.she was wrapped only ii a towel ... ann wasn't wearing a diaper orrany clothes.emmanuel dugger was on his way to the store...when he noticed the baby late sunday night. dugger says: 03 "i walked o my father's house to have was seeing and came back out the house with a towel just in case it was a babb. then we unwrapped the chill and realizzd it was a baby." 16 16the baby was rushed to aa hospital ...but later died.she appeared o be just two

wells, or john robin ridge or frederick douglass?ould go on and on, all of these great heroes who stood up, whose papers were burned down, who were jailed. ricardo flores mark cohn, a mexican journalist throughout the southwest, was jailed three times by the federal government on espionage charges and thrown in jail and leavenworth prison where he died because the u.s. government wanted to quash his newspaper because he was constantly condemning the government in mexico and the u.s. government was currying favor with ds. all of these journalists who circulated a free press, the founder of modern china edited newspapers in hawaii and then in san francisco, but who knows about these quotes, where you hear about them and where you learn about these examples of journalism and selfless attempts to educate people and bring greater consciousness. >> joe, who are some of the people who inspired you or who you are surprised to learn about? >> the person i wish i would have met he started a -- in the late 60s. he lived in washington d.c.. he w

you are absolutely right about frederick douglass. he said, you should do nothing with the negro the next question goes to watts, cleaver, clark jr. why wouldn't we as a society want money to follow students of poor parents to the school of their choice, whether that is public, private, nonsectarian, religious, charter, or home schooled? >> you know, i think any of these things in the political of arena, it is no different in politics than a pastor getting up on sunday morning and delivering a sermon and being in an arena where you are competing for the hearts and minds of the people sitting in the audience. and politics gets a little bit nastier than it does on sunday mornings, but be that as it may , it is important, the delivery. who is delivering it? you know, people being engaged, etc. when you look at a lot of the battles that have been fought, for so long, people have been made -- and not just people in the black community, but people in many communities, for so long they have been told that two plus two is seven. and suddenly

this is frederick douglass. this is 1848. 1848. says no, i'm going to send her there because she's my child and she deserves the best education possible, and you are not determining for me what i will do for my child. 1848, so douglass said eight years later, the school system was integrated because douglass put pressure onto school system. one of his model productions is face, it fight it, fix it. face it, fight it, fix t it. >> that's right. >> by fight it, he meant pressure, political pressure, media, news, and he owned two newspapers an put pressure on the system until they changed the decision an changed the most vulnerable values much. face it, fight it, fix it. >> i believe you mentioned that in your book and i think that is appropriate now and even today because this very day, the school choice movement is convening, and so we are still fighting and trying to fix it. the institute for justice is still fighting in our harder hit communities and i think there are 14 active voucher programs in the country and 41 different state

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when of course we'll all be celebrating black history month eve waiting for frederick douglass to come down the chimney and fill our stockings with guilt. but tomorrow is also the deadline for all superpacs to at last file their financial-disclosure reports with the federal election commission. up until now we didn't know who was funding these superpacs. the great day for transparency because tomorrow voters in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida will finally have the vital information that would have been useful before they voted. (laughter) >> stephen: now we, we at colbert superpac have properly filled out all the actual paperwork which we will file at midnight tonight. and post on the colbert superpac web site and which will tell you exactly how much we have raised. i think some people are going to be pleasantly dropping a load in their pants. (laughter) >> stephen: now folks, the filing, this filings also contains the names of every donor who gave us more than $200. great americans like ibin yerkinnoff. larry ballsagna. pat magroin and frumunda maballz. and i just want

amazing there were tons of police, for like 5 protesters for like 5 who were reading stories and frederick douglass" douglass"protesters had orginally planned to sleep out there for 5 days.and although police took down their green tent... they say they'll be back againntoday. a tragic story out of washington d-c... an infant dies after being abandoned on the street. street.the baby girl was found near the steps of this house in the northeast part of the city.she was wrapped only in a towel ... and wasnnt wearing a diaper or any clothes.emmanuel dugger was on his way to the store...when he noticed the baby late sunday night. dugger says: "03 "i walked to somebody with me to see what i was seeing and came back out the house with a towel just in case it was a baby. then we unwrapped the child and realized it was a baby." 16 16the baby was rushed to a hospital ...but later died.she appeared to be just two weeks investigation. a five-year-old is accused of stabbing three people at this home in charlottesville, virrinia.it happened monday afternoon.neighbors say the three victims, one adult and two child

frederick douglass said, sir, i think it was a sacred effort. douglass rethinks lincoln, and by 1864, he -- 1876 he says in washington that he's the white man's president. although in 1865 he said he was the black man's president. a lot of thought and still evolving thought on that whole relationship. >> johnson had been drying because johnson had been ill, and in those days people thought whiskey was medicinal. >> you mean it's not? >> i was setting somebody up to say that. [laughter] >> a note on andrew johnson, the curious psychology on this, i think annette did a wonderful job of that, but to our eye, it's odd because he was only acceptable in the 1864 platform because he was willing to buy into an anti-slavery position. he was against slavery, but the reason he opposed slavery so much is because he believed it gave the aristocrats, the white aristocrats, an unfair advantage, and the window into his psychology is the statement he made that i pray to god that every man should have a slave for then all of us would be equal, so he utterly lacked

washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had fre

let's talk about frederick douglass house. it will be open for people to see as well. >> absolutely. you can always visit it and take a tour. what's really fascinating about this is there is an image that he hung himself in the house. there is one thing you have to he. image of the storming of ft. wagner. this is actually the 54th army regimen and this was a volunteer all-african-american unit fought in the civil war. what's interesting about is it is douglases' would sons was part of the unit and fought in this battle. douglass hung this in the house himself. it is hung in the foyer. it is beautiful to see. >> what an interesting person he must have been. there is a play that just opened recently at the ford's theater involving frederick douglass and abraham lincoln and their relationship. this is the carousel. tell us why that's important to the civil rights movement. >> a lot of people might know that not -- not know the carousel on the national mall has an interesting civil rights history. this was a carousel that came to

if eight slaves picked them equally then how much would each slave pick the other asked if frederick douglass got two beatings per day how many beatings did he get in one week right well there's a deep racist vein in america we see the death penalty troy davis recently young black kid executed by the state because he was black and this is predominant throughout american society but it's not confined to just black people of course i saw something interesting on the news i don't know if you saw the you can look it up you know on the search engine the story of how students in america are now pre-selling twenty years of their income five percent of their income for twenty years to get the money to go to college so it saw slavery for white people and then they've got the heart slavery for the black people well i think actually if we look around the world we will find a lot of different colors yellow orange purple green everybody is a slave unless you're a neo feudal lord and i think that's what part of the thing is that they're just normalizing it and they're making it part of your everyday langua

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frederick douglass said we used to see a little learning from white man. how many of our children have lost his passion for learning? the blackest thing you can be was an educated man or an educated woman in the 1950s and too many of our children don't believe that anymore. that is why i am working with my colleagues at harvard to do a curriculum on genealogy and genetics. you all know my passion for genealogy and genetics. i want to reawaken in our inner-city kids, for inner-city schools, the love of science and its history. how to do that? let's go to history class. imagine we have every child in that class to their family tree. they would go home and interview their mother, their father, come back to school it would have an electronic family tree on a computer that would be the first one. and then makes a good interview their grandparents read some of the stories. it is important to write down every story, even the ones that might not be true. last back how many of you out -- i'm just speaking to african-americans. how many of you out at ancestors of ta

i couldn't find out who frederick douglass was even though i was going to frederick douglass junior high school. [laughter] so somebody whitewashed my history. and i told them if i let you get in the picture right now, i'll be whitewashing history. oh, no, i deserve it, i was with you all the way, we ran track together. i said, oh, do me a favor, open up your shirt. show me the burns on your chest. show me the burns on your neck or pull up your pants leg and let me see the burns. i don't have no burns. i say, absolutely. i say, tommy smith, come up here. pull up your pants leg, let 'em see the burns. open your shirt, turn your neck, let 'em see the burns. i say, you want to see mine? let me show you mine. do you know what the difference is? mr. smith made a total commitment. i didn't make a partial commitment. you made a partial commitment when things got rough, you decided to bail. now things is good in life, you want to come back like society owe you something. you didn't do anything to deserve to be rewarded for anything. but now you want to get in the picture? don't ever let yourself

so they can say -- >> and frederick douglass and others. >> the 1960s or 1980s, then it is the new-fangledgo back to the 1860s, they can play claim to the segregationist past but claim that they were, of course, above the fray. >> but, dick, let me ask you this. when you look at the fact, and i like a lot of ron paul's anti-war stuff, but what has drove me a little -- gotten me a little annoyed is how people are trying to say because he's right on the war we ought to forget about states' rights and what he's saying about israel and a lot of other things. and i think that it is dangerous for us to allow this kind of precedent to be set. and you are there as chair of the democratic party fighting, voter i.d. laws. let's show what will affect in your state of the voter i.d. laws in south carolina affects 239,000 voters, hitting black precincts in the state the hardest, according to the advancement project. this is serious. this is not just rhetoric. they are, in fact, enacting laws that could really impact upon people in your state, particularly black people in your state. >> there's no quest

frederick douglass at least to steal a little learning from the wife and.how many of our children have lost his passion for learning? the blackest thing you could be was an educated man or an educated woman in the 1950s. too many of our children don't believe that anymore. that is why i'm working with my colleagues at harvard, to do a curriculum on genealogy and genetics. you know my passion for genealogy which he and genetics. i went to reawaken and our inner-city kids in inner city schools, the love of science and of history. how did they do that? lakota history class. imagine we had every child in this class to a family tree. they would go home and interview their mother, her father, come back to school would have electronic family trees on their computer and that would be the first one. and then next week they would interview grand parents invite some of the stories. it's important to write down every story, even the ones we know may not be true. how many of you out -- i'm just speaking to the african-americans. how many of y'all have an ancestor with h

frederick douglass said wend have 40 acres and a mule. and then king underscores that that's not like ancient memory. they haven't given us anything. after making our poor parents work and labor for 244 years, and then king says you hear him the jeer, for nothing, didn't pay 'em a cent. and our young black boys and our young white boys are forced to fight together and kill together in brutal solidarity in vietnam, and when they come back home, they can't even live on the same block. a few weeks earlier, and this is just month before his death as he was running across the black belt in the buildup to the poor people's march, king came back to that, and he said, oh, each individual has certain rights. all men are created equal. he says, oh, that's beautiful. america's never lived up to it. the men who wrote that owned slaves. and king then launched a devastating chronicle of the captive black nation. he said, did you know that even before slavery the white man sought to exterminate the indian? racism is very deep. they destroyed indigenous

that has been the fundamental role of the black prophetic tradition from frederick douglass to a. phillip randolph to ida w. wells bar net to ella baker to martin luther king jr. to stevie wonder. i know his music was playing when we came in. [applause] how is it that when these black people who have been terrorized and traumatized and stigmatized for so long, hated for so long keep dishing out all of this love? that's a fundamental question. that's what i love about carl dix. y'all might look at him and see just a communist. i look at him and see a black man who loves poor people and working people, and he's working out his alternative vision, and he's been true to it for the last 45 years. and even if i disagree with x and y, i can keep track of the love. [applause] and that's what we need to do to each and every one of us. because if you have courage, you're going to man some of that love -- fan fest some of that love tied to justice. talk about the middle east the same way. where's the love? our jewish brothers and sisters jumping out of the burning buildings of europe, landin

i am in frederick douglass republican. meaning that i believe in respect for the constitution, respect for life. i believe in limited government and personal responsibility. that is what he advocated and what he talked about. notnot suggesting you do use the word conservative, but make sure you know you are talking to. frederick douglass is the answer of how we can take the message to the black community. his life has to be elevated. that is how we are one to save our community, save this country, and get our country back toward constitutional conservatism. >> i'm going to go to the next question. since congressman jordan is not here yet, going to allow sheriff clark to take his turn and segue from the comment that you just wanted to make. and actually, i want to make a mention about jordan, because when you talk about the republican party, j.c. watts is absolutely right. there is a branding and marketing problem and there is no point -- no excuse at this point. congressman jordan heads up the republican study committee an

when it comes to black history month we have our black people i love them all, frederick douglass and martin luther king, put your head down. she just did. the point is this. we have black people who people don't know who are so important. par la harris in new york. a phenomenal woman. this brother who is a philanthropist, a leader who is phenomenal. st. john, television and radio personality in the 1950s. we should resonate with her. she decided to be a broker. the first black woman to pass the new york stock exchange exam. come john now! give the sister some love. [applause] naomi sims. she was just a model. she was also a phenomenal -- mary ann dragons, black woman on wall street. i list these people because it is important. we don't want to just say we have static figures. we have dynamic human beings we might walk across at the starbucks. that for you, the work you have done around your antecedent is important. it is very important for us to be clear that economic history is the history must love and lift it up. >> i want to close that because i have a disconnect. a believe in ce

caller: do you think frederick douglass was a more important historical figure than king? host: what do you think? caller: i definitely think he was much more important, but i know we're talking about volunteering. maybe we should have a second memorial to frederick douglass on the mall. guest: interesting. i was a history major, but not good enough in my history to rank who is more important or not. host: democrat, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. my name is lucas. and when to get your remarks or comments on this. i have had too much about individual of the, freedom, how our founders said it was life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. i think that is not enough. the currency says, in god we trust. justice for all of it i want you to look in the eye and be honest, is that a true picture of what america was and what america is today? because we see the level of inequality, disparity, the way the black people treat -- [unintelligible] i think that is not enough. people do not recognize the fact that after white people, like hypocrites say, and justice for a

there wasn't for frederick douglass, harriet tubman, william lloyd garrison, so many others that you know what, given all of this raise that's everything, just like in occupying the land, a fork in the road go towards anger, revenge, picardy or goes to a love, justice and equality. that has been a fundamental role of the plot prophetic tradition from frederick douglass toa philip randolph to ida b. wells or penny lou hammond or alice baker two might make king junior, to stevie wonder. i knew it was his plan it was his plan when they came in. how is it that when this by people who have been terrorizing and chama ties and stigmatize for so long, hated for so long keep dishing out all of this love. but the fundamental question or that's what i love about carl dix. you all might look and see just the communists. i see a black man who has poor people and working people in a smirking at his alternative vision and he's been true to it for the last 45 years. even if i disagree, i can keep track of the love that's what we need to do to each and everyone of us because if you have courage comin

i mean, i think of frederick douglass all the time. power concedes nothing without a demand.it never will. and i think that's where we also have to put a great deal of concentration. >> just to be brief, however, of course the reason we have a small apprenticeship office is because it is a coordinating function. it is not a public function. it is a private sector function. the office our partnership is regulations and coordinate what is taking place in the private sector. and, of course, encourage private companies to engage in apprenticeship at the big problem we're having right now, however, is the problem that whether the unions, whatever it is that the unions say, we have an aggregate demand problem. they are are not demands for jobs. and so we come even in our existing apprenticeship programs were having a hard time placing students because you are employed. we have to have the jobs act so we can get people employed, so that apprenticeship can be put on the job. and the president has been very careful to address this issue of equity. we have increased at the department o

the play explores leadership at its most challenging throop to leaders, abraham lincoln and frederick douglass, who pushed one another to envision and shape an america that embodies the declaration that all men are created equal. the audience will be inspired by the humanity of these two men and wider understanding of what they must do, the role they must play to change the country and set an example for the world. when the new center opens, it will provide space for our education initiatives which encourage audiences and especially young people to consider what change they wish to see in the world and to express their visions eloquently. through our in and out a school programs, teachers and students develop their capacity for leadership of all kinds. our leadership seminar for adult learners and historical examples to consider how best to leave today. speak like the president and fellows programs prieta per to etds for teachers and students in washington and around the country using videoconferencing technology to find a variety of ways to lead. i encourage all of you to return to ford's the