hinton's case was taken on by attorney brian stevenson.s established that the bullets from the old revolver did not match the bullets from the crime scene. but the state of alabama refused to look at the evidence for another 12 years. after the u.s. supreme court intervened, mr. hinton was exonerated. >> thank you, jesus! thank you, lord! >> so -- still brings back emotions? >> i had always made my mom a promise. that we would be together again. and my mom just couldn't hold on any longer. i didn't get a chance to -- to say good-bye. this is a system that most people would have you believe is broke. the system is not broke. the system run exactly the way it's designed to run. >> when the george floyd video came out, what was your reaction wen you saw it? >> couldn't bear to look at it. it was a new form of lynching. >> you believe capital punishment is? >> i often say, they brought the trees from the outside and brought it on the inside. >> i do not support the death penalty. i would say to people that said, an eye for a eye, tooth for a t

everyone wanted their own jeff hinton. the seat most interestingly with microsoft they wanted theirr own this incredible guy one of the top executives ends up going to montrÉal to get their own. but you had this frenzy. it may happen in other areas soon where the price suddenly skyrockets for the talents. >> engineers for jobson's call? >> still feels we can command a lot of money. because it bleeds into these other areas of driving cars for instance self flying drones which are becoming big. it's an area people are looking at is a change the way we look at technology in the way technology is built. >> anything you left out of the book that you wish and gotten in? >> i often say everything is in there. pretty much is. unfortunately is one anecdote i cannot share sometimes that's the way it works. one anecdote i wish was in there because parallels this whole story a professor at stanford. >> she is in the book. one anecdote people don't realize is really powerful, in order for its and networks to work, we talk about this yo

professor hinton joined us from newark, new jersey.he big picture question is, why does it matter that president joe biden makes this declaration that what happened decades ago was, in fact, a genocide? >> so in one sense, this is absolutely momentous for the victims. but i think more broadly, it's something that's momentous for all of us, you know, in terms of human rights. one of the principles that guides us and guides our countries, it's centered around respect for the dignity of the person. so, if we talk about dignity and respect, that starts with, if lives are lost, massive human rights violations take place, we need to acknowledge, that the descendants need truth, and there needs to be more broadly an acknowledgment that, sort of looking ahead, also is a signal to other potential leaders that this can't be happening. you can engage in a campaign of denial that will, again, sort of perpetuate this. >> sreenivasanthis is at a time when the united states is grappling with the plight of black americans at the hands of police and we

. >>> hinton sidney college professor, matthew hullbert looks and talks about how early films glorifieduse and argues that while recent films show the horrors of the slave trade and resistance by enslaved people, the idea of the white

jeff hinton in his two students that were bought they had in the jeanette lament - - image net is a collectionof photos to build a system to recognize everything in the photos. that was the brainchild. i was talking to her and i talked to her advisor as well. there was a moment between them and said i want to do image net and was betting her career and he said that was not the way to go she should not do it that was not the thing to back her career on and she did it anyway. that's another piece that had to be in place for this kind of thing to work. >> at such a powerful thing for success. >> yes. it is complicated but i wish it was in their. sometimes you make choices for narrative. and for flow. so you make these hard decisions. but again, we need to step back and think about the decision we made. whoever we are to say did i make a mistake there? does that need to go when the next time? host: how quickly did you write the book? >> i wrote it over the course of about two and a half or three years. i made the mistake of agreeing to write a book and joined "the new york times" the same week. ne

>>> hinton sidney college professor, matthew hullbert looks and talks about how early films glorified the lost cause and argues that while recent films show the horrors of the slave trade and resistance by enslaved people, the idea of the white savior is still often central to the narrative. >>> today's speaker, dr. matthew christopher hulbert, he qualifies and is an assistant professor, not too far out of his phd program, but even though he's an up and coming scholar he already published four books, he's authored or edited these four books, two of them are on the subject of film and memory, very appropriate for tonight, and even though it's an unlined event, i brought one of the collection of essays. really, if you are here tonight and interested in slavery on the silver screen, i think you will be interested in this collection of essays as well. so the doctor will speak for about 30, 35 minutes and that's going to leave us plenty of time for discussion. we will wrap things up by about 8:15, so an hour and 15 minutes altogether, and for the discussion i encourage you to ask questions