up next, baylor university history professor robert elder confederacy advocate, john calhoun from blue bicycle books in charleston, south carolina, this is aboutut an hour. john: i am jonathan and i am with blue bicycle books and really excited about this book. came out about a year ago and reach out too the publisher and so were going to do an event on this. i am john calhoun.. only up a of blocks away from calhoun street. and we put in for this book, there was a lot of statutes governing over that street and there is no longer anything there so it's definitely be a man is been in the news. he's coming writing for over hundred 50 years . the focus of his foresail and i number of you have already purchased and thank you so much for imparted and think of her holding up bob. it's a fantastic and it's coming to us from baylor university today in the midst of a very intense storm and record-settin winter storm. any and be good people of the postal service have gone to great lengths to find these books and we and they made their way back to austin now. so you get a kind of book. and again i

john c. calhoun is not here because he defended the southern states. during the civil war. we talk about those generals, all over this place. john c. calhoun died in 1850. more than a decade before the civil war started. so why is he here? why is south carolina -- why did south carolina send this statue up here for us to honor. simply because he was this nation's foremost proponent of slavery. so much so until yale university from which he graduated took his name off the college that they celebrated him with. princeton university, he was one of the founders of, took his name off of its honors college. charleston, south carolina, where he is buried, took his statue down overnight. people went to bed around 11:00 at night look at the statue and got up at 6:00 the next morning, it was gone. because south carolina has done everything they can to get beyond those principles advocated by john c. calhoun. but his statue is here. i want to thank the speaker for moving that statue someplace out of the eyesight of any school child coming up here. this hall, america's classroom. we oug

john calhoun, the intellectual father of the confederacy, the man who wants famously said, slavery was not a necessary evil. a quote, a positive good. and yes, the filibuster was used for lots of different things. in lots of places. but one of its core central uses was by a southern white senators, to block anti-lynching bills in the twenties and thirties. and bills targeting employment housing discrimination in the forties and fifties. and blot silva wrightsville after civil rights bill. earlier i read a column condemning the use of the filibuster. you know who said that? market luther king junior. here he is, decrying the filibuster as essentially a tool of white supremacy in 1963. e >> the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators, who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they won't let the majority senators vote. certainly, they wouldn't want the majority of people to vote. because they know they do not represent the majority of american people. >> wild to hear that. right? statement is just as tru

the person who just figured out what would become the modern filibuster was john calhoun.lhoun, the intellectual father of the confederacy, the man who said slavery was not a necessary evil but, quote, a positive good. yes, the filibuster was use for lots of different things lots of places, but one of its core central uses was by southern white senators to block anti-lynching bills and to block civil rights bills. earlier i read a quote condemning the use of the filibuster to block voting rights. you know who said that? martin luther king, jr. here he is decrying the filibuster as a tool of white supremacy in 1963. >> the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. they won't let the majority senators vote. suddenly they wouldn't want the majority people to vote because they know they do not represent the majority of the american people. >> wild to hear that, right? the statement is just as true now as it was 58 years ago. everything old is new again.

a personality like john c calhoun, the initial thing that drew me, started to figure out parts of him that you can see through the chinks in the armor especially when he wouldespete to his children. incredibly warm, overindulgent father, what you couldn't see in his argument, the darker aspects of the character. and is a very difficult figure and have vastly different reactions during his lifetime, some people find him charming and unfailingly polite, harriet martin, giving the idea of demonic possession more than calhoun did come his utter certainty was unnerving. >> my fading memory, actually not been the subject of all that much biographical literature. charles wilson begged the 3 volumes that people .2, there are two others but the field seems more or less open. overly propitious for re-examination. >> >> it is an opportunity to write a book like this. and people begin connecting issues of racial justice. and there are some activists who write, protests at yale university, the historian's job is to explain the path to the present so when i saw that happening, what is out there on

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john c. calhoun is not here because he defended the southern states. during the civil war. we talk about those generals, all over this place. john c. calhoun died in 1850. more than a decade before the civil war started. so why is he here? why is south carolina -- why did south carolina send this statue up here for us to honor. simply because he was this nation's foremost proponent of slavery. so much so until yale university from which he graduated took his name off the college that they celebrated him with. princeton university, he was one of the founders of, took his name off of its honors college. charleston, south carolina, where he is buried, took his statue down overnight. people went to bed around 11:00 at night look at the statue and got up at 6:00 the next morning, it was gone. because south carolina has done everything they can to get beyond those principles advocated by john c. calhoun. but his statue is here. i want to thank the speaker for moving that statue someplace out of the eyesight of any school child coming up here. this hall, america's classroom. we oug

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i was a fellow at yale, named after senator john c calhoun from the early 19th century who was a racist was a racist a few years ago so they changed the name of calhoun college where i was a calhoun fellow and you know, i quit. i quit because it was so gratuitous. it was so -- they were so politically correct and to launch this person and then attempt to cover it up. it's never the crime, it's always a cover up and i say that, i have a beautiful third-year law student at yale, my daughter, i'm very proud of the association but this woman is -- >> greg: it is how many mines has she touched that ends up in your human resources department or in public relations and the goal without question to create a race war. this language is not about uniting a country, it's about splitting it and making sure that it ends violently, can you imagine having her, you know, she has patients. it can you imagine if she was your analyst? she's actually talking about her white patients publicly, not using their names but lumping them in and describing them as guilt-ridden, bread-rejecting freaks which when you

it calls for the removal of about a dozen statues including slavery supporter john calhoun and confederateef justice roger taney who wrote a notorious pro-slavery decision d be removed. a similar bill failed in the senate last year before joe biden became president and democrats took control of the senate. >>> now we have a story this a glimpse into the future. if you want to skip over traffic, and who doesn't, this car may be for you. a prototype of this flying car logged its first 35-minute flight between two airports in slovakia this week. the inventor says it hit a cruising speed of about 106 miles per hour. it can reach heights of about 8,200 feet. think that's cool? check this out. it can transform from an aircraft into a car in two minutes and 15 seconds. the prototype took two years to build. the pricing to --usun >>wow.in. skipng over trfic, a says new york has the worst traffic, that we spend more time sitting in traffic. but it's still -- it scares me, but it's cool. it's worth the $2.4 million price tag. who can afford that? >> nobody can. obviously if they start manufacturing

in the 1840s, before it was even called a filibuster, john c. calhoun of south carolina used it to preserve slavery. in 1922, an anti-lynching bill was defeated by a filibuster led by southern democrats. in 1957, senator strom thurmond took to the floor to filibuster the civil rights act. speaking for a record 24 hours and 18 minutes. in 1864 the longest filibuster in senate history, 60 days. almost derailed the civil landmark civil rights act. 1963, jesse helms finally blocked his filibuster trying to block the bill declaring martin luther king day a federal holiday. that, ladies and gentlemen, is the filibuster. is it the side of history that you want to be on? is it really worth more than voting rights for millions of americans? let's remember what the former president barack obama said about that at the funeral of john lewis when he called the filibuster a jim crow relic. >> and if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another jim crow relic, in order to secure the god-given rights of every american, then that's what we should do. >> i want you