portrayals of black people appeared in songs, books, movies, as enduring american characters like mammy. uncle ben, aunt jemimah. modern examples, while rare, pop up from time to time around halloween. in 2013 julianne hough darkened her skin when she dressed as a black dark from the show "orange is the new black." she apologized on twitter writing, it certainly was never my intention to be disrespectful or demeaning to anyone in any way. i realize my coseotumeple and i apologize." on college campuses, costume parties maybe headlines year after year, the disturbing phenomenon depicted in the 2014 movie "dear white people." and the "real housewives" ross costume. >> something's a little bit off. >> reporter: heen the cast shocked by her choice. >> luann's costume is so disrespectful. >> reporter: nbc's megyn kelly ousted from her show at the network after defending blackface on the air while talking about that diana ross costume. >> she made her skin look darker and people said that was racist. i don't know, i felt like, who doesn't love diana ross? >> reporter: the "today" host went on

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gone are the days of the stereotype, the angry black woman, the mammy, the this, the idiot, the non-thinkingen who voted for hillary clinton -- myself included -- and tried to save the nation from the mess that we are in now, to stacey abrams in georgia who is standing up for democracy, to the 17 african-american women judges elected in harris county in houston, to april ryan, abby phillip, yamiche alcindor, to all of the african-american women, to maxine waters who will become the next chairman of the house financial services committee, black women are the alpha and the omega. >> here we go. okay. top that jennifer rubin. >> that is hard. >> can i get a yay, two, for two that were named. i'm going to give it to nancy pelosi who was demonized by the republicans, who ungrateful democrats tried to kick out. she raised more money than god. she told them to talk about health care and stick with that. that was the winning formula. she will be the first speaker to win twice, sam rayburn from the 1950s was the last one. >> who has an office building named after him. >> and maybe they can get around

maria: joining us right now is oppenheimer funds chief investment officer, krishna mammi. slowdown on the horizon. >> i think the economy today is doing reasonably well. we're probably going to end up somewhere north of 3% for the year. i think the slowdown is already unfolding. so by the middle of next year, we are talking about getting back to close to 2% rather than 3% that we have seen in 2018. maria: do you think the slowdown is based on higher interest rates? the fed left interest rates unchanged yesterday but it looks like we're going to see a rate hike in the month of december. is that what's slowing things down or something else? >> that certainly is slowing things down a tad. i think part of it is because the capital spending cycle that we expected, the capital spending boost never materialized. so for the economy to get to a higher level, we need higher level of productivity. and productivity is improving but not to the level that we need it to be. maria: we talked about this a lot, dagen. the cap ex, when the president rolled back and the congress rolled back a