she doesn't fit the normal slave narrative story and what happened to her.another 20th century writer wrote his memoirs as an old man, around 1913 when he wrote the story so he had been a child as a slave in urban charleston, and he had an edge to him. he wrote one of his lines with many people talk to the better side of slavery and how you can view it, but the only good thing about it as far as i'm concerned is the emancipation proclamation. he had an edge to him and a man i would have liked to have known. they all spoke to me. >> what do you hope readers will learn from this book? >> oh, i hope they learn to get rid of their expectations, i think. the voices were hard. the 18th century narrative, these are two individuals who spoke about slavery, indeed, about their lives as conscribed under slavery, but they also define their lives as slaves to sin. their memoirs are also about religious awakening and the freedom they found through their spiritual awakening, and that doesn't fit what you think a slave narrative should be about, but yet i respect it and le

>> we were looking, my research team and i, we were looking for out of print narratives, narratives which weren't largely known as all. and also narratives which might be known, but known as south carolinaian. but for example, boston kings is one the 18th century slaves. he's known in british abolitionist circles and transatlantic connections. he was from south carolina and defected to british line. then went to canada, to nova scotcia and africa. people like that. we had a collection of seven people that weren't well known, or known at other contacts. for the first time ever, we could bring them back into print and put them together to see the connections between more coherent narrative of what the story of south carolina slavery was like. >> what were the major scened included in the recollection? >> well, there were both small and big themes. there was small patterns. three of the seven people were child's jockeys. two of the seven individuals actually were slaves to confederate forces in fort sumter and carolinas. they were not confederates, but slaves to the confederate forces. there

narrative nonfiction is difficult enough. during narrative nonfiction with the first-person narrator. in other words, putting yourself in the story. was that unnecessary choice, our tourist? what problems does it raise for you in the construction of a book like this? the narrative nonfiction in the first person is relatively rare in the genre. >> that was a multi part question, and i have trouble with multi-party questions. i'm going to just go with the first part of your question. i just want to say thank you so much. thank you for having a work in progress award. thank you so much. such a great affirmation. i fully expected to have a small audience for this book and to receive this kind of award from these organizations is such encouragement to continue one. thank you. thank you. thank you. first, the decision to go first person is very difficult. it is a vulnerable topic to begin with. to write it in the first person, i felt like i have a five month old ball retriever to relax ticket on his back and just open up his legs.

narrative or argument. here's the argument, by the end of the first trimester, they have brain waves, five fingers, operational heart or fingerprint. and yet each year, 1.6 billion abortions are performed. 91% of those are performed in the first trimester. now here's an anti-abortion narrative. jane was 16 years old. she got pregnant by her boyfriend, she was pretty, smart, and she knew that having this baa by was going to ruin her life. she started asking her friends, family members, and they encouraged her to go ahead do it. prompted by the people, she drove to the abortion clinic. she thought it was no big deal. as she walked into the clinic, something odd happened. another girl looked at her and said all babies want to be born. she ignored her. your baby had a heart. she thought this was propaganda. your baby has fingernails. that was odd. she walked into the abortion clinic and sat down. she glanced around and couldn't help that everyone was playing with their fingernails. tapping them, she thought fin

>> we were looking, um, my research team and i were looking for out of print narratives, narratives which weren't largely known, and also narratives which might be known but weren't known in south carolina. boston kings is one of the 18th century slaves, he's known in british abolitionist circles, he's been identified with transatlantic connections, but he actually was from south carolina and defected to british lines during the american revolution, then went to canada and nova scotia and then to africa where he ended up writing his memoir. so including him as a south carolinian was a new way to conceive of his history. so people like that. we had a collection of seven people that weren't well known or known in other contexts and for the first time ever we could bring them back into print and put them together and see the connections between the more coherent narrative of what the story of south carolina slavery was like. >> and what were the major theme included in the reflections? >> well, um, there were both small and big themes. there were small patterns. three of the seven people wer

narrative nonfiction is difficult enough.ou are doing narrative nonfiction with a first-person narrator. in other words, putting yourself in the story. is that a necessary choice, a hard choice and what problems does it raise for you in the construction of a book like this because the narrative nonfiction in the first person is relatively rare in the stronach. >> taylor, does the multipart question and i had trouble with multipart questions. i'm just going to go with the first part of your question. first of all, i just want to stay thank you so much to columbia university nieman foundation, thank you for having a work in progress the word. thank you so much. such a great affirmation. i fully expected to have a small audience for this book and to receive this kind of award from these organizations is such -- such encouragement for me to continue on. so thank you, thank you, thank you. as far as the decision to go the first person is difficult because, as a vulnerable topic to begin with and if you read it in the first 10, i f

many columns kind of giving all managed to this mythical centrist voter i think it's a valuable narrative when you're trying to push unpopular policies if you look right now we see this kind of mainstream media narrative again and again that this standoff is a result of both parties intransigence both parties bases not accepting compromise the reality is that when you look at the polling on issues that are you know at play right now protecting medicare protecting social security. not extending the bush tax cuts for the chop one percent earners of the earners there these are these are how the decisions that have rod broad support among the american electorate when you look at how those things poll among republican voters they polled well so this is really an entrenched you know minority saying we need to slash these popular programs or else we're not going to raise the debt limit and i think that there's a tendency among you know mainstream media reporters to try to balance these are articles that they're writing so they say that you know it's both sides are pandering to their base because

done and it seems that the obama administration has to some extent really embrace this idea this narrative and it is moving to the right as you mentioned the proposal that he has put on the table is to the right of even republican voters what they want to see done to raise the debt limit you know order to capture this elusive center in the two thousand and twelve election but problem is that political scientist i'm told is for many many years that the reality is that while a lot of people call themselves independents the vast vast majority of them are not truly independent the favor of one or the other party to a very great degree and the key point is that they their political preferences are pieces. to the party space to those who call themselves democrats and republicans so now we see a different composition in any given election as democratic leaning independents china out in your great. numbers or republican leaning independents turn out better numbers this is this elusive mystical centrist voter doesn't really exist now you know part of the mythology behind that joshua was i think eme

commissioner wynns: in the narrative. it does not make clear to people that it is one of the major cuts we made and we are not proposing to add it back. by having no reference there, in the budget pages, in the exhibits, you see that cut. the reason you see it is because last year's line is in there as well. those are significant budget- cutting strategies which i hope we will not be doing any more, but we know we will. a thing by leaving those out in some places we are leaving out a vital piece of information. i do want to talk a little bit and ask some questions about the special education budget, some of the same questions i asked last week. again, by my numbers, a little repetitious -- as i understand it, what we are talking about is increasing the general fund support to special education by $8.40 million. i would kind of like to know why. we discussed this at the committee as a whole, but i do think for budget purposes i want to know what we are spending that on. i think we should, for the public and ourselves, take

narratives matter. we have fought into the trap of thinking that intellectual argument tends to trump emotion. you hear it on talk radio. we have all the facts on our side, but they just rely on a motion all the time. because it works. we need to start taking that fight back. that's the power of narrative. that was from the movie juno. hollywood which is achieved foremost political tool of the left, totally run by liberals at this point, discriminate against conservatives, scorn traditional american values and to use television in particular as a tool of propaganda in order to achieve their political ends. they use the narrative to push their point of view. they are very clever. they recognize if they slide their messaging and it's much more effective. so they create characters that we like and we want to spend time with their it has to be well written but it has to be based on character. it has to be based on people. on average we are watching two-three hours of television a night. it's more time you'r

commissioner wynns: in the narrative. it does not make clear to people that it is one of the major cuts we made and we are not proposing to add it back. by having no reference there

commissioner wynns: in the narrative. it does not make clear to people that it is one of the major cuts we made and we are not proposing to add it back. by having no reference there, in the budget pages, in the exhibits, you see that cut. the reason you see it is because last year's line is in there as well.

commissioner wynns: in the narrative. it does not make clear to people that it is one of the major cuts we made and we are not proposing to add it back. by having no reference there, in the budget pages, in the exhibits, you see that cut. the reason you see it is because last year's line is in there as well. those are significant budget- cutting strategies which i hope we will not be doing any more, but we know we will. a thing by leaving those out in some places we are leaving out

is that a good narrative for as? >> i think we want to look at broad-based but also specific local law-enforcement. again as i talked about before, boots on the groundwork. >> we thank you for your work. my question is as a law-enforcement officer, as the as the chief he would be as concerned about domestic-based terrorism meaning a native or an american that might need in an extremist, white extremist group. that would be as challenging as possibly another type of group. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> the record show to my knowledge we did not have a hearing in this committee on those kinds of groups and i have evidence that they are as dangerous as any might be. the difficulty with these hearings as it may provide information but it may provoke unnecessarily individual communities that are trying to do their best. the chairman is my friend. i would also like to say this is such a poor time for this hearing. if you want to know about the devastation of a nation, these are the innocent somalis who are fleein

and the answer was what silence it was uncommon in the media before because this does not fit the narrative since the nine hundred ninety nine need for what russian against yugoslavia which was we are conducting these wars not for geopolitical control and domination of monopolization and mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they can using the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. now at some other top stories from around the world the sound computer hackers have reportedly cracked and they terms internet security system and access to restricted data the group according themselves are enormous thanks to the tweet and then to restrict it to document contains information on the advances operations in the balkans the only movement is known to be sympathetic to wiki leaks and its founder julian assange is already at the websites of major companies and government agen

and the answer was what silence it was uncovered in the media before because this does not fit the narrative since the nine hundred ninety nine nato aggression against yugoslavia which was we are conducting these wars not for geopolitical control and domination of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. without some other top stories from around the world this hour computer hackers have reportedly cracked nato's internet security system access to restricted data the group calling themselves none of us posted a tweet with a fall break into into restricted documents is believed to contain information of the advances operations in the balkans the breach is in response to the recent arrest of twenty one people use of cyber hacking the movement is known to be sympathetic to wiki leaks and it's found in the songs an

it is all of the narratives in the front. i do recommend to people that they read the whole narrative if they want to understand the budget. it is extremely helpful. but i think that the number pages are less -- we can still improve on them. let's put it that way. again, i would like to see the department of budgets tell me actually what we do. obviously, i understand this is transferred directly. we need to know how many fte's we are spending to each department. but that does not tell us or the public what they are doing with the money, and i think we need that. as well, i think we need the ability, maybe in selective ways, to compare the budget last year to the proposed budget for this year. we are spending a lot of time going like this. almost no one else is looking at the budget either online or in printed form with both books or in front of them were both budgets available. i realize that i -- it is almost impossible unless you spend all your time doing it to know what the numbers are and where that may be significant. i

domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. there are some other stories from around the world this hour computer hackers have reportedly cracked internet security system access to restrict to date. the group calling themselves anonymous points to the tweet with a file name they take restricted documents is believed to contain information on the allowances operations in the balkans so the breach is in response to the recent arrest of twenty one people accused of cyber hacking enormous move into his move to be sympathetic to wiki leaks founder julian assange launch already attacks the websites of major companies and government agencies. dozens of people have protested in front of the japanese anderson south korea dancing to pounce claiming that now adam's instances happened and rece

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domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. well there were all there around the clock but you can always find more stories on our website at aussie dot com here's some of what we've prepared for you there today russia is pumping up its military might to truly thankful tanks and jets complete with robin liss sun shines through contention. and breathtaking pictures of russian performing incredible stunts you spotted. in the gallery in full on our web sites on healthy. fish. fish fish fish . specialists have started raising the sunken passenger ship belgariad from the bottom of the volga river in russia's central republic of tons of stone it went down in minutes almost two weeks ago drowning one hundred fourteen people the complex operation involves partially refloating the vessel pu

and suddenly that whole narrative which is that we're living through the fourth world war, that world history for the next 20, 30 years will is all going to be about the battle with islamist terrorism t doesn't seem to be quite like that any more. >> stephen: what is the battle? where is the fourth world war? >> i'm not sure. let's hope there isn't the fourth world war but what i do think, i have an account in this book of a very extraordinary meeting with george w bush in the early summer of 2001. don't look like that. >> stephen: hi an extraordinary meeting with him too once. but go ahead. >> i want to hear about that. >> stephen: yes. >> but the thing about that meeting, it was two hours before his first official trip to europe. islamism, islam hardly featured. for him the whole story was about the great political rivalry with china. and in a curious way ten years later, we're sort of back at that other story about the great rivalry with

. >> how did you selected the narrative in the book? >> we were looking at narrative is.hat was known as south carolinian is. he is known in british abolitionist circles and been identified in trans-atlantic connections but was from south carolina and defected to the british line during the revolution and then went to canada and nova scotia and africa and so people like that a collection of those people then to put it together to see the connections. >> then what do see? >> 38 of those people were jockeys and two of the seven individuals where slaves to confederate forces in the coastal war of the carolinas. they were slaves to the confederate forces. but the bigger connection is we are glad to escape with slavery all firmly identify themselves with their relationship to where they are from but they would not let someone take that away from them. they would not -- not identified themselves as african. but the rest of them distinctly wanted to claim of part of history at and that was the most powerful of the 20th century from the people's network. >> which story resonates

domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. ok so all the stores around the world that used to have told me naysayers internet security system and assess risk to data the group calling themselves a normal space to a tweet with the fall label they say restricted the documents believed to contain information on the alliance's operations in the balkans it's all the breaches in response to the recent arrest. accused of cyber hacking the anonymous movement is known to be sympathetic to wiki leaks and its founder julian the songs and has already attacked the web sites of major companies and government agencies. forty one people have perished in a bus fire at the central chinese a province of had nine six passengers including the driver being treated for serious injuries the vehicle carry

their answer was what silence it was uncommon in the media before because this does not fit the narrative since the one nine hundred ninety nine nato aggression against yugoslavia which was we are conducting these wars not for geopolitical control and domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people who are conducting all the atrocities they accuse him of gadhafi side of conducting but i think the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative . well there we're all around the clock but you can always find more stories on our web site at www dot com here's some of what we've prepared for you to this day russia is pumping up its military right neutrally basement ranks and jets complete with problem missoni it's nice to meet contention in. trying to direct taking pictures of russian cossacks performing incredible stunts. and going to be in full on our web sites on a thing. which if. specialists have started raising the sunken p

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domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people who are conducting all the atrocities they accuse him of gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative . without some other top stories from around the world this hour computer hackers reportedly cracked his internet security system accessed with data a group calling themselves none of us posted tweet fall into restricted committees to contain information allowances operations in the balkans is that the breach is in response to the recent arrest of twenty one people use of cyber hacking. bonus and sympathetic. and it's found. and there's already a taps the websites of major companies and government agencies. people affected by last year's earthquake and tsunami in chile have clashed with police in your forty's are going to build devastated areas to the protestors living in temporary camps shelters since the powerful tsunami swept away

domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative of . norway's capital all slow has been hit by a powerful explosion in the very center of the city and all sides of parliamentary buildings are preliminary records suggest that it was a car bomb the prime minister is said to be safe however at least eight people have reportedly been injured police have started evacuating surrounding buildings and extensive damage has been reported including to the prime minister's office we'll of course bring you more on this story as we get it. looking at now from these pictures now with getting from a norwegian where scientists will of course try to bring your information and move clarifications to what's actually happening in oslo as we get it just to tell you what is happening we know that the norwegia

and the answer was what silence it was uncovered in the media before because this does not fit the narrative since the nine hundred ninety nine nato aggression against yugoslavia which was we are conducting these wars not for geopolitical control and domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how could it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting a lynching black people who are conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative at all i think it's time now to some other stories around the world. called macy's internet security system and assess risk. the group are calling themselves anonymous space in a tweet with a filed late they say restricted documents believed to contain information on the alliance operations of republicans it's all in response to the recent arrests. decide backing the anonymous movement is named if you can get it to wiki leaks and its counter g.-d. the songs and has already attacked the

domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they cues in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. happening elsewhere in the wilds today amateur video has been released to pull through the show in the central syrian city of homs under time from security forces survey say government choose to fire regime gardens and dragging people from their homes in a series of arrests it calms us down over that once again taking to the streets nationwide despite increased security levels police killed thirty two can cross the country last friday during the largest protest since the absent government authorized began in march. overloaded a double decker bus which bus into flames in china has killed forty one people on board six all those who managed to escape were taken to hospital with one said to be in a critical condition is still on the clearwater

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domination of monopolization of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people who are conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative at all. also making headlines around the world the u.s. has announced it will send aid to famine hit somalia but only if the shore deliveries won't be hindered as they pass through his mist militant controlled areas the u.s. declared a state of famine in southern somalia when the four million people were in danger of starvation a devastating drought caused the crossing of the worst to hit the region decades it's estimated the stricken country needs one of the half billion u.s. dollars in aid. for elma kenyans have been given legal permission by a judge in london the british government over alleged atrocities committed during colonial times a claim it's alleged there were systematically abused and special camps set up to crush the rebe

we seed the narrative. look what he did with social security and veterans threats injuries the fact of the matter remains if we don't defeat this president we don't get to take this healthcare bill off the backs of the american people. that is what is at stake here. >> sean: i understand the dilemma you are in. let me throw another narrative at you. harry reid says not going to happen, dead an on arrival. say this is the republican bill we didn't want it. we get the downgrade which is coming anyway from s&p and moody's and they say the republicans put us in this position. in essence aren't you in a box either way? >> we certainly are and again, i don't get to sit at the leadership table. i was grateful last week when leader boehner, speaker boehner said we are bringing this back down to the capitol, we pass the legislation and the president decides what he wants to sign. regular order is your friend in this situation. this debate should have always been at the capitol, always been at the committee rooms and

domination of mccloy's ational mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people who are conducting all the atrocities they cues in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative of. to you now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. has announced it will send aid to famine stricken somalia only if it's assured deliveries won't be hindered as they pass through islamism militant controlled areas the un has declared a state of famine in southern somalia where nearly four million people are in danger of starving the devastation and drought the devastating drought has caused the crisis said to be the worst hit the region in decades and it's estimated this stricken country needs more than one of the have a billion dollars in aid. for elderly kenyans have been given the go ahead to to sue the british government over alleged atrocities committed during the colonial times claimants allege they w

domination of mccloy's ational mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative of. i think all the top stories were around the wall and. purportedly crocked nato's internet security system and that access restricted data the group calling themselves anonymous posted a tweet to the far labeled nato restricted the document is believed to contain information on the alliances operations in the balkans it's still the regions in response to the recent arrests of twenty one people accused of cyber hacking you know most people just need to be sympathetic to wiki leaks and its founder julian the songs and is already at the websites of major companies and government agencies . forty one people have perished in the central chinese province of six passengers exuding the driver being treated to serious injuries the vehicle carryi

and the answer was what silence it was uncovered in the media before because this does not fit the narrative since the nine hundred ninety nine nato aggression against yugoslavia which was we are conducting these wars not for geopolitical control and domination of mineral wealth but for humanitarian reasons so how can it fit the narrative of these rebels which nato and the nato countries are supporting lynching black people or conducting all the atrocities they accuse in the gadhafi side of conducting but actually the rebels are conducting these things so it doesn't fit the narrative. let's take a look at some of the main news headlines now tonight the u.s. will announce it will send aid to famine hit somalia but only if we showed that deliveries will be ended as they pass through islamist militant controlled areas the un has declared a state of famine in somalia where nearly four million people are going to starvation a devastating because the crisis it's said to be the worst hit the region in decades it's estimated the stricken country needs over one and a half billion u.s. dollars. for el