he doesn't in two years before plessy versus ferguson, include african-americans, and i think that's notable addition that has to be counted. but on the question of other family and local affiliations, in some way detracting from the nation, i think he misunderstands the nature of american national feeling, that, in fact, it has been through our federal system and various other means, it has been the genius of american national sentiment to allow local affiliations to lead into larger ones. tokyo observed this very thing, if you let a man have a control over his property and his locality and a voice in local governance, then it will stir his sentints of patriotism for the nation as a whole so i think setting these two in opposition is quite wrong-headed although very consistent with roosevelt if youook at his new nationalism speech in 1910, it's much privileging the nation over all other things. it sees states and localits as administrative units. >> i agree to some degree with wilfred and frank on this topic. i think roosevelt calibrated, took the zoom lens, and twisted it just abou

my late grandfather, born as the son of sugar cane sharecroppers in rural louisiana in the year of plessi 1896, graduated from howard university school of medicine in 1922. [cheers and applause] he returned to the segregated south of new orleans to practice medicine and found both an insurance company and a savings bank in a career that spanned 60 years. following that, no less than ten family members including my late father-in-law and my life, an award winning cbs news cor spot who finished howard school of communications in 1989 -- [cheers and applause] are proud members of the family. you make me complete today with this honorary degree, for i am now and forever shall be a proud howard university bison. [cheers and applause] now, class of 2011, the world that you face is a world in the throws of change and transformation from egypt and syria to right here in the united states, change and transformation and uncertainty is ever present. from the growing economic power of india and china to the presence of a black man in the white house -- [cheers and applause] this nation has come a lon

late grandfather, born as the son of sugar cane sharecroppers in rural louisiana in the year of the plessy vs. ferguson decision in 1896, graduated from howard university school of medicine in nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and returned to the segregated south of new orleans to practice medicine - and found both an insurance company and a savings bank - in a career that spanned 60 years.. following that, no less than 10 family members, including my late father-in-law, and my wife, michelle miller, an award-winning cbs news correspondent, who finished howard university school of communications in 1989, are proud members of the bison family. so, dr. ribeau, you make me complete with this honorary degree today, for i am now and forever shall be a proud howard university bison. class of 2011, the world that you face is a world in the throes of change and transformation. from the growing economic power of india and china, to the presence of a black man in the white house, this nation has come a long way since the freedom riders of 50 years ago left campuses - including howard university - to

one, on plessy v. ferguson, one of the things that surprising when i read it was that ferguson, i get mixed up, i think plessy was a fair skinned black man, and what i didn't know, looking back at that was a reason why that case is so poor because he was fair enough to pass. >> right. >> that was when the whole thing about how much black blood, you know, the person has to be declared black and, therefore, inferior. that shocked me because in his own classrooms they talk about plessy v. ferguson but not the ugliness of the color and the controversy that still is with us. didn't last thing. what's your next project? >> well, i actually have several. i'm working on a book looking at the intersection of jazz and international politics. and it basically looks at how, over the century, of jazz how it's been appropriated and become meaningful in countries around the world. and i've been about to about 60 countries and is pretty much know what i've been where there hasn't been a jazz culture of some sort. i wa