or think of susan smith who in 1994 drowned her four children or who shot his pregnant wife in the head and blamed it on a black man and it was believed or what about a philosopher in academic context where black intelligence is the night and for example it becomes an oxymoron standing before you mimicking speech. we are tropical birds. these other characters wouldn't be the case if nature had made an original distinction between the different breeds of men and black people even black inspiration. we can say intelligent things but we don't comprehend what it is that we say, so what's interesting in countering philosophical text for the site of violence so if i were to say this tomorrow from day to day and all of our yesterdays and then is heard no more for the sound and fury to signify nothing what does that mean? or think of the philosopher cornel west who accused him of trafficking cocaine and was stopped for driving too slowly down a residential street. he told the police officer i am a professor of religion and the officer said and i am explaining non- and threw him in the car. it w

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susan: how did he find the "the north star"? kamal maclarin: the financing came through different streams. a lot of prominent philanthropists would also support his cause. garrett smith was a known abolitionist and also supported his newspaper ventures, and he would also raise money on his own. susan: your job is to help interpret his life in washington dc. when did he get to washington permanently? kamal maclarin: he arrived here officially in 1872, after his home in rochester was burned to the ground. susan: did it burned by malicious intent, or was it an accident? kamal maclarin: there are competing stories, but we do know his son-in-law, nathan, left a lantern in the barn and that probably led to the fire of the rochester home. susan: why did he come to washington? kamal maclarin: he came because he established, and his final newspaper, he wanted to use his voice and pen to advocate for african americans a transition from slavery to freedom. he also wanted the year of all ar of allicians -- e the politicians in and around washington. because in 1872, the home that he purchased was not too far from the actual nation capital. susan: this was the period of reconstru