i wanted to get a big map of africa to show how small the area where people speak swahili.nglish is everyone's second language. if i speak zulu and we want to talk, we talk in english. in that regard, it is the preferred second language. you will see black people talking to each other in english a lot because there are some in the differently woul language backgrounds. it was all done in english were i went. it was all the kids second language and it was a hard thing for them to deal with and that is one of the issues they are trying to put together in this new curriculum. as soon as these folks get tv in their houses, speaking english all the time -- people will say are you losing your culture, things we don't want. they are struggling with that. i will have to start signing books. people are standing up. yes, ma'am? >> talking about how dramatic the differences are -- when the power line dropped and all of that happened, the potential would be the kid from the ghetto who becomes the star athlete and crashes because you cannot handle that dramatic of a change. does the pea

says a woman smashed her face with a beer mug in october at an applebee's because she was speaking swahili. the attacker yelled at her to go back to her country. >> you can't put everybody in the same box. i'm an american, so if an attack happens in this coffee shop right now, we'll be casualties all of us. you don't pick and choose. people use islam to kill people. they have killed so many muslim, not only do they attack only christians. i'm not a terrorist. i'm an american citizen. i want what's good for this country. i want to live in peace just >> reporter: concerns about backlash stretch beyond this community. charlie, after the brussels attacks, lead centers seven states from new york to california spoke out against targeting muslims. >> rose: thanks, adriana. the c.d.c. put out new guidelines today for fighting zekea. the virus is suspected of causing severe birth defects. it is spread by mosquitoes and through sexual transmission. nearly 300 cases are confirmed in the united states. the c.d.c. recommends that women who show symptoms wait eight weeks before trying to get pregnant. m

to be prognosticated i don't think they thought obama of lead paint the white house read and speak swahili but be more explicit in his expression of race. he wasn't until he was forced remember immediately after his reelection the congressmen from ohio said you talk about diversity through a tender and tap -- geography but we are disappointed in you. that may not have been a move in the first term because black people were intolerant of any criticism. even legitimate. and those that are casting aspersions and all manner of foul language. nine of that. that is not what they expected. however there is a legitimate need to hold any president accountable. in one of the strengths of the black people collectively to say the president must do the right thing and hold them accountable. but that joke of fdr of roosevelt was in the white house as president with the labor and peter h. philip randolph with a great education leader to put forth of black agenda and they said i believe in everything you are saying now go do that. go into the public's fear to do the right thing. so as the first black pres

i don't think they thought obama was going to speak swahili and paint the white house back but thought he would be more explicit in his expression of race but he wasn't until he was forced into it. remember after his election, martha bud, then congressman from ohio who was the head of the congressional black caucus. he said you have diversity in terms of gender but there is not in terms of race andee we are disappointed in you. that may not been a move marsha burn would have made because black people were intolerant of any criticism of obama. one of the strengths of black people collectively speaking is saying the president must do the right thing and hold him accountable. remember the story that president fdr was in the office as president and met with the worker leader and the great education leader of black people and put forth the black agenda and roosevelt said i agree with everything you are doing and go out there and make me do it. go into the public sphere and tell them you are pressuring me do this. that should have happened with president obama. why didn't it? he is the first

i don't think they thought he would come out speaking swahili and paint the white house black but be more explicit on the subject of race. and he wasn't until he was forced into it. immediately after his reelection martha fudge, then the head of the congressional black caucus said you are talking about diversity. you don't have diversity in terms of race. we are disappointed in you. that may not have been a move that in the 1st term was made because black people were intolerant of any criticism of president obama, even legitimate criticism. using all manner of foul language. that is not what people were tolerant of or within expected. there is legitimate need for holding any president accountable, and one of the strengths collectively speaking has been the ability to say president must do the right thing. fdr, delano roosevelt, franklin delano roosevelt was in the white house as president, met with the labor leader in the great educational leader and they put forth a black agenda. franklin delano roosevelt said, i agree with everything you are saying. go on the public sphere and show

also i was speaking swahili. i was addressing myself in their language. i couldn't have been better looked after in those circumstances. and perhaps the same, you're in the convoy, people are coming, they're expecting a particular kind of discussion. and the fun times i had in human rights watch were always after that, after we talked about, you know, i always remember one particular girl. we had the most harrowing interview where she describes being gang raped in prison in ethiopia. and then afterwards we all finished, we all went outside, and she had made hopscotch in the compound. and those five men and her and her mother and some other people all playing hopscotch for about half an hour, and she was chatting and talking about going to school. you see another side of people. and that's really what i wanted to got at from my initial experience. i wanted to find out more about that side of things. not just the tough stories, but the human stories as well. to put -- to give you, in fitzgerald's words, the whole equation. >> you also have in the book, i me