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the african-american writer from yale law school spoke at tapis smiley -- at tavis smile's state of the black union in february. president obama was listening. jones has left oakland and is now in washington working in the administration, using green jobs as part of the stimulus bill to target people. we employ unskilled workers, semiskilled workers, and unskilled workers. these are people that had barrier to admission. the stimulus package is designed to do that. green jobs helps everybody. jones' work was very important. at that is why he is out there now making sure this becomes an issue. we will have many more sort of environmentally conscious efforts to address these issues. it reaches the committee we described. >> that is it, thank you very much. >> this took place in aspen, colorado on june 30. you can see this program again at c-span.org. in to join us next week for "america and the court's." saturday evenings at 7:00 eastern on c-span. on "newsmakers" this week, james clyburn gave his thoughts on the arrested at harvard professor. >> he can be no more or less of what our exper

tavis: what did you make of the people of botswana? >> i love to the people. they are very generous people. -- i loved the people. they are not quick to smileh is interesting, which is not out of the coldness or a shutting out. tavis: so you fit right in. >> yes. tavis: exactly. >> a friend of mine there told me, because i was on camera, and nobody was smiling, and i was," what is up?" and they said that we do not smile because the camera is out. we smile because something brought it up. i thought that was fantastic. it is very honest. the people were so excited. everyone was so helpful. if i asked someone to say a word again or what something is or just to read, and i will take different passages and the book and ask somebody to read it just to hear the sound, and everyone was helpful, and i loved it. tavis: you guys were there for months. >> yes, last year, we were there for four months. tavis: i could never connect with her because she was in botswana. are you ever going to come back? what is it like being in africa for the first time and being there for four months at a stretch? >> well, the first time we were there, we were there for 4

smile in the elevator or,ou know. so, in other words,'m still in love wh life. life and god wl never leave me. tavisgain, trying to choose where i wt to go, given all tt you've said. i think where i want to go next is to ask you to your point about always being clear and focuse on what your calng was, what your vocation is, your purpose, it's to sprd love through your musc that you share witus. when you wer a kid you started playing violin. as talented as you are, you coul have been y zac perlman you turned outo be carlo santana on a guitar. hy didn't you stay with the violin? >> you kw, the violin is a very demanding instrument to play. i didn't like the way it smeed. [laughter] i didn't like the way it ft and i didn' like the wayt sounds. so it had three strikes. the guitar is jus -- it's like the body of a woman. ou just grab it and you- and it justorks. tavis: ose watching thi program now and f that matter, whenever you see carlos santana, because it is part of whoou are, it's notn act, you are such a spiritual being. you id that when you get to be somewhereround 67,ou've got a few years t go. b