white. again, why is that? is it that he had an independent mind he went to columbia university and harvard that he worked hard in the south side of chicago and made his way up through the power structure as opposed to easily identify and with people based on the cover of their skin? >> host: so you're saying black males historic we have attacked one another with a slur of your acting white because the desire to be successful or you are successful. success we equate with being white and is that a pejorative for those of us trying to struggle with the quality? >> guest: absolutely right, and that success is financial be a educational and academic success. speaking well, dressing well. but i tell you, janet, it's not just black men. the thing i find problematic as you see this an elementary schools and high schools that somehow if you roll up your sleeves and want to crack a book and read and apply yourself, what your fellow students in urban areas will say that you're acting white or you thin

you think you are white. had been a fascinating to accommodate -- dichotomy between the two men could not be more stark booker t. washington through his famous speech he had given believed believes blacks and whites days blacks and whites should coexisted me as individual as the fingers on eye hand but the same time did not believe blacks should not socialize with weeds nor should they be given an education. he wanted them to be a very and and work in the field. >> host: correct. >> guest: to appease whites and ballet their fears that the educated black work force would be a threat to them. but the bb to block. entirely wrong. the emancipation from the chains of slavery 273 is the power of the education and the power to the great your mind and a first african-american a graduated from garbus that -- harvard that thought the blacks should of the right to vote, the right to an education and a -- fully assimilate but washington looked at those lofty goals and thought he was acting white too. >> host: later who e

. >> host: why, to appease whites? to get along with whites? this. >> guest: to appease whites, to allay their fears that an educated force would be not a threat to them. duboise said, no, entirely the different direction. emancipation from the chains that will set us free is the power to an education. and can he, the first african-american i might point out who graduated from harvard university, thought that blacks should have the right to vote, the right to be able to have an education and the right to fully assimilate in society. but yet and still booker t. washington looked at the very lofty goals of duboise and thought he was acting white. >> host: and then later on someone he called acting white, who is that? >> guest: uh-huh. well, you have a couple actually. >> host: you have booker t -- >> guest: then you have duboise, and yet duboise wasn't done yet. he had a conflict with marcus garvey, a young jamaican who had come to the united states, founded something called the black star line. you'll recall, of course, the white star line was h

w so why are white americans melled chechens? white a at [laughter] well, i did finally answer. the answer took me to germany i did find the answer which took me to germany in the 18th-century. the idea of race was invented in the 18th-century. it doesn't go back to antiquity. there were not white people in antiquity, since so many people thought that, my book actually starts with the greeks and romans and their commentary on the people who became europeans. what the greeks and romans discovered were people who live in various ways. the talk about what we call culture and for the romans who work in various ways because the romans were imperialists and very interested in who was a good fighter and who could help and had to be vanquished. i followed this german idea into the united states, a french intellectual and thomas carlyle who was a british intellectual and ralph waldo emerson. i spend a long time with ralph waldo emerson, who was the kind of genius of the nineteenth century white race theory. ralph waldo emerson didn't have a lot to say about black people but he had a lot

christy, why do you talk white and act white?nd i thought, my goodness, what on earth is he talking about? and it's manager that stuck with me -- something that stuck with me, and i went back, and i wanted to say where did this acting white slur come from, and how can we move away from it? so what i did was i found the real genesis of acting white is in "uncle tom's cabin," published in 852. -- 1852. acting black at that point in literature, you're uneducated, you didn't have religious background, really you didn't have a strong family background. and what she did is she infused her black characters with the attributes of what it meant to be white; intelligent, literate, strong family values. and, in fact, every major character in "uncle tom's cabin" who is black could pass as being white with the exception of uncle tom himself. so i took it from that stand point of 1852 and used the book to trace a historical sweep and say, is this just a one-off, or is this something that we found through history? and it surprised me that throu

these laws created a system that allowed white men to treat white women sexual in america choices, and sexually abuse black women with impunity. both of which maintain white men's position on top, a political and economic power structure. after slavery fell, these practices often remained. for example, during reconstruction former slave holders and their sympathizers use violence to reassert control over free people. in fact, race became a weapon of terror and interracial rape became the battleground upon which black men and women thought for ownership and control of their very own bodies. and so interracial rations deployed a justification for black men who violate any aspect of the race status quo can't even though they're often accused of attacking white women. and so in order to maintain power and control, whites created the myth of the black, the incubus, portraying them as a beast that attacked white women while they slept. they used this image whenever they fear of losing power here for example, white democrats in north carolina use the image of the incubus in 1900 to regain pol

white, dropped it. he had the first down, and he dropped it with 3:19 to go. >> matt: boy, that's a huge drop for the falcons. >> joe: clock stops. you don't need to use a time-out. you'll have the two-minute. ball is thrown a little bit outside. still a catch. >> matt: in his hands. >> joe: should an easy catch. >> matt: tried to stack behind gonzalez. they got what they wanted. he dropped it. >> bob: ed reed who has a punt return for a touchdown in his career waits back at about the 11. great high spiraling punt by koenen. flag on the play and reed from the five. hit by weems and then knocked down at the ten yard line. antone smith on the tackle. we'll check the flag with 3:06 to go. 53-yard punt. >> matt: that was a bomb. >> bob: my michael koenen. >> joe: i don't think ed should have fielded it. as a former punt returner, i used to use -- >> referee: illegal procedure, player number 14. went out of bounds on his own and came back into the field of play. a five-yard penalty. will be assessed at the p

memories about the white house. stories about our lives and our families and of course, many of my happiest and most enduring memories are of the national book festival. i remember something from each of the eight festivals i attended during time at the white house. remember talking with my favorite authors. hosting vladimir putin at the second festival with the national basketball association players who were our partners. the beautiful gala dinners, wonderful authors at the white house on saturday morning. and so many more happy memories. but i especially recall that first national book festival. september 8th, 2001. it was a magnificent day, sunny with a beautiful blue sky. just the kind of weather we hope for. friends came from around the country to stay with george and me at the white house. 40 came from boston all away who had worked with me on the texas book festival. i remember how patiently the festivalgoers waited in line to meet their favorite authors. that festival was everything we hope for and more. th

white, black, or otherwise in this country right now. but to the extent that there is a middle class, i'd say a fairly slim majority but a majority of african-americans have reached it. and i'm not just looking at income, but also educational obtainment and ambition and other kinds of indexes. i call that group the mainstream. there is a, however, a large minority of african-americans somewhere between 25 and 30%. that did not climb that ladder into the middle class. that remains in this kind of stew of poverty and dysfunction in the inner cities and the rule south, you know, in places around the country. and for whom the possibilities of climbing that ladder seem to me slimmer than at any time in the last 50 years maybe than any time in the last 100 years simply because the wrunging of the ladder are no longer there. they are missing. someone of limited education, maybe with high school or whatever, used to be able to go down to the plant. get a job at the plant. union wage, and with job security, wages good enough to take care of your

we weren't allowed to wade with white patients. and i didn't quite realize what was going on until i got a little older. so with that, that was what it was like in the south. the north, it was more subtle, but there was discrimination, and it was effective segregation. sometimes enforced through housing covenants. chicago, for example, in many neighborhoods there were, and if you bought a house, you know, one of the pieces of paper you signed said that you wouldn't sell it to a black person, or in many cases a jew. they didn't want blacks in jews. i guess they didn't think about the possible at anybody else would, you know, other than white existed or would want to buy a house. so they were different, not only in terms of the formality, but they were different in degree, to. my father grew up, he was born in rural georgia as a child, made the great migration. his mother and father had i guess a total of six children, and everyone was born in a different city as they made their way north, you know, from -- started actually out west

there was white sides of town, black sides of town. there was jim crow segregation, which had the force of law. so, there were laws that segregated public accommodations. in my town, orangeberg, there were stores that black people were supposed to enter through the back door. i had real buck teeth when i was a kid, and went to an orthodontist, who lived in another city, and i remember being cop -- confused. we could never wait in the waiting room. we waited in the doctor's own private office until it was time for our appointment. we weren't allowed to wait with the white patients. and i didn't quite realize what was going on until i got a little older. and so with that -- that was what it was like in the south in the north, it was more subtle. but there was discrimination and there was effective segregation. sometimes through housing covenants. chicago, for example, and in many neighborhoods there were -- if you don't keep up the house, you sign one of the pieces of paper you signed was -- said you want sell it to a black person or in

college-educatedç whites. have their work cut out for them. ron brownsteen, editorial director, you've been digging through the statistics coming out of this election. and this profile of the new elect tore rat is pretty overwhelming. >> democrats still did well among minorities and still did well among young people, but both of those turned out in smaller numbers and republicans dominated in the white elect tore at. a number that's been matched twice in the history of polling going back to 1952. the effect has been, they were strongest especially on the blue collar working class community somewhat better among the upper middle class voters along the coast. that was important looking at this and forward to 2012. democrats avoided the worst along the east and west coast. in the middle of the country, they really were put back on their heels. only three states that doenl touch an ocean in which democrats now have a majority of the congressional delegation, which is a pretty remarkable statistic. >> they've lost

but i do not think the white house was truly ready for it. we talked about the compromise on tax cuts with the politics not being figure out. they are not ready to make this deal. i think there is a lot more that needs to be said. i do not see a lot of work in the future. >> what prevents and nancy pelosi from running for office again? normally when you lose an election, you fall on your sword and you go to harvard school and teach politics. >> she wants to grasp onto that last thread of power. it is bewildering. i would never have guessed she would have stayed. i would have thought she would have retired. there were advertisements running against nancy pelosi, even democrats running against their own speaker. she feels that she has a more progressive caucus now. she feels representative of -- >> the traditional left? >> a lot more left wing. a lot of the democrats who left were conservative democrats. a lot of those people were decimated. now we have a more left-wing caucus. >> she really feels like she can leave the loyal opposition for the

. >> all black and white. i think color is-- first of all, the bookmark for mexico is saturated with color folklore, and black and white, there's much more of a dialogue between the image and the audience which is something i wanted to create. >> rose: the congregates inside a that keyedderal. >> the catholic church say huge thing down there. and it's just one of those moments. i can't-- it's very difficult for me to put words to these things. i think they sort of speak for themselves. >> rose: a girl wades in a small cove on the beach of puerto vallarta. how far away from her are you? >> i'm standing on a bij. i'm going to guess i'm 200 feet. >> rose: the next you can describe to me. >> these three men here, they're-- they sing a cappella. what is interesting, i included them in the book as a portrait, and when i sat in front of them, they said they're going to sing, and i thought uh-oh. and they came out and they sang. it brought tears to my eyes. it was such beautiful-- it's just something you have to here.

using force, white authorities take an indigenous girl from her mother and send her away to a white familyis was common practice under the white australia policy, which stipulated aboriginal children receive the same education as white children. deborah herself was taken from her parents soon after her birth and raised by a white couple. it is estimated that more than 100,000 indigenous people received the same treatment. >> at that time in australia aboriginal people weren't even classified as human beings. we were classified as flora and fauna. >> reporter: the premiere is performed in the town of mooroopna in victorian state, where the aboriginal people first rose up. a crowd of 400 whites and indigenous people watch the performance. ♪ the audience were extremely moved. [ applause ] >> amazing. great depiction of the conditions people lived in, the way they were treated. i think it's more about educating white australians about the conditions that they forced other people into. >> reporter: 70 years after the resistance movement, deborah hopes australians remember and understand the bru

he's live at the white house. mike, look, as you can tell from my intro, i'm not buying it from the republicans. >> i gather. >> let's talk about why they might have delayed this treaty. is it to get bigger numbers so they can negotiate better next year or do they just not want to do it? >> there are billions of the table that the white house has said that they will devote towards modernizing the remaining nuclear stockpile. jon kyl wants to look at it longer. jon kyl, the influential member on these issues that the republicans are looking to for leadership here. today, not withstanding jon kyl and influence he has on conservatives in the senate who have 41 members at this moment, come january 5th, they'll have many more. so the margins will be narrowed. but the white house insists all is not lost. quite the opposite. a full measure of confidence, robert gibbs says that they have the votes, it will come up this year and it's going to pass this year. another influential voice, been around for a while on foreign pol

white house aide jim messina took the deal to the oval office.emanuel and obama believed there was an implicit threat attached. if they didn't agree to the deal, billy tauzin could do real damage. >> from the point of obama and the finance committee, it's a huge advantage to have this interest group on your side. >> phrma certainly had deep enough pockets to do some real damage, advertising-wise, if it wanted to. >> if you can stop $100 million from being spent to attack your plan, that looks very, you know, that's not such a bad deal. >> narrator: but taking the deal meant the president would back off his campaign promise to dramatically cut drug prices. >> we talked about it. it's always been my practice not to reveal conversations i've had with the president or people in the white house. >> narrator: tom daschle continued to visit the oval office in an unofficial capacity. >> the president saw it as an opportunity to seize the moment, you know, to get signatures on the line, to say, "this looks like an opportunity we haven't had before. so let

the white house knows it. the white house knows that they will have to deal with speaker boehner and they will have to restructure and go into a defensive mode where they have been in an offensive mode, bracing for this new arrangement. while that may be harder to govern, it may be easier, politically for obama after he gets through these next few weeks, i say that because the republicans have to be accountable. -- itboehnern banjohn believe this will be in chicago. you will have not only the tea party critics, the regular republican establishment critics, a new aggressive gop leadership, but you will have the republican presidential candidates traveling around the country opening up new fronts all over the place. you'll have the obama white house that will have to do with the reality. -- deal with the new reality. the republicans have to share in the miserable economy. if the job rate is still stuck high, if people's homes are still being foreclosed on and if mortgage modification as i get simpler and if peop

this is part of the white house's outreach to the muslim world. they will also concentrate on increasing ties on a trade basis with indonesia saying this is one of the emergency economies the u.s. would like to do more business with. reflecting on his time here as a child, the president say it had looked a lot different when he lived here but he was very happy to be here and hinted woe like to come back for a longer period of time in the future, perhaps bringing his wife and children to show them around. this is savannah guthrie in jakarta, now back to you. >>> president george w. bush writes about some of the most controversial decisions of his presidency in his new memoir "decision points." first, the former president sat down with an exclusive interview with "today's" matt lauer. >> let's talk about waterboarding. >> okay. >> we believe america is going to be attacked again. all kinds of intelligence coming in. and one of the high-valued al qaeda operatives was khalid shaikh mohammed, chief operating officer that order the attack on 9/11. they

>> white women it was 57 republican, democrat and for our poll on white women we had 57-40. we were different with 58-40. >> you can see this is -- >> a one point difference. >> this is really across the board. we are viewing this as a two election process at a minimum. the house is now in pro-family tax cutting fiscally conservative hands. we are very excited about leader joan john boehner and his leadership team, but there's work to be done and we're not going to rest until president obama is replaced by pro-life profamily conservative president, and harry reid is replaced by a pro-life profamily conservative leader in the majority and senate. we're redoubling our efforts going into 201. as you can imagine, we are pleased with what happened yesterday. with that, i'll open it up to questions that you can direct to either of us or both of us. >> you mentioned the house race -- [inaudible] i know that was targeted for -- [inaudible] >> well, in our case it was across the board. it was the bad vote on health care. it was the fact that he was one of those who, you know, along w

in the white working class. let's take a look and how they voted for the presidential election, and you will release see what is going on. whites with a college degree only voted for john mccain by four points. the white working class voted for john mccain by 18 points. we see the whites are much more likely to support of the legislative level. what happened on election night is that two groups have split their ballots for various reasons and all decided to vote republican, and the first group is southerners and others in rural southern districts. these places traditionally voted republican at the top. it persisted until last night. key examples are virginia 9, mississippi for, missouri for reaching mississippi 4, missouri 4. in 1832, the heart of the democratic party was white, rural southerners. even in 1980, the majority were held by white southerners. today there is more of a majority in new england and new york. that would only ascribe for part of the game. you would have the republicans and seats surging b

so there were people who were considered white. no one could question their white this. very clearly the irish were white. people descended from english or scottish people or german people but they belong to to different races. they were white but the long to different races. the irish catholics were thought to belong to the caltech race and people descended from english people were thought to belong to the sex and race and the saxons were better than the celts. it was not until the middle of the 20th century which many of us remember vividly that the idea of one big white race came into being in which everybody who was white was the same as everybody else. it is not an accident that that happened through politics. it happened through the national mobilization of the great depression, the second world war, and the federal policies crafted after a minute. here is a little bit from ron carlson. >> harold vermis is the author of art and politics of science. tell us, how did you come up with the title? >> i knew a book that was simply given a scientific titles wouldn't be at

i need more time. >> right, it's a big embarrassment for the white house.he president is going to meet in portugal this weekend. they're going to talk about it. he thought he had a deal in hand and now it looks like no. >> bret: ok. up next, general motors' comeback and today's ipo. you can get all the details as we head to break, head to é;çwwómçnh@ox÷Ñú >> today, one of the toughest tales of the recession took another big step towards becoming a success story. general motors relaunched itself as a public company. cutting the government's stake in the company by nearly half. what's more, american taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in g.m. and that's a very good thing. >> bret: president obama celebrating the return of general motors to the u.s. stock market today. the stock rose from $33 a share to close at about $34.19 but the u.s. government did get a big chunk back from all of that and they hope to get more as you heard the president. what about this? we're back with the panel. julie, the president is obviou

this is "white house chronicle."e always glad to hear from the viewers and listeners and get in touch with us through our whchronc ich is pbs.o icle.com. we have about 420 stations, some public, some public access and quite a few of them are commercial. as we were saying -- >> another factor debt -- that does not immediately come to mind is immigration. our top graduate schools are stuffed with asian people, people coming from india, and korea and the like are they get top education and guess what? they go back and use all that technology in their home country. if we had a smart immigration policy to let people in and keep people out who should not be here, we might see more progress on the science side. >> sharon, in this constant drumbeat of more math and science, what do you think the political goal is? is it thought out to? if we have enough of these people will we invent a new internet or a new google or a nuclear power plants? >> no, i don't think there is a goal. we make it more difficult for foreign graduate

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the fact is the racism had a very negative effect on the white community too, and there were few whites who were trying to break out of it. i tell the story of a doctor, my mother of had very bad infection. my father had a mentor who was a white director of guidance counseling for the schools in birmingham, and my father went to him and said, my wife has this terrible infection, can you recommend a doctor. he recommended dr. carmichael, a white doctor. first time we showed up, i was 7. we went in and the waiting room for blacks was a horrible paint peeling above the pharmacy straight up and hard benches to sit on. after he saw my mother that saturday, he said, now, rev ranted rice, the next time you bring angelina, you bring her after five o'clock. we came after five o'clock, and his white patients were gone. we were able to sit up in the front waiting room where there were magazines and letter chairs and the whole thing. pretty soon over time, the doctor integrated his own waiting room because i think for him it was humiliating to have to treat someone like my father that way because o

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but we begin tonight at the white house. president obama takes his basketball very seriously, and today things got rough during a pickup game. a stray elbow sent the president to the doctor, where he received 12 stitches in his mouth. sharyl attkisson is at the white house tonight with a post-game report. sharyl, how is our m.v.p. doing? >> reporter: he's all right, maggie. mishaps happen to everyone, of course. but when it's the president, it's bound to get a lot of attention. dabbing his injured mouth, president obama was escorted into his car at fort mcnair army post in washington, d.c. he'd taken an elbow to the upper lip playing defense in a five on five basketball game with family and friends. late today, the white house revealed the owner of the elbow in question, ray deserega, who works for the congressional

but it's not been all in the white house had hoped for. karen travers joins us from seoul, where the president answered some questions a short time ago. hi, karen. >> reporter: good morning, rob and mike. president obama may not have gotten everything he wanted out of this summit. but as he concluded, his focus was on the agreement of economic growth. acknowledging that the results of global summits are not always seen immediately, president obama touted consensus among the g-20 leaders. >> the fact is, the 20, major economies gathered here are in broad agreement on the way forward. >> reporter: but he stressed there are still issues that need to be addressed, like trade imbalances. >> no nation should assume their path to prosperity is paved simply with exports to the united states. >> reporter: coming into the summit, mr. obama hoped to push china to stop what the white house says is currency manipulation. devaluing the chinese wan, to boost exports. no agreement was reached. but the president said they made progress. >> this is not solv

now over to the white house and chip reid. chip, what legally can the administration actually do about these leaks? >> reporter: well, today, katie, attorney general eric holder threatened to come down hard on wikileaks with the full legal weight of the federal government. >> there's a predicate for us to believe that crimes have been committed here and we are in the process of investigating those crimes. >> reporter: at the white house, press secretary robert gibbs went even further, finding wikileaks guilty before charges have even been filed. >> wikileaks and people that disseminate information to people like this are criminals. >> reporter: wikileaks founder julian assange has not revealed who gaye him the documents, but officials believe it was army private bradley manning. he's in a military prison in virginia charged with leaking other classified information that investigators believe he downloaded while serving as a u.s. intelligence officer in iraq. on capitol hill, some republicans are calling on the justice departme

it's about abuse of power by the white house.nd this is not the first time the white house in our country's history has abused power. in this particular case, it involved a decision to go to war. there really is no more serious decision the president of the united states makes than to go to war. so to have abused the power of the white house and to manipulate the country to the extent which they did for a decision that's as solemn as going to war, that's the story that i want to tell. >> the deception about wmd i think we all now appreciate and understand. the question that i have is what did the white house gain by outing valerie plame? what was the -- sort of the political game, or was it just retributi retribution? was it venom? i don't see their political purpose there. >> i don't know, and unlike other hollywood filmmakers who might make up a scene, you know, and just make up a scene in the white house, i stuck to scenes that actually took place. you'd appreciate it as a lawyer that i actually used court transcripts. and the

i'm joel brown at the white house. that's coming up. >>> caught on tape a mysterious missile launch off of the coast of california. >> this is video of the launch from a news helicopter in los angeles. it happened about 35 miles off the coast around 5:00 yesterday evening and right now the pentagon still doesn't know who fired it. >>> a former u.s. ambassador and deputy secretary of defense says with president obama in asia, this could have been a show of our military muscle. >> it could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine to demonstrate mainly to asia that we can do that. >> navy and air force officials have said the minneapolis is not theirs and -- missile is not there and neither had launches near that area and today the faa told nbc it did not approve any commercial launches around l.a. at the time. the pentagon is still investigating. >>> president obama's second stop on his trip through asia was also a return home. he visited indonesia, a place where he lived as a child. joe

and they actually blame the white house. they told the white house they couldn't meet on this day because of all of the orientation meetings. i do not think the answer to the question this is not about disrespect. this is scheduling. >> you know washington better that this is carefully stage managed. a snafu, i don't think so. there are two thing, one may be waiting out the clock on this congress and two, maybe the republicans remember that nasty meeting they had in baltimore in january with the president where he just wiped the ground with them talking about health care. i think they may be worried -- >> you think that baltimore incident has everything to do? >> i do. >> let me -- >> they're not going to bring cameras into this meeting so i don't think that's the problem. i do think it had to do with the scheduling. and frankly, what's going on on both sides of the congress, house and senate, democrats and republicans, they're trying to get organized for the new year and this is a bad time to have the meeting. >> a meeting,

we were having a very fancy white house lunch. and i was having the peanut butter and honey and whole wheat toast. he has to pay for his meals. i have to pay for mine. you be very careful about what you order. he said i wanted to write a book. he said be truth, admit what we did wrong, and be frank. i tried to do that. i've never written a book. this is my first. maybe the last. it was a great experience. the more you write and the more you own it, the more you get drawn from the big arc of the story down to chapters and episodes and pages and paragraphs and phrases. so at the end of the process, you have really honed this thing done, you've lost the arc. the big arc. the week before i was supposed to announce -- to launch the book, the last week of february of this year, i got a messenger at my door. it wasn't a fedex package. it was a messenger. i had to sign for it. inside is the first copy of the book that i'd ever seen with a note from my publisher, simon and schuster. before you go on "the today show" reread your book. i did

the white house suggested a new date and the new meeting will now be on november 30th. >> the white house suggested it. >> that comes from mcconnell's office. >> i was about to go off on republicans here. i believe when the president of the united states invites you, you go. >> absolutely, and he has before. >> you know what mitch mcconnell deserves right now? >> an apology? >> no, come on man! >> mcconnell is saying, though, that -- mcconnell is saying that the president's people suggested they reschedule -- >> quote, the white house suggested a new date and the new meeting will now be on november 30th. >> all right. >> that's not what politico is reporting. >> here it is. i like mike, go with joe. >> get him off the set. >> do you know how much i get paid for this kind of stuff? here it is right here for free. >> in pink. >> maybe that's what's wrong with america. maybe that's why our economy is tanking, you get paid -- >> you saw the career process unfold in the most organic -- you saw a movement start. you saw a captain of industry jump aboard and you saw the magic unfold. >> can i ju