depiction of the home front in mississippi yeah, steve. i think the way that he talks about the slaves who are trying to escape was ridiculous because it he sort of like made it into this like deep deep sea, like spiritual exodus that like the white characters couldn't understand and all the slaves were moving. it's like a solid mass towards this this freedom. they thought they could obtain, but it was eventually hopeless and like they didn't know any better. i feel like i don't know i've i feel like it's kind of offensive non that he like painted the black characters as like, you know, untrustworthy or bad or unintelligent because like they're not that it's just like he's saying that they have these like spiritual motivations that that can't be understood and it really can be understood. they're just trying to not be slaves anymore. i feel that the fact that he paints them as is so like you know sort of a sense of being like other or different and in that sort misguided is just he kind of i feel like it's just kind of a not even a racist.

mississippi is a rural state. that is really important to us and as we discussed, we are a wood basket in mississippi. i raised this issue before the forest service but i want to raise it again because it's really important and significant to rural communities in my state to the rural economic development in southwest mississippi, which is really one of the prettiest parts of our state, that's what we can capitalize on, is the forest there. it just has tremendous potential. section 8631 of the 2018 farm bill is the amendment i got in there to authorize the transfer of 150 acres of the national forest from the u.s. forest service to the scenic rivers development alliance, which is a regional organization dedicated to rural economic development and outdoor recreation in southwest mississippi. the land surrounds a lake, a 1,075-acre recreational lake for fishing, boating, picnicking and swimming, and it is absolutely beautiful. unfortunately, the lake alone is not doing much for the surrounding rural communities. we

taylor machine works in mississippi is one great example of a u.s. company conducting r&d in the materials handling industry. and whose innovations today are being replicated throughout the world. this committee took important steps as the distinguished chair mentioned in passing the endless frontier act now known as the united states innovation and competition act, or usica. i don't like that, as well. this bill is authored by senator young, and passed by 68-32. the legislation would create a new supply chain resiliency program within the department of commerce to monitor supply chains and develop ways to address vulnerabilities. it also supports semi conductor manufacturing and r&d. this is a much needed response to the semiconductor shortages that have disrupted manufacturing across the nation, including my home state of mississippi. undoubtedly, we will hear about that from the distinguished panel. the legislation also includes contribution from the finance committee to combat china's manufacturing imbalances and threats to free and fair trade. t

what happened in mississippi? >> well, arkansas was, you know, i was talking about sharecroppers and how they did relatively well that year. so the price of cotton was through the roof. so a lot of -- a lot of sharecroppers in various parts of the south started to try to organize to create a collective where they would go to the cotton gins and say this is our price. they started to have meetings. and they're holding a meeting in hoopsborough, arkansas, which isn't even a real town at a building there and white police show up and shooting starts. and some white officers are killed. well, that's -- that sets off a white posses roaming the county killing people for days. they then rounded up a bunch of african-american sharecroppers, beat them bloody and had them confess to a grand conspiracy that was never really defined that there was a plot to kill every white person in the county. that was challenged by the naacp and others in a very, very long legal suit that eventually led to the supreme court. and those men w

on june 26, 1919, as many as 10,000 whites gathered in a field just outside ellisville, mississippi, to watch a bound, exhausted and wounded black man named john hatfield as he was hoisted up the branch of a giant sweet gum tree. vendors sold flags, trinkets and souvenir photographs, local politicians delivered speeches, young boys crowded in the tree to look down at the wild-eyed screaming hartfield. it was a country fair, political rally and public murder rolled into one. after world war i black americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity and equality, but this civil rights moment was not to be. instead, the euphoria of victory evaporated to be replaced by the worst spate of anti-black violence, labeled the red summer, the riots and lynchings would last from april to november 1919, claiming hundreds of lives. blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before, introducing the first stirrings of the civil rights movement that would change america forever. friends, please welcome our guests this evening, cameron mcwhirter and sa

taylor who is a leading manufacturer in mississippi. taylor builds forklifts and a variety of materials and machinery for defense materials. he has firsthand experience with the topics that we will cover, and i know him, and he and other members of the panel will make a valuable contribution to the discussion. >> thank you, senator wicker. thank you for being here. we are honored to have you before the committee and your expertise in the area. please proceed. >> thank you very much. madam chair cantwell, and ranking member wicker and members of the senate commerce committee, it is a pleasure and honor to be invited to testify before you today. my name is gary jeressey, and i'm a professor at duke university, and i have spent a number of decades studying supply chain resiliency. and this is the first time that my neighbors and phrenes want to talk about the topic. necessari reason, because pandemic of covid-19 have forced this come to the consciousness because of the short annals, but it is the white house report released last month that

it is a leading manufacturer in mississippi. taylor builds forklifts and a wide variety of material handling machines for both industry and defense purposes. mr. taylor has first-hand experience with the topics we will cover, and i know he and other members of the panel will make a valuable contribution to this discussion. thank you, ma'am. >> thank you, senator wicker, for leading up with you, doctor, thank you so much when you get were honored to have you before the committee and their expertise in this area. please proceed, dr. gereffi. [inaudible] >> madame chair cantwell, ranking member wicker, members of the senate commerce committee, it's a pleasure and an honor to be invited to testify before you today. my name is gary jarecki. i've been a professor at duke university for many years and i direct the global value chains center there and i spent a number of decades studying global supply chains and this is the first time that a think my neighbors and friends want to talk about that topic. not necessarily for good reasons t

he's got a job working on a ferry boat to help travelers cross the mississippi river at the st. louis region, and then you started working for a man named philip kramer early early biographies have said that bridger was apprenticed to a saint louis blacksmith. of little renowned and that's not true at all. he apprentice to philip kramer. who was the most noteworthy gunsmith for hundreds of miles? and he lived in illinois not in missouri and richard was 12 and 13 when he started working as an apprentice to philip kramer who was one of the most noted gunsmiths in the midwest of the country. and one of his first assignments was to go up the the illinois river to a place called peoria, which was in is an indian name. and he was working under kramer, but trying to help provide goods. and repair guns for the potawatomies and the potawatomies were not nearly as in a good position as they were in the war of 1812 when they were siding with the british. when bridger was 17 there was an ad that was put in the missouri republican and several other newspapers. and the ad was at was asking fo

in the state of mississippi. in the louisiana. to confront exactly what i'm sharing with you and what i presented in my written testimony. chair blumenthal: thank you very much. i have questions i'm going to ask other witnesses. i want to turn out to senator feinstein. sen. feinstein: inc. you, mr. chairman. i am really sorry we have reached this day here. i remember the time well, when abortion was essentially illegal in the united states. i know of women who ended their lives. . . i saw the past at, so a woman -- i saw the plate being passed at stanford where i lived so woman could go to mexico for her abortion. nearly 50 years after the supreme court dared to the right to safe and legal abortion, it is still unfortunate that women's reproductive rights are considered an issue that is up for debate. i believe that deeply. so far, in 2020 one, state lawmakers across the country, have introduced 561 abortion restriction bills. 83 of those have been signed into law. the supreme court agreed to hear a case about mississippi's restri

so you think, well, this is mississippi. you know, surely, this is an outlier. what's the sort of background of this person? is he unusual? this is a man, tom brady, judge tom brady who was educated at the lawrenceville school, one of the leading institutions of prep schools in the country, and also yale university. so, this is a person of sophistication, who nevertheless, is using this incredibly strong language. people also spoke about, if not talking about misogynation and mongralization, they would use the language of mixed schools, that our schools are going to become mixed. and this was supposed to create a really evocative image for people of people having what one author referred to as mixed blood. that language, again, does not appear in the southern manifesto itself. the other techniques that people used at the time were to think about sort of casting aspersions on black intelligence and talk about the high rates of venereal disease and things in this register. you know, you see these sort of statements saying that, you know, it's because of syphilis a

the state supreme court agreed to hear a case aboutve mississippi's restricted abortion law. many observers including myself are concerned that the supreme court court could use this case to overturn or diminish the protections established in roe. let me ask dr. parrot a question. texass recently passed a law tht would ban all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. is there any medicalfl justification for a law like limit the would flexibility of a patient and her doctor to make the health care decisions that are best for the patient?t? >> thank you for that question. that is an easy answer. the answer is no. none of these restrictions are based on any medical evidence at all. they're not based on any science and they absolutely do not protect the health and safety of the folks that are seeking care. the idea that they would do so is nottt supported by the medic evidenceit and as imentioned in my written and oral testimony, increases the risk of complications in pregnancy and decreases the likelihood that individuals will go on and live lives that are productive, safe and he

louisiana mississippi were majority black states and ground zero for reconstruction was south carolina and georgia alabama and florida were almost majority black so there is a real concentration of black power as was said to be in the film in the six southern states. that was true even before the civil war. it was called me grow country because it was so full of black people. and because of the economy and the productivity of the whites and the expertise of africans they brought to south carolina. but also a sizable three black community the ame church formed in philadelphia by richard allen. and formally born in the year 1860 in charleston, and there is the emmanuel church and in 1822, a man was accused of plotting and insurrection in charleston. that he was free how did he get free? listen to this because this is one of the ironies of american history and the complexity of history. and enslave man in 1799 he plays the lottery i get the convenience store and $11500. he used 600 of those dollars to buy his own freedom from his so-called owners so then he was free then in 1822 is a very

and i was in mississippi, i was in new york, i was in alabama, i was in massachusetts. and that is madam binn, who was a great hero of mine and fortunately, three years ago when i went to vietnam and received the assignment to make this exhibit turned into a book, i was able to photograph her. it's a portrait part of a series i have been doing. there is a third woman who meant so much to me in the sixties and seventies and i always and i always regretted not not having met her, cora weiss. and it has since we talked a lot on the phone in the past few months and i am so pleased that she is here. cora was one of the only woman among the a national organizers of the moratorium in the demonstrations 50 years ago. cora was one of the founders of women who strike for peace, cora was a longtime supporter of the gi anti war movement, cora has a special place in the history against the war of having set up a women to women organization she might tell you about if we are lucky, between women and the u. s. and women in vietnam that led to exchanges of male in information between f

one of them is someone i worked with in mississippi. fannie lou hamer. a lot of you have heard of her. i was fortunate to know her and work with her. there was another one who there was no way for me to meet because she was in vietnam and then in paris. paris? and i was in mississippi. i was in new york. i was in alabama. i was in massachusetts. and that is madame bin who was a great hero of mine, and unfortunately, three years ago when i went to vietnam and received the assignment to make this exhibit, it turned it into a book, i was able to photograph her. as a portrait part of a series i've been doing. there's a third woman who meant so much to me during the 60s and 70s, and i always regretted never having met her, and that's kora weiss. i had something to do with inviting her here today. we've talked a lot on the phone the past few months. and i am so pleased that kora is here. kora was one of the -- was the only woman among the eight national organizers of the moratorium and demonstrations 50 years ago. kora was one of the founders of the women's st

why because black people would move from mississippi and alabama to chicago. yeah, and they were concentrated on the south side and they had the right to vote why because of the 15th gratification of the 15th amendment and they had a numbers they had the numbers and so and they had been distant franchise starting with the mississippi plan in 1890 from each of the former confederate states, and i'll give you an example of how effective at what they've been disenfranchised through state constitutions that were just amount of total voter repression for black people through poll taxes and leaders. he tests that only my colleague at the harvard law school lawrence tribe could ever pass right and i'll tell you how dramatic it was. i want the students to hear this in louisiana. remember it's one of the majority black states when the civil war and it in 1890. um in 1898 there were 130,000 black men registered but by 1904 after the ratification of the new louisiana state constitution there were 1,342 black men registered to vote in effect three, you know, that's amazin

. >> the chair is recognizing for five minutes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. guest. >> thank you, madam chairman. mr. sheridan, you said for cryptocurrency and other commodities must be backed by the u.s. commerce, and it ser serves as on ramps, and off ramps for brokers and money laundering and could you expand on that briefly? >> yes, sir. thank you for the question. what my written testimony was meant to encapsulate is ecosystem of what we refer to as digital money. we are seeing in a lot of the conversations that the terms related to the different platforms are used interchangeable, and virtual currency, and digital cryptocurrency, and we in the secret service use cryptocurrency, because it includes ethereum, and tether and so forth, and the two-term definition is to apply whether it is legal tender, but for us, it is how it is used. so the written testimony is meant to describe, in a more detail how it is used as my colleague has used to on ramp from the legal tender to digital money, and how it is used laterally for the legal and illicit means and off ra

mississippi congressman chaired the committee. >> the committee will come to order. the meeting to receive testimony on an examining fema's reainess to meet this mission. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. the gentlewoman from florida shall assume the duties of the chair in the event that i run into technical difficulties. good morning. the committee is meeting today to discuss readiness to meet its mission. we're pleased to be joined by administrator chris, confirmed just two months ago. administrator chris brings to the job a wealth of experience from emergency management, leader of one of fema's national management assistants teams and two decades of service as a firefighter in the colorado national guard. i would also note she's the first woman to be confirmed by the senate and aapplaud the biden administration for selecting highly qualified individuals who reflect the diversity of our great nation. min strauter steps into the role at a critical junction as feast many contends with responses to previous dis

i talked about one of them currently undergoing in my district in mississippi. that part of my district, have you looked at fema's structure for declaring and approving natural disasters and based on the population and income of the area? what happens is if a high-income area gets hit, the sparsely populated community that's devastated, somehow doesn't meet the criteria. what we can do to make sure that those people are not being left out because of that current economic condition. >> i have seen firsthand the disproportionate impact that our communities experience. and our underserved communities across this country where they struggle day-to-day struggle even more when a disaster does strike. one of the things that we did during covid-19 for the first time was take social vulnerability index and data into our decision making for how we're going to anticipate or provide assistance. i have directed my tame team to continue this process and how do we now take this equity data that's out there into decision making process that we use for future disasters. that's s

supposed to be thanksgiving dinner for the white house, she was sent from the previous thanksgiving from mississippi to be made in the food but she was tame, the first lady fell in love with her, she wore a shawl. she was much involved in the east or a girls as well. >> the president would bring the pets, and the patronage with the children? >> absolutely. >> the whole thing continue to gel as a great event for the public. where the newspapers all was interested in this? was always a media event as well? >> absolutely. >> it helps with the presidents image? >> totally. >> and later on there were the first radio broadcast, when did that happen? >> the first radio broadcast was done by the hoover's. but neither the president or the first lady actually spot -- spoke. the marine band me the music. >> that will be 28 or 29? what's the with the radio broadcast of the easter egg will be like? >> it was much of the marine bans music, a lot of laughing kit in the background. one of thomas edison's early videos actually, of the easter egg roll, it is in congress. i encourage everybody to see that as well. >>

of cyst subsistence living some another went north and then thinking back always to that moment in mississippi it was recurring and she told that many many times. the hero of the story as she told it even though the family was cheated, tricked into give up their livestock and their things and their land but margaret szabo is happening and ran out the back door and got one of their cows and walked over to their neighbors house so she saved that one cow which was incredible and how they would've been lost without that one cow because i'm so fortunate to have because of the story of resilience. >> you write i never met her or even saw a picture of her but i have seen in touch and admire the work of her hands is just as colorful. the fabric from the blankets and dignity preserved and help in dire times so this comes to the end of our time and asking you questions earlier of calling you to action i thought you might talk a little bit more the burden of relations but also contains model for repurposed thing and regenerating relationships as they engage in workup shared purpose. there are a number of

river, longer than the mississippi river. we're going to have problems every single year, and that $8.9 million damage special is a problem. i represent a farming community all along the missouri river, and it's just devastating to get a town like -- probably aurora with 800 people, and if you wipe out all of the downtown area, you may not go to $8.9 million, and yet the town is devastated. you've already heard that. i'm not going to bring that up again. i do need to say -- i'm not sure -- i'm going to try to find out today -- i said i was going to do it earlier -- whatever this racial theory is which i've never heard of. i have a masters, but i guess -- i'll try to find out what it is. it's kind of confusing to me. i heard of it i think about a month ago, and i'm not sure if fema is in charge of racial stuff. i don't know -- i don't know if they changed your job description. anyway, what i want to talk about, though, is the vaccination effort in rural communities. as i said, i represent a large rural community in missouri, a

she was born in yazoo city, mississippi. she was living in oklahoma the year that her daughter, my grandmother, was born. mary jones and simon parrish were married in 1912. by the late teens, the family was living in rochester new york. i would like to discover why they relocated there. it could have been for some perceived opportunity or for restlessness and a hunt for something different. in 1918, mary parrish traveled to tulsa to visit her brother. she was impressed by the community she found here. there was a vitality in a spirit of cooperation that appealed to her. she could envision making a living and was assumed to return after that initial visit. she secured a job at the bunton branch of the ymca and opened her own school to facilitate women who want to do up -- wanted to learn the secretarial arts. she was teaching the night of the massacre. her students had left for the evening and she and her daughter were passing the time until bedtime. but, there would be no rest that night. little florence mary stood in the wi

i don't think so. >> so we should note this past year that mississippi finally changed the flag, correct? >> yes. >> it took a little while. listen, i do want to bring in the audience to a couple of the polling questions to have a sense of where everybody's head is, and another jumping off point of the conversation. an idea of being included in the narratives, and audience, you will see it pop up on the screen, and we would like to see you weigh in, and when you see the conversation, you can vote, and then we can go to conversation and to what extent do you feel included in the images that identify american civic images that kenneth bunch and ken burns have been talking about? okay. so we will take a moment here. so i think that we will see them pop up very soon. there you have -- and the results are overwhelmingly somewhat. secretary bunch, when you are looking at the people with 58% out there feeling somewhat included in the narratives and 34% said very, and 9% said not at all. that tells me that you guys are doing your jobs pretty well, huh? >> well, it is telling me that there over t

kennedy: if the people of the united states had lost a struggle and the mississippi river divided us, we would wish to be reunited. if the people of the soviet union experienced a comparable fate and wish to be reunited, people and families want to join together. that is the object of our policy. there is no immediate solution, but we hope that at time, the desire of people to determine their own destiny will be sufficiency -- sufficiently strong and policies develop and events change, and that will bring about the reunification which is a strongly held desire of the german people. ♪ narrator: as president kennedy takes his leave, and admirer exceed -- succeeds in expressing the relationship between germany and the united states, and that seems to make it unanimous in bonn today. ♪ one day later in hannah now -- hanau, the seventh army assembled weapons under the banner of the u.s. forces in europe. ♪ u.s. soldiers and their families are gathered together in germany, nearly 4000 miles from home to welcome their president. ♪ [gunfire] accompanied by vice chancellor ehrhardt, th

as it jackson mississippi the fires are burning but they are firemen. their fire stations. so these friends of liberty are just so good. adf is 17 in a row on the supreme court. but end with your recommendations to these good people and those that are watching. what can ordinary americans due to defendant religious freedom? then we will a couple questions. >> i suggested two things already. one is transmission. i think we need to educate ourselves because of the collapse of >> education in the united states, the young people are not learning about a culture of freedom there probably learning in many schools as you all know different kinds of attitudes towards the united states. my responses excuse me? a people living out of the united states to venezuela and cuba and central america? that does not seem to be the case and may be missing something here if we are such a terribly oppressive regime. that is what is being perpetuated in schools. we have to do some home education there is one person is an alum of homeschooling. homeschooling's at the 10% before the pandemic was 5%

she was born in mississippi in 1890. we know that she was living in oklahoma in 1914, the year that her daughter florence mary, my grandmother, was born. mary jones and simon parish were married in 1912. by the late teens, the family was living in rochester, new york. i would like to discover why they relocated there. it could have been for some perceived opportunity or it could have been restlessness and a hunt for something different. in 1918, mary traveled to tulsa to visit her brother and was impressed by the community she found here. there was vitality and a spirit of cooperation that appealed to her. she could envision making a living and was soon to return after that initial visit. she secured a job at the ymca and opened her own school to facilitate women who wanted to learn the secretarial arts. she was teaching the night of the massacre. her students had left for the evening. she and her daughter were passing the time. there would be no rest that night. little florence mary stood in the window amusing herself a

west to tourism and really create the next new american ethos both in landscape and other west of the mississippi river. when you look at this particular bay take a look at the quote overhead. that really is the summation of the impact of the war. none of us. we shall never any of us be the same as we have been. i set up three pairs of paintings in this bay and i did that deliberately because each pair looks at post-war america in terms of the work still left to do if you look at prisoners from the front over here. you'll see my confederate with his four bullet holes in his slouchat. this is a painting that is done in 1866. it's it is a full year after the war is over and i think not only do you get this blasted virginia landscape, which should now recall to you both what george barnard has done in his photographs and what homer did in the little landscape called defiance that has the same character? but fundamentally what this picture is about is unfinished business. north and south they hate each other we're not done yet. we may have stopped fighting on the battlefield, but until animosity is r

so what we should also note, by the way, i think it was just this past year that mississippi finally changed its flag. correct? yes. yeah, it took a little while. listen. i do want to bring in the audience to a couple of polling questions. we'd pulled together just to get a sense of where everyone's head is and that can give us another jumping off point for the conversation. there's this idea of being included in the narratives audience out there. you're going to see this question pop up on the screen and then we'd love to have you weigh in. so once you see a public you'll see some instructions on the bottom vote take part in this conversation and then we can jump off of that. the question here we're asking is to what extent do you feel included in the narratives and the images that define american civic identity so all of these institutions secretary bunch and ken burns have been talking about the way we remember and define our own history. so what extent do you feel included in all of those narratives and images you can multiple choice so it's either very somewhat or not at all. go

steve went to sam to crystal springs, mississippi. sam is on the republican line go ahead. >> caller: i'm sitting here looking at the sky, he looks like a total joke. stuart, you can call in and agree or disagree with our guest. but do not call into insult the looks or the background of our guests. that is beyond the realm of civilized conversation. we'll go to market in fort lauderdale, florida good morning. >> hello. as always thank you especially happy to be able to get through to mr. wolf. hello? >> host: you are on the air. >> mr. wolf, a moment ago you stated something of a critical critical thing. that is who stole the election paid what in the world? how would someone fill a hole in national election broken down into states, broken down into counties, broken down into cities. no one ever really can point that out, outside of trump saying he's going to say something in the future. that being said hope you keep writing and i hope you keep following. i think your next book should be about how people taking trump is him down into

1927 brought suit after his 9-year-old american-born daughter was denied entry into a white school in mississippi. the court affirmed her exclusion based on its line of cases approving separate but equal schools for blacks. after the bombing of pearl harbor, 120 persons of japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in the interior united states on the belief that they posed a threat of espionage and sabotage. in 1982, 27-year-old vincent nng was beaten to death in detroit by two white auto workers because they blamed him for the success of japan's auto industry. there are ways in which asian americans are viewed either overtly or just under the surface as other and forever foreign based solely on the way we look. today, given events of the past year, many within the asian american community are frightened for themselves and their family. i'd like to start by asking you can you talk about the scope of this problem? why has there been a resurgence in anti-asian violence and why are asian americans afraid to go outside now? >> because president trump blamed the coronav

proclamations and legislation from davis himself to his vice president alexander stevens and his old rival from mississippi days henry foote from across the confederate congress and state legislatures. business leaders also planned as evidenced by the proceedings or wartime conventions of planters merchants and stockholders of railroad corporations whose deliberations were eagerly anticipated in the correspondent. dandari's of private citizens men and women including rose greenhow, augusta, jane evans and marina davis throughout the war, very undiplomatic diplomats would express similar ambitions via cypher in state department correspondence, and then these ideas were frankly disclosed and commented on in editorials in newspapers and more at length in pamphlets and even a novel what united this these range of voices and media was that they believed while the civil war raged on that they were on the threshold of a new great power arriving on the world stage. what i first had to learn was how confident the plans were that the moment of securing their independence lay just ahead in time. they were convinced t

when civil rights came into existence every member of my family in mississippi on both sides switched from being democrats to being republicans. if you look at a state now, every southern state now is red, and that's why. so it's totally disingenuous to say, you know, that the democrats created all this problem, and it is true that democrats started this, but they all became republicans after civil rights. okay, i'm done with that one. next thing, i read you and you say your kind of libertarian but here's one thing i found this morning. things adults shouldn't believe in anymore. there's a picture of santa claus, there's a picture of the easter bunny, the tooth fairy and anthony fauci. and what you're doing -- everything on here is right-wing and the dems are out to get your money, the dems are out for this, and that's absolutely not true. you're just coming on there and you look like a really -- and you come across really decent guy that looks at both sides. but when i read the comments and the posts on your site, they are not anywhere but far-right. >> thanks, steve. >> i think i li

board daughter was denied entry to a white school in the rose deal consolidated school district of mississippi. the court affirm the exclusion based on the line of cases -- after the bombing a brawl harbor, two thirds of whom like my parents, were american citizens were forcibly removed from the west homed and incarcerated in the interior of the united states. on the belief that they posed a threat of espionage and sabotage. finally, but not finally, in 1982, 27-year-old chinese american vincent yang was beaten to death in detroit by two white autoworkers, one that had been laid off because they blamed him for the success of japan's auto industry. thus, no matter how long asian americans have work to build, and contribute to this country, and no matter who we are as our panelists can certainly address, there are ways in which asian americans are viewed either overtly or under the surface as either. after every foreign, they solely based off of the way we look. today, given the events and the past year, many within the asian american communities are frightens with themselves and their family. s

>> gulfport, mississippi is next. austin, democrat, good morning. austin, are you with us? we'll to go samantha here in washington, d.c. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. two points. i'm a native. i'm african-american. at one point i was a republican. when the klan took over the party, i became a democrat and proud to be. my concern is the lies that are being perpetrated by the likes of the current governor, the lieutenant governor in texas, the governor doesn't run the state. the lieutenant governor runs the state. and this guy is quite questionable. this dan patrick, who was out -- who is out of the state of maryland, who has a strange, shady background and it is coming to texas and had a talk show like alex jones. and it's very racist and anti-anything that would be democratic or would give people their rights. he along with paxton, the attorney general, who has been under federal indictment since 2017, i believe, maybe earlier than that, on criminal fraud charges and so forth. and of course, trump's justice department did not want to press the issue. and these are peop

., south bend, tuscaloosa, jackson, mississippi. florida, virginia beach, iowa, representing. denver, colorado, wilmington, delaware, massachusetts, it is a national audience that is excited to hear you speak. changing gears, because we have a few questions about martin luther king, so i will save that. you have a great story about a boy from troy. could you talk about your introduction to him and your impression of him as a young man? >> john lewis was from troy, alabama and lived in a rural area south of montgomery. about 50 or 60 miles south of tuskegee. he had heard about dr. king and read about him in the bus boycott in 1958. he wanted to go to georgia state , which was a white college, in his home county. and they would not accept him. some of the kids down there tried to use the library and could not use the public library. he sends a letter to dr. king and said he wanted to talk with him about going to tri-state. -- troy state. dr. king sent him a bus ticket from troy, alabama, round trip to montgomery. he called me and told me when he would arrive at the bus station.

, the stuff that sticked in my mind is the physical courage of being a criminal defense attorney in mississippi, alabama, western florida, and the physical risk he took. he told the story about almost getting lynched once himself. told the story about clients who were lynched and talked about being tuck in the backseat of a supporter's car and drive in the middle of the night to another home just to say safe. all the while he's telling jokes about this. i remember one time he said how can you tell there's an easy way to tell if the question has been coerced, ask the question, how big was the cop. he tells the story joke being a member of the legal team about who will if you haven't read "devil in the grove" is what captures what it is to have these "to kill a mockingbird" moment as a defense attorney in the 50s. >> the story i remember most is the story about his experience in tennessee. after world war ii, there was black veterans defending themselves, resorted to arms, they were charged with various crimes, he went, defended them. , got most of them off, the local police were angry with him,

area, montgomery, south bend, tuscaloosa, jackson, mississippi; florida, virginia beach, iowa, as i mentioned western reserve as well represented, denver colorado, wilmington, delaware, massachusetts, obviously a national audience is excited to hear you speak. changing gears a little bit because i have a feeling we will have a few questions about martin luther king so i will save that one. you have a great story about the boy from troy. could you talk a little bit about your introduction to him and your impression of him as a young man. >> yes, john lewis was from troy, alabama. he lived a rural area about 50 miles south of montgomery and about 50 to 60 miles tuskegee. and he had heard about dr. king and read about him in the bus boycott -- boycott. this was 1958. he wanted to go to troy state, which was a white college in his home county. they wouldn't accept him. some of the kids down there tried to use the library, and they couldn't use the public library. so he wrote a letter to dr. king and said he wanted to talk with him about going to troy state. dr. king him sent him a bus ticket from