One Nation Divisible: What America Was & What it's Becoming

The Institute for the Study of Social Change and the Goldman School of Public Policy present:

One Nation Divisible:
What America Was and What it is Becoming

Michael Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

with Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy,
UC Berkeley, as respondent

Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton), the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; he also has held a fellowship from the Open Society Institute. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Society of American Historians.

Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a member of the faculties of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ucberkeley
• university
• california
• berkeley
• public
• policy
• yt:quality=high

[danielcooper1000]

We will not find justice at the hands of corrupt judges. (See YouTube videos) Judicial Benefits & Court Corruption Update / Evil Triangle of Court Corruption / Richard fine / Dr Shirley Moore slush funds /SBX 211. To end this title wave of corruption in our country must start with the corrupt judges. We can not bring evidence of corruption to corrupt judges. Los Angeles Superior Court judges are illegally and unconstitutionally taking 50,000.00 each for a total of 23 million per year.

[denlee87]

@subesne I do not believe it to be an insult to black people to speak historical truths. Although blacks have the intelectual abilities and other traits to succeed in America it does not overshadow the fact that they have been if not victims subjugated under white supremecy the past 500 years. Even with equal ability the resources are unequal and that is what fascilitates the divide. I do agree that we are all human!!

[apJAzzfusiondruMmer]

robert b reich. FIREPLUG

[subesne]

The comments are limited to just a few characters, so I to kept it brief 3 months ago. You cannot object to what I said, for I only spoke the truth.

[subesne]

--conclusion--I became angry listening to this lecture because I think it is an insult to people of color to not respect their strengths and potential, to just classify them as victims. To not acknowledge the many beatuiful people of color who are out there every day living right. President Obama symbolizes a new era--a time for all of us to remake America to be even better, and that means fixing the problems in our poor neighborhoods. We are united in our humanity.

[subesne]

--cont--My sis-in-law spouts off the racist line that the standards must be lower for Blacks because they cannot rise above their circumstances. It always makes me furious. She voted against Obama, no doubt because he proves her pet theory wrong. We have a cousin who is a  Welfare bastard machine, and her oldest is already in prison, and I resent her. My next door neighbor, who is Black, is a fine person, a camera-man for a local TV station, and I would welcome him into the family, if I could.

[subesne]

--cont-- I would not care if my taxes stay high if they support something good, like American infrastructure and strong communities. Drug treatment. Sex-education that teaches reality instead of religious-based abstinence-only bullcrap. Mental health care. Welfare to the truly disabled--not just the perpetually pregnant. Schools that teach critical thinking and self-respect. A cultural shift to valuing literacy and common sense And yes, disapproves of and does not subsidize bad behavior.

[subesne]

--cont--Two wrongs do not make a right. Corporate welfare is wrong, and so is the welfare system that keeps people down rather than making them productive. Take away the corporate subsidies for the richest and most profitable companies and instead give them incentives to give affordable on-site child-care to the bastard machine to get out there and work for her dollars. Teach them skills, apprentiships. Make some change to the system so healthcare is available for anybody who works.

[subesne]

--continued-- It is like a slap in the face to people who get out there every day and work and contribute positively to their families and communities. What does the working person get? Over $1000 of every paycheck that I earn is forfeited in taxes. That is >$2000/month. It is used to subsidize bad choices--bastards, drug addicts, boozers, crooks. Over over multiple generations. Corporate crooks, too. You throw out my objection to tax $ wasted on human parasites by asking about the other.

[subesne]

--message continues-- Martin Luther King said to judge a person by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. OK, will do. If a neighborhood is plagued by crime, drug/alcohol abuse, absentee fathers, then it is logical to say there is a problem. I know a 20 year old mother of five who is preg with her 6th baby. That is not good for her or her kids, or anyone else. Yet I hear somebody like this speaker lower the standards of character for a situation like that, and I get mad.