Annette Gordon-Reed speaks about the significance of the first African American family in the White House for race relations in the US.
Annette Gordon-Reed was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History for "The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family". She is Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers, USA
Annette Gordon-Reed was in Australia in April 2009 for a Sydney Ideas lecture on "Barack and Michelle Obama: Rewriting the Narrative of American History". The lecture was co-presented with The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the United States Studies Centre and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) at the University of Sydney.
The founding fathers are spinning in their graves.
They wanted the USA to remain an Anglo-Saxon country. Now we dont even have an Anglo-Saxon majority...
This America has nothing to do with the traditional authentic Anglo-Saxon America.
EnglishEthnicPride2 10 months ago