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The Speech that Made Obama President Video THNKR 30 August 2012
In 2004, a one-term senator from Illinois took the stage to deliver the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
By the time Barack Obama had finished speaking, Democrats across the country knew they had seen the future of their party.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY
United States > from confederation to nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/
@POTUS
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/20/
Why America Is Just Okay NYT 1 July 2019
Why America Is Just Okay Video NYT Opinion The New York Times 1 July 2019
America is the greatest country on earth.
It’s a phrase, a slogan, a dogma for patriots.
And as we stare down the barrel of an upcoming election, we’re prepared to hear this refrain echo.
In the video Op-Ed above, we argue that the myth of America as the greatest nation on earth is at best outdated and at worst, wildly inaccurate.
Comparing the United States of America on global indicators reveals we have fallen well behind Europe — and share more in common with “developing countries” than we’d like to admit. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mjef8NsNfU
America
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/09/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/20/
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/01/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/
rural America
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/06/
USA > BBC > Letter from America by Alistair Cooke UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp
Trump's America
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/
violence
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/09/
Americana > folk songs
https://www.npr.org/2012/07/04/
'America first' UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/28/
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/21/
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/20/
God bless America
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/
Americanism UK
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/03/
Dearborn, Michigan G 4 August 2017
Dearborn, Michigan Video The Guardian 4 August 2017 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoVHfqxHio
American UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/07/03/
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/aug/04/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoVHfqxHio - Guardian - 4 August 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/aug/04/
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/03/21/
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/03/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/
American UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/10/
American identity
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/
American icon
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/
American anthems
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/07/03/
un-American (adjective)
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/
hyphenated American > German-Americans
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/
anti-American UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/10/
un-American
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/
I am an American
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
the American idea
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/
American idealism
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/
native American
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/13/
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/feb/17/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/31/
native American > Navajo / Navajo nation
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/
a nation of immigrants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/
become American
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/
America’s Red States
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/
the land of the free
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUZO8ffNcpg
a / the land of opportunity
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/11/
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/24/
rust belt
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/
US Supreme Court “equal justice under law” http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/constitutional.aspx
E Pluribus Unum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/26/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY - 30 August 2012
eagle http://www.gocomics.com/stevebenson/2016/11/09
bald eagle USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/
I'm a Black Cowboy. This is My Story. The New York Times 5 August 2020
I'm a Black Cowboy. This is My Story. Video Op-Docs The New York Times 5 August 2020
Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed — scholars estimate that in the pioneer era, one in four cowboys were black. The historian Quintard Taylor writes about how before then, enslaved people "were part of the expansion of the livestock industry into colonial South Carolina, passing their herding skills down through the generations and steadily across the Gulf Coast states to Texas." In Dillon Hayes's "All I Have to Offer You Is Me," we meet Larry Callies, who comes from a long line of cowboys. Growing up in Texas, Callies dreamed of becoming like Charley Pride, the first African-American inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame. As with the cowboy, there’s an assumption of who makes up country music, despite its diverse history. The breakthrough of artists like Lil Nas X, Jimmie Allen and Kane Brown has returned attention to the contributions of black artists to the genre. Callies’s journey shows what we lose when we don’t acknowledge the full breadth of history.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlLNIGIbd0
cowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlLNIGIbd0
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/05/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/08/21/
http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/09/03/
yeehaw
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/
gun
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/
gunslinger
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/
gunslinging
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/
old West
https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/
wild West
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/
The Wild Wild West is an American Western espionage and science fiction television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 11, 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
American West / the West
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/
Indians
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/
Yankee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#Early_usage http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/nathan-bedford-forrest.html
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/
the American South
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
the South
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/07/25/
Southern
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/07/25/
Southern roots
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
Southerners
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/
the Jim Crow South
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/us/
in the Jim Crow South
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/
1944 > in the Jim Crow era of the South
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/mar/22/
during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation in the US > The Negro Motorist Green Book, published 1936-1964
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/feb/27/
Jim Crow
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html
https://www.virginiahistory.org/collections-and-resources/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2016/oct/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/10/18/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-09
Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws.
It was a way of life.
Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens.
Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism.
Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation.
Craniologists, eugenicists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, at every educational level, buttressed the belief that blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to whites.
Pro-segregation politicians gave eloquent speeches on the great danger of integration: the mongrelization of the white race.
Newspaper and magazine writers routinely referred to blacks as niggers, coons, and darkies; and worse, their articles reinforced anti-black stereotypes.
Even children's games portrayed blacks as inferior beings (see "From Hostility to Reverence: 100 Years of African-American Imagery in Games").
All major societal institutions reflected and supported the oppression of blacks. http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm
https://americanhistory.si.edu/ https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm https://www.nps.gov/malu/learn/education/jim_crow_laws.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/04/10/
Ku Klux Klan KKK
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/us/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/
redneck
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/06/
jazz
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/22/
Hollywood
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/01/
jeep
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/
New Black Panther Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/
“In God is our trust” http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx
national motto > "In God We Trust,"
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/
https://www.youtube.com/
characters, personifications > USA > Uncle Sam
Pledge of Allegiance USA
`I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'
The words are familiar.
Many, if not most, U.S. schoolchildren say The Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
But most Americans probably don't know the history of those words, and the changes they've gone through over time.
In particular, that the words "under God" weren't added until 1954.
Pledge Timeline
The Pledge is introduced to celebrate Columbus's discovery of America. It is written by magazine editor and Christian Socialist, Francis Bellamy and reads: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all."
As immigration debates heat up in the United States, The National Flag Conference, sponsored by the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changes "my Flag" to "the flag of the United States of America."
Congress formally recognizes the pledge and includes it in the federal Flag Code.
Congress changes the official stance of pledge takers to the right hand over the heart — the previous stance, one hand extended from the body, was too reminiscent of the Nazi salute.
Congress adds the words "under God" to the pledge.
The Knights of Columbus lobbied for the change. http://www.pbs.org/now/society/religionstats2.html
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-14/ http://www.pbs.org/now/society/religionstats2.html
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/29/
Alamo
Texans or Texians, according to some sources, began fighting for independence from Mexico in 1835.
By December the small Texas army had captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo.
Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna recaptured the town on March 6, 1836, after a thirteen-day siege; the Mexican army suffered an estimated 600 casualties.
Of the official list of 189 Texan defenders, all were killed.
Historians continue to debate the number of defenders inside the Alamo.
The defense of the Alamo is well-known for those who fought for Texas.
David Crockett, James (Jim) Bowie, and William Barret Travis were among those remembered by the "Remember the Alamo" reported to be yelled at the victory at San Jacinto. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar06.html
https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/alamo https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/alamo/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-Rj7k3U8U
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/
On Donald Trump’s Immigration Ban cartoon Patrick Chappatte NYT JAN. 31, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/
Steve Benson cartoon Gocomics November 14, 2015 http://www.gocomics.com/stevebenson/2015/11/14
Statue of Liberty - October 28, 1886
https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/077_stat.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/ http://www.gocomics.com/jeffstahler/2017/01/31 http://www.gocomics.com/robrogers/2017/01/31
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/29/ http://www.gocomics.com/michaelramirez/2017/01/21
http://www.gocomics.com/viewsoftheworld/2016/12/06 http://www.gocomics.com/glennmccoy/2016/11/30 http://www.gocomics.com/viewsoftheworld/2016/11/18 http://www.gocomics.com/viewsbusiness/2016/11/09
Ellis Island USA > late 19th / early 20th century > Immigration > Ellis Island
melting pot
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/
German America
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/
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Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues
APRIL 28, 2015 The New York Times Eduardo Porter
Thirty-five years ago, the United States ranked 13th among the 34
industrialized nations that are today in the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development in terms of life expectancy for newborn girls. These
days, it ranks 29th.
Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues,
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