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This should be interesting:
With the approach of President Obama's first anniversary in office, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews and Dallas radio talk-show host Tom Joyner will host a televised forum Monday night titled Obama's America: 2010 and Beyond at Texas Southern University's Granville Sawyer Auditorium.
MSNBC will air the invitation-only event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day from 9 to 11 p.m.
Topics will include challenges associated with racial equality, such as the burden of being the first to break a racial barrier and whether racial attitudes or voting patterns change as generations change. Producers also expect to discuss the impact of last week's earthquake in Haiti.
Matthews, host of MSNBC's weekday Hardball show, said producers targeted a historically black college as the best place for the discussion.
“You have to do it in a setting where it is academic and where students are used to these discussions and they're more liable, being young and academic, to jump into a conversation that is about sociology,†he said.
He compares the magnitude of change over the last decade to imagining the reaction of a modern-day Rip Van Winkle.
“If you had fallen asleep in the midst of the dispute over Florida (in 2000) and had woken up to realize that the Supreme Court had intervened in that case, had picked the president, that we had a war started that led to his extreme unpopularity, that we had elected a Democratic Congress and the first African-American president of mixed background who was extremely popular and that the Republicans had gone into a kind of retreat mode, would you have predicted that 10 years ago?†he said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6820683.html
With the approach of President Obama's first anniversary in office, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews and Dallas radio talk-show host Tom Joyner will host a televised forum Monday night titled Obama's America: 2010 and Beyond at Texas Southern University's Granville Sawyer Auditorium.
MSNBC will air the invitation-only event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day from 9 to 11 p.m.
Topics will include challenges associated with racial equality, such as the burden of being the first to break a racial barrier and whether racial attitudes or voting patterns change as generations change. Producers also expect to discuss the impact of last week's earthquake in Haiti.
Matthews, host of MSNBC's weekday Hardball show, said producers targeted a historically black college as the best place for the discussion.
“You have to do it in a setting where it is academic and where students are used to these discussions and they're more liable, being young and academic, to jump into a conversation that is about sociology,†he said.
He compares the magnitude of change over the last decade to imagining the reaction of a modern-day Rip Van Winkle.
“If you had fallen asleep in the midst of the dispute over Florida (in 2000) and had woken up to realize that the Supreme Court had intervened in that case, had picked the president, that we had a war started that led to his extreme unpopularity, that we had elected a Democratic Congress and the first African-American president of mixed background who was extremely popular and that the Republicans had gone into a kind of retreat mode, would you have predicted that 10 years ago?†he said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6820683.html