Posted on 10/27/2008 1:09:58 AM PDT by rom
Edited on 10/27/2008 2:37:08 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I think I found the source audio stream. Notice there are interviews from Rashid Kalidi that month as well. I don't have Real Audio on my machine. Can someone save these before they get "cleaned"?
http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/od_rasep01.asp
Admin Mod update:
From the site: Summary of Discussion
Slavery and the Constitution
Richard John - Associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Barack Obama - Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago
Jan Lewis - Professor of history at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming book Women, Slaves, and the Creation of a Liberal Republic
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Taped panel September 6, 2001:
The September 6, 2001 tape is of a radio interview/panel where Barack Obama - Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago is heard discussing the Constitution, USSC partially with regard to slavery.
At 44 minutes into the tape: phone caller asks about fairness of Constitution
Illinois State Senator Barack Obama responds at 46:24:
The Constitution reflects deep flaws in American culture ... the Constitution reflected enormous blind spot of those days which continues to this day...
There are fundamental problems (in the Constitution which) ... were still grappling with today ...
time 42: Barrack discusses whether if we would have a healthier political process if we had mandatory voting, where there this is a fine (like Austrailia), but it is unlikely to work in this country since people may prefer to sit home and watch the ‘xfl’ (?). 2nd clip/post #3.
Good work! The XFL — LOL, that was circa 2001 wasn’t it?
A short version on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
The original show is from the January 18, 2001 Chicago Public Radio show Odyssey. Their audio archive is here:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_rajan01.asp
The 52min audio of the entire show is here:
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/od/od-010118.ram
3rd clip: people vote for a person of the same race,
historically, people who are in power there main criteria for drawing districs is staying in power.
It is difficult when the Supreme Court was looking at majority/minority districts, concerning staying compact etc., the tradition of map line drawing was full of holes. So, we don’t have a clear baseline on how to draw districts.
housing segregation patterns, the lack of diversity in voting districts is created by housing patterns. Alot is determined by housing segregation.
When you get a district with even plurality by race, often time in those districts you will often have a white candidate represent those districts. So, therefore, while it would be nice to think it would equal competition for representation, it is not.
Although later he said that it would not hold up with the voting right act because there is strong evidence that show that whites are willing to vote for a minority candidate.
Great finds HollyB ... do you have a time index for this in the audio stream?
Admin Moderator — can we update this story? Or should HollyB create a new thread with her findings which are separate from this one?
Thank YOU!
You’re welcome. Couldn’t risk you missing out on such a big scoop.
“Couldnt risk you missing out on such a big scoop.”
After I saw this thread, I’m hearing the talk show hosts talk about this, which is GREAT!
Has a freeper made transcripts of these shows?
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