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we're also making the second summit a success officials from Pyongyang and

Washington are about to get busy in discussing the details and agenda for

the meeting our Park Yuchun reports

North Korea and the US are expected to begin their second round of negotiations

as early as Thursday to discuss the agenda for their upcoming summits

according to the Washington Post US Special Representative for North Korea

Stephen beacon arrived in Hanoi late Wednesday evening

the report says vigan will hold talks with his counterpart Kim Akhtar to

clinch a detailed agreement that satisfies President Trump and withstands

the concerns of hardliners who warned that the north is not to be trusted

North Korea Special Representative for US affairs of the state affairs

commission Kim Yorkshire also arrived in the Vietnamese capital on the same day

after flying via Beijing he was accompanied by Kim song a head of the

unification strategy office at the United Front apartments and check on air

the acting director general for the foreign ministry's North American

affairs department in their first meeting in Pyongyang earlier this month

the two sides reportedly discussed the north shutdown of its younger nuclear

complex and Washington's corresponding measures setting up a joint liaison

office declaring an end to the Korean War and the easing of sanctions vigan

revealed afterwards that they did set the summit agenda but have yet to decide

on the details with only a week remaining until the second North Korea

US summits the two sides are expected to sort out those details and lay the

groundwork for the Hanoi declaration to be adopted by Kim jong-un and president

Trump packagin arirang news

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BraveHeARTS Veteran Art Therapy Program – Training Emerging Artists from our United States Veterans - Duration: 4:47.

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The BRAVEHeARTS Program has been a collaboration

between the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach

and the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center.

We were approached by the Armory with this idea

to use art to help heal our veterans.

Since we have a Arts for Healing Program started with our youth,

we... the Board decided that what can we do for adults,

and the first thing we thought of were the veterans.

Through the BRAVEHeARTS Program with the Armory Art Center,

we are encouraging veterans to find another outlet.

I have a lot of veterans that I have worked with

that feel comfortable coming to the VA Medical Center

for their care,

but we want to get them more integrated in their communities.

And doing that through the arts

has been a very natural progression.

Getting them comfortable in creating art,

going to a community art center,

feeling part of that community base,

has been really healing and helpful for the participants.

So this therapy for me and others as we say

we... we... we have a group dynamics where we can laugh,

we can joke, and we speak the same language,

whether it be through the pain or our struggles,

but at the same time we motivate each other in here,

and we are being creative and productive at the same time.

Through these classes not only are they finding a home

for groups of veterans to... to come together

and have a shared experience,

but they are also finding community with the instructors

and the people that they are working alongside

with that may not be veterans,

but they are making these new connections in a space

that they probably wouldn't have come to on their own.

I have worked with the BRAVEHeARTS Program

for the ceramics component,

photography component,

painting component,

and now the metal work component,

and I find it very... very beneficial.

A lot of veterans because they struggle with PTSD,

the art helps them with their mental health

helps the right side of their brain

with visualization, it helps with so many things.

I have recently developed my art talent

that I have kind of been on the back-burner

while I was in the military,

and I heard about this and I said, I have never welded.

It sounded intriguing and I have never done metal sculpture

and I said it's a challenge.

I had the opportunity so I did.

The veterans are self-motivated people.

They are... they come in and they are ready to work.

Get... get the job done whatever it is.

In metal sculpture

there is a lot of tedious kind of boring stuff,

grinding, whatever.

These guys just went right after it, you know,

half-hour, 45 minutes grinding away without stopping, so...

It's a great class.

The welding class, I guess, just art in general

because I... I have never been an artist

and I have never been associated with anything like this;

and let me tell you, looking at that eagle,

gives me a lot of pride.

It's just like being in the military.

We've been utilizing teamwork

and everyone is trying to help, and pitch in

come up with a solution if there is an issue that comes up.

I... I had a major operation this year

and I thought it might be

helpful to work with some other guys

and get back on my feet a little bit.

I... I think the final project is going to really look nice.

Once we get it set, once we get it all polished up,

and everything, working on Sundays anyway,

it's going to be really nice!

In the long term they are going to have better success

in sense of achievements.

It helped them be more aware of themselves.

So, I would recommend it as a continued program ongoing,

and more veterans should be more engaged it.

The arts at the end of the day can...

can be challenging people.

They might say, I don't like art,

but if they would really honestly give it a chance,

they would see the real strong benefits of it.

I have been working with veterans for a long time,

and from working with them for years,

they never expected that art can actually

help transform their thinking

and help their mental health.

So, I always recommend it for any veteran,

if they are really give it a chance,

it would definitely help improve their mental health.

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Trump to leave 200 troops in Syria AFTER US withdrawal for UNSPECIFIED time - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 3:07.

Trump to leave 200 troops in Syria AFTER US withdrawal for UNSPECIFIED time

THE United States are set to leave 200 troops in Syria for a while after the withdrawal,

the White House confirmed today.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said this would be for peacekeeping purposes.

She said: "A small peacekeeping group of about 200 will remain in Syria for a period

of time."

In December, President Donald Trump ordered a withdrawal of the 2,000 US soldiers in Syria,

after the defeat of ISIS in the region.

However, he was urged to leave some forces to help protect Kurds, who supported the fight

against the terrorist group, now under threat from Turkey.

Therefore, 10 percent of the US military in Syria will remain after the withdrawal.

The decision was announced after Trump spoke to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the

phone.

A White House statement said that the two leaders agreed to "continue coordinating

on the creation of a potential safe zone" regarding Syria.

Ms Sanders added that Secretary of Defence Patrick Shanahan and Chairman of the Joint

Chiefs General Joseph Dunford would be hosting their Turkish counterparts in Washington this

week for further talks.

A senior administration official said Trump's decision had been in the works for some time.

It is unclear how long the troops will be expected to remain in the area or where exactly

they will be deployed.

However, this action could pave the way for allies in Europe to help set up the safezone

in northeastern Syria.

The senior administration official said: "This is a clear direction to our allies and coalition

members that we will be on the ground in some capacity."

The remaining forces could also help quell concerns that leaving Syria completely would

allow ISIS to gather strength again.

In December, the President announced: "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason

for being there during the trump presidency."

The Kurds, armed and supported by the US, have fought the majority of the battle in

Syria.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian/Syriac forces

has lost more than 1,500 men in the four-year fight to defeat the extremists.

Last year, as the fighting against ISIS slowed, Turkey sent forces to oust Kurdish militants

from an enclave in northwestern Syria.

The US, torn between their relationship with Turkey and the Kurds, refused to intervene,

leading the latter to claim they were "more mistress than bride".

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Trump, Abe discuss upcoming N. Korea-U.S. summit over phone - Duration: 0:33.

yes president Donald Trump has spoken with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

a about the upcoming summit between Pyongyang and Washington according to

Kyodo news agency the two allies during their phone call on Wednesday reaffirmed

their commitment towards achieving North Korea's complete denuclearization they

also asked Trump to raise the issue of Japanese abductees at the upcoming

summit and always said that Trump agreed to do so according to the Japanese

Foreign Ministry the two leaders agreed to have another phone conversation after

the summit

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Idiot Trump Has Started A New Cold War With Russia - Duration: 4:06.

Recently, as we all know, Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the inf treaty that

we had with Russia, uh, which was the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty.

It basically helped to end the Cold War, the signing of it, and it said, listen, we're

not going to create these intermediate range nuclear missiles to hit your country from,

you know, a little bit further away than what we could do now.

And Russia said, okay, that sounds good.

We won't do it either.

That's the gist of this treaty.

You know, we're not going to make these intermediate to long range nuclear missiles so that we

can hit you with a nuke from the comfort of our own home.

Trump pulled us out of that very weirdly and a lot of people were saying, well, this is

a gift of Bladimir Putin.

And as I said from the beginning, no it's not.

This is a gift to the defense industry.

But the reason I'm bringing this back up again is because yesterday Vladimir Putin announced

that any effort by the United States to move nuclear weapons closer to Russia is going

to be met with a similar response from Russia itself.

So if we move nukes closer to Russia, Russia's going to move nukes closer to the United States.

If we get closer to that, they're going to get closer than that.

We have once again entered this new Cold War, uh, you know, reminiscent of the Cuban missile

crisis, which this is exactly what happened during the Cuban missile crisis.

And it's all because of Donald Trump pulling us out of this treaty for no real reason whatsoever.

Now, the State Department claims that rush had been violating it, they'd been violating

it.

Unfortunately, they were not able to offer any concrete evidence to prove that Russia

was violating this treaty.

And let's keep in mind, you know, same State Department, different players for the most

part, some of the old players are still there, but it's the same State Department that swore

up and down that Saddam Hussein was creating weapons of mass destruction, that he had those

aluminum tubes in the yellow cake.

I'm sure we all remember those talking points that turned out to be completely false and

now we're supposed to trust those same people to tell us that know Russia was violating

a treaty.

So we're pulling out of it and now Russia says, okay, well you're going to end up putting

nukes closer to us, so we're going to put some nukes closer to you.

Once again, going back to the height of the Cold War and it is 100% because of Donald

Trump's stupidity.

Vladimir Putin is a lot of things, but one thing, he is not his stupid.

Donald Trump has a lot of things and on the top of that list is stupid.

Vladimir Putin has said he has no intention of striking the U s first because he understands

what that would mean if he were to hit us with a new key, knows he's going to get 10

more fired right back at him.

He is not an idiot, you know, not a great leader.

There's a lot of a questionable deaths that have happened from high ranking officials

and journalists.

The hands of the Russian government.

I'm not making any excuses for them.

They're really not that great.

They're not good people, but they're also not idiots.

Trump is, Trump's the kind of guy who, as we've seen from reports, is more than willing

to launch a nuclear first strike.

So what's going to happen when he finally gets pissed off and decides to do that?

This is not going to end well, and this is what you get when you elect a president who

has no idea how to be a statesman, no idea how to actually negotiate with other countries

in is relying on the same faulty intelligence officials who helped lie us into the Iraq

war.

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Putin's New Missile Threat Against America - Duration: 2:34.

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Who holds the power in potential U.S.-China trade war? - Duration: 5:26.

JUDY WOODRUFF: With U.S.-China trade negotiations now in high gear, President Trump recently

suggested that he might delay the latest round of tariffs on China, scheduled to take effect

March 1.

So, is the United States in a trade war with China, or not?

Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, explains, as part of our weekly series Making

Sense, which airs every Thursday.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: I love tariffs, but I also love them to negotiate.

PAUL SOLMAN: In any negotiation, as the president's book "The Art of the Deal" stressed, the key

question, who's got the power?

America, trying to suggest it does, has trotted out a major economic weapon, tariffs imposed

on Chinese products, taxes on goods coming into the country from China, that is.

Tariffs make Chinese exports more expensive by raising their prices here, which protects

American manufacturers from cheaper competition, punishes the Chinese and their economy.

China responded to the Trump tariffs in kind.

It retaliated with tariffs on American exports, targeting U.S. products from Trump strongholds,

soybeans, for example.

MAN: I have been in the news lately because I'm caught in the middle of a trade war involving

the two powerful countries of China and the United States.

PAUL SOLMAN: The result, in both countries, higher costs for consumers and businesses

which use imports, which is why most economists hate tariff wars.

The total costs, they insist, far outweigh the total benefits, short term and long, or,

as Chinese Internet billionaire Jack Ma put it:

JACK MA, Chinese Business Magnate: Trade war is the most stupid thing in this world.

PAUL SOLMAN: So, we impose tariffs, China does the same.

But is it an even tit-for-tat?

Yasheng Huang is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of management.

YASHENG HUANG, MIT Sloan School of Management: China is a disadvantage for two reasons.

One is that the total share of trade with Chinese GDP is much higher than it is for

the United States.

Secondly, Chinese economy is slowing down.

And the Chinese exporting industry employs a massive number of people.

So it's actually quite big on China, the Chinese economy.

PAUL SOLMAN: So China is not going to win the tariff game.

What other moves does it have?

How about a bond dump?

China holds more than a trillion dollars worth of U.S. debt.

If it sells off U.S. bonds, the market would be flooded, and the U.S. would have to offer

higher interest rates to lure investors to buy the new bonds we need to keep issuing

to cover our federal debt, growing at a rate of about a million dollars every 30 seconds

or so.

And higher interest rates would cost us a pretty penny.

But what would the effect be on China?

A bond dump has a huge downside, says Huang:

YASHENG HUANG: First of all, there will be other people who come in dying to get a piece

of that.

So that's not going to hurt the U.S.

Secondly, the Chinese are going to get hurt, because whatever that they have remaining

in their holding of the U.S. treasury is going to decrease in value.

PAUL SOLMAN: OK, another move: Squeeze U.S. firms now operating in China; 400-plus Wal-Marts

do business there, more than 5,000 KFCs, more than 3,300 Starbucks.

In fact, the U.S. trade deficit with China nearly vanishes once you include sales by

American firms there.

But how would pressuring U.S. firms or discouraging Chinese citizens from buying American affect

the Chinese economy?

YASHENG HUANG: If you go after foreign companies, you are going to increase unemployment in

the country.

The Chinese manufacturing industry is already experiencing problems.

The private sector of the Chinese economy is experiencing problems.

Doing an economic war to solve economic problems, this is a very, very stupid thing to do, because

you're hurting yourself.

PAUL SOLMAN: And other retaliatory options pose the same risk.

Pull back on the number of Chinese coming here for education?

Devalue their currency?

Hurts the Chinese more, right?

OK, so, finally, it's been suggested that China might make sweetheart trade deals with

other countries, including our allies, cozy up to the rest of the world economically,

that is, leaving us out.

But, again, not so fast, says Professor Huang.

Look what happened after the recent U.S. crackdown on Chinese telecom company Huawei as a national

security threat.

YASHENG HUANG: Australia now is restricting Huawei.

The latest news is Czech Republic is restricting Huawei.

I don't think they want to take on the Trump administration and ally with China against

the United States.

PAUL SOLMAN: And so, at last, we come to the bottom line: China seems at first to have

quite an arsenal of economic options.

But, in the end, they all seem more likely to backfire.

We know it.

They know it.

No wonder they are willing to negotiate.

I'm economics correspondent Paul Solman.

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US Congressman Steve King believes dog fighting should be LEGAL! - Duration: 3:01.

Congressman Steve King [R, Iowa] believes dog fighting should not be illegal in in the

United States.

His explanation for this baffling statement?

Since humans are allowed to fight, why not allow dogs as well?

'It's wrong to rate animals above human being' King opinatined during an interview

at a town hall.

'There is something wrong with society to make it a crime to watch dog fighting, but

there is no law that bans somebody to watch people fight'.

(An audio recording of his statement can be listened below in the video)

If we take King's statements into account, then society should be allowing animals to

enroll in university and get pets to pay their taxes.

The fundamental difference between humans and animals is that humans have a choice.

If a person wants to be a professional boxer, for instance, he is entering a bout fully

aware of what he is doing.

It is his choice.

Dogs are certainly not asked if they are willing to bite each other until they die just so

humans can be entertained.

Those dogs are defenseless, they are MADE to do this against their will!

UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Steve King is picking a fight with

the Humane Society of the United States.

On Jan. 29, the congressman from western Iowa tweeted the following: "The Humane Society

of the United States, I have long referred to as the vegan lobby, is raising money again.

Objective: animals = 2 people."

This tweet triggered a flurry of responses from people accusing King of supporting dog

fighting and being an animal hater.

That, in turn, prompted King to emphatically state that he does not support dog fighting.

Then he added one ill-advised suggestion: "You can check my record."

But we already know what his record show right?

– Read below: Unfortunately, Mr. King has a lot to catch

up.

I have also learned that this is not the first time Congressman King has sparked outrage

in the animal rights community.

In February 2010, King tweeted that he chased and shot a raccoon because the helpless animal

had tried to get into his house during a powerful storm.

In July 2012, King strongly opposed the McGovern amendment (in connection to the 1012 farm

bill) that would have established penalties for knowingly attending an animal fight and

for bringing underage children to such events.

King was also one of the members that voted against an upgrade of penalties for transporting

fighting animals across state lines in 2007.

I strongly believe in free speech, but Congressman King's assertions are simply outrageous

and unacceptable Plese share this with your friends and family.

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Americans detained in Haiti have returned to the US - Duration: 2:10.

Americans detained in Haiti have returned to the US

The five Americans, along with two foreign nationals and one Haitian, were arrested in Haiti over the weekend, Haiti Foreign minister Bocchit Edmond confirmed Monday.

On Wednesday evening, the Americans flew to Miami, a police source told the Miami Herald.

The Haitian daily newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, also cited a police source saying seven of the men who were arrested on Sunday in Haiti for possession of illegal weapons were "transferred to the United States."

CNN has not independently confirmed their arrival in the US.

What we know so far

Prime Minister Jean Henry Ceant told CNN that those who were arrested were "mercenaries" seeking "to target the executive branch of the government." He did not offer any further information to support this allegation.

The men were detained after being stopped during a routine traffic check. Their cars had no license plates and they initially resisted offering identification, according to Haitian authorities.

Haitian police say their cache of weapons included six pistols, six automatic rifles, two drones, five ballistic vests, three satellite phones, a telescope and several license plates. Automatic weapons are not permitted in Haiti.

Arrests amid protests

The arrests came as both Ceant and president Jovenel Moise face calls to resign by Haitians fed up with the countrys economic woes. The countrys capital, Port au Prince, has been rocked by two weeks of, which began February 7.

Moises administration has been under fire for soaring inflation and accusations of corruption.

Several people have been killed in the clashes, according to local media reports. CNN has not been able independently to confirm the exact number of those killed.

The State Department on Thursday issued a Level 4 "Do not travel" travel advisory for Haiti, citing "crime and civil unrest" and "widespread, violent, and unpredictable demonstrations in Port au Prince and elsewhere in Haiti."

All "non emergency US personnel and their families" were ordered to leave Haiti by the State Department, which said the country has "limited ability to provide emergency services to US citizens in Haiti."

"Protests, tire burning and road blockages are frequent and unpredictable," the advisory stated.

"Violent crime, such as armed robbery, is common. Local police may lack the resources to respond effectively to serious criminal incidents, and emergency response, including ambulance service, is limited or non existent."

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Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times - Duration: 4:13.

Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times

The number of hate groups in the United States rose for the fourth year in a row in 2018, pushed to a record high by a toxic combination of political polarization, anti immigrant sentiment and technologies that help spread propaganda online, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Wednesday.

The law center said the number of hate groups rose by 7 percent last year to 1,020, a 30 percent jump from 2014. That broadly echoes other worrying developments, including a 30 percent increase in the number of hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. from 2015 through 2017 and a surge of right wing violence that the Anti Defamation League said had killed at least 50 people in 2018.

Were seeing a lot of bad trends, Heidi Beirich, the director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in an interview on Wednesday. There are more hate groups, more hate crimes and more domestic terrorism in that same vein. It is a troubling set of circumstances.

Ms. Beirich said the increase in extremist activity tracked by her team began in earnest in the early days of the 2016 presidential election, when anxieties over immigration helped propel President Trump to the White House. Before that, she said, the number of hate groups had fallen for three straight years.

Trump has made people in the white supremacist movement move back into politics and the public domain, Ms. Beirich said. He is a critical aspect of this dynamic, but he is not the only reason why the ranks of hate groups are growing. The ability to propagate hate in the online space is key.

The center said in a statement that most hate groups in the United States espoused some form of white supremacist ideology, including neo Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, neo Confederates and white nationalists. It said the number of white nationalist groups jumped by almost 50 percent, to 148 in 2018 from 100.

For the purposes of its study, the center said it considered any organization whose leaders, activities or statement of principles attacks an entire class of people to be a hate group. Violence is not a prerequisite.

The centers findings run parallel to a in the United States that was issued last month by the Anti Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism.

That report said that right wing extremism was linked to every extremist related killing the group tracked in 2018, at least 50, and that jihadist groups were linked to none. It said that made 2018 the deadliest year for right wing extremism since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The law center and the Anti Defamation League both pointed to at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October as a symptom of the increasingly combustible mix of anti immigrant sentiment, violence and online conspiracy mongering.

The white supremacist attack in Pittsburgh should serve as a wake up call to everyone about the deadly consequences of hateful rhetoric, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the president of the Anti Defamation League, said in a statement accompanying its report. Its time for our nations leaders to appropriately recognize the severity of the threat and to devote the necessary resources to address the scourge of right wing extremism.

But the rise in anti immigrant sentiment had also created an equal yet opposite reaction, the Southern Poverty Law Center said. As the number of white supremacist groups rose, so did the number of radical black nationalist groups that espoused anti white, anti Semitic or anti gay and anti transgender views.

The center said the number of those groups had risen to 264 in 2018 from 233 in 2017, but it noted that the influence of black nationalism in mainstream politics was highly limited.

It did, however, point specifically to comments by the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who the center said echoed white supremacist myths of a looming white genocide in his rhetoric about President Trump, whom he has accused of planning genocide against African Americans.

Mr. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam have been connected to a organization, two of whose national leaders have been accused of sympathizing with Mr. Farrakhan and privately expressing anti Semitic opinions.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has tracked domestic extremism since 1971, but in recent years conservatives have accused it of politicizing its findings and falsely labeling right leaning organizations as hate groups.

The group paid dollar 3.4 million to Maajid Nawaz, a British campaigner against Islamic extremism who sometimes works with conservative anti Muslim politicians, after it included him on a list of anti Muslim extremists in 2016. Richard Cohen, the centers president, said in a that the inclusion of Mr. Nawaz on the list had been wrong.

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Putin Well target U.S. if Washington deploys missiles in Europe Reuters.com - Duration: 2:10.

Putin Well target U.S. if Washington deploys missiles in Europe Reuters.com

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Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times - Duration: 4:13.

Over 1,000 Hate Groups Are Now Active in United States, Civil Rights Group Says The New York Times

The centers findings run parallel to a in the United States that was issued last month by the Anti Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism.

The center said the number of those groups had risen to 264 in 2018 from 233 in 2017, but it noted that the influence of black nationalism in mainstream politics was highly limited.

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Vladimir Putin boasts hypersonic nukes can strike US in five minutes - News Live - Duration: 2:48.

Vladimir Putin has warned Donald Trump that Russian missiles could hit the US in just five minutes if tensions escalate

In a chilling message, the Russian president said he is not afraid to start a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis

And Putin claimed his country has the edge if it launches a strike first. In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war - and more than 50 years later relations between Russia and the US are strained as America may deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe

Putin has previously warned Moscow will match any US move by stationing its own missiles closer to the United States or by deploying faster missiles - or both

And speaking to Russian journalists, he said his country could deploy hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines which could lurk outside US territorial waters

He said: "(We're talking about) naval delivery vehicles: submarines or surface ships

"And we can put them, given the speed and range (of our missiles). in neutral waters

Plus they are not stationary, they move and they will have to find them." And he continued: "You work it out

Mach nine (the speed of the missiles) and over 1,000 km (their range)." The US State Department earlier dismissed Putin's warning as propaganda

Putin has said he does not want an arms race with the United States, but that he would have no choice but to act if Washington deployed new missiles in Europe

Some of these missiles might be able to strike Moscow within 10 to 12 minutes. Putin said his naval response to such a move would mean Russia could strike the United States faster than US missiles deployed in Europe could hit Moscow - because the flight time would be shorter

"It (the calculation) would not be in their favour, at least as things stand today

That's for sure." said Putin. Relations between Moscow and Washington were strained, he added, but the tensions were not comparable to those of the Cuban Missile Crisis

"They (the tensions) are not a reason to ratchet up confrontation to the levels of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s

"In any case that's not what we want," said Putin. "If someone wants that, well OK they are welcome

I have set out today what that would mean. "Let them count (the missile flight times)

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'Deserving' Stricker right fit as US skipper - Woods - Duration: 2:13.

Tiger Woods has welcomed the confirmation of Steve Stricker as the United States Ryder Cup captain, labelling his friend and sometime putting coach as "the overwhelming choice"

Woods is a member of the committee which selected Jim Furyk's successor and despite the 51-year-old becoming the first American without a Major to take the role, Woods is certain they have made the right choice for next year's match at Whistling Straits

Stricker has been as an assistant captain in the past three Ryder Cups and was captain of the winning US Presidents Cup team two years ago

The avowed Wisconsinite, who lives only an hour from the course, has named Furyk as his first vice-captain to try to win back the Cup from Pádraig Harrington's Europe team

"All of us felt that it was his time, that he was deserving," Woods said. "What he has done as the leader both in the Presidents Cups and Ryder Cups has been tremendous and we just thought that with his leadership and the way the guys follow Stricks, that he would be the best captain there is for 2020

The players were unanimous, they wanted him as their team leader and we felt the same way on the committee

Everyone knows he's such a nice guy, but beneath all of that exterior is this fieriness and he's also one of the more detail-oriented guys that we know of

" Woods was talking in Mexico City, where he will play in today's first round of the WGC Mexico

It is his first appearance in the country, but despite his eagerness to win his 19th World Golf Championship event, Woods made no secret of the fact that his eye is already on the Masters in April

Non-existent "Augusta started [being on my radar] probably back in October, November," Woods said

"Thinking about shots I would need, clubs I'd be using for the event. Last year's preparation was different and in previous years it was non-existent

" Woods is joined at Club de Golf Chapultepec by Rory McIlroy and four of the world's top five with Shane Lowry also in contention

Justin Rose, England's world No 1, is the most conspicuous absentee, choosing to skip the event after playing in Saudi Arabia earlier this month

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New Smyrna Speedway: Loris Hezemans impresses at his US debut - Duration: 3:45.

Speedweeks at the New Smyrna Speedway in Florida are an integral part of the start into the new racing season in the United States

The World Series of Asphalt takes place annually on the half-mile oval, which is located near the Daytona Beach

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series driver Loris Hezemans made his US racing debut this month at New Smyrna and was fast right from the beginning

The Dutch rider made his NASCAR Euro Series debut last year and finished fourth overall in the ELITE 1 Division

He also won the Junior Trophy, which is why he was guaranteed a race in the US. Hezemans drove a late model owned by former NASCAR Truck Series champion Mike Skinner at New Smyrna and convinced from the beginning

The 21-year-old scored a pair of third-place finish in seven races. Hezemans was successful in the Pro Late Model Divisionas he scored three top-five and six top-10 results during the week to collect the most successful performance by a European driver during Speedweeks

In the end, he was ranked third overall in the World Series of Asphalt - a respectable achievement because many American late model pros were also fighting for victory

"Speedweeks has been an amazing experience for me, I have learned a tremendous amount as well as proven that a European driver can be successful in the US," said Hezemans

"I would like thank Mike, Dustin and Jamie Skinner as well as the whole ATF & Gunslinger crew who have been simply great all week! And of course NASCAR and the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series for providing such competitive series in the US and in Europe

Racing NWES prepared me perfectly for the environment, the procedures and the rules I found here, greatly speeding up my adaptation to Pro Late Model racing

"I could hold onto the lead for about 8 laps until the No. 81 (car) came flying as he had really saved his tires very well, while I used them a little too much to come back to the front

I tried to defend second but the tires were too far gone. The final third place is still a great result, I am really happy with it

"We are looking to fight for the NWES Championship and win it! I think I can take a huge amount of experience and knowledge back home for our NWES oval race in Venray as well as hopefully open up possibilities to further race in the US and continue developing career in NASCAR

" The 2019 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season will kick off in Valencia, Spain on April 13-14 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo with the traditional Valencia NASCAR Fest

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Trump ISIS wife wont be allowed to return to United States - Duration: 5:32.

Trump ISIS wife wont be allowed to return to United States

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WASHINGTON ľ President Donald Trump said Wednesday that an American woman who was the bride of an Islamic State fighter and now wants to come home will not be allowed back in the United States.

I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country! Trump wrote on Twitter.

Muthana traveled to Syria and marriedáand hadáa child with an ISIS fighter and now wants to face the U.S. justice system.

But Pompeo said earlier Wednesday that Muthanaáis not an American citizen and "does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport," contradictingástatements by her familyáand her Florida based lawyer, who said she was born ináHackensack, New Jersey, in 1994.á

I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country!

Muthana, who was raised in Alabama, left the United Statesáto join ISISáfour years ago at ageá19. In Syria, she called for Americans to be attacked, and she spread the groupsápropaganda online.á

She is one of aboutá ľ the spouses and children of Islamic State militants ľáheld in a Kurdish run detention camp in northern Syria.á

Muthana is there with her 18 month old son.The childs father is not alive. Two of her previous husbands, both Islamic State militants, are also dead. Muthana is not allowed to leave the camp and has armed guards protecting her from Islamic State sympathizers.áShe is asking to be allowed to return to the U.S. to face due process.á

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"The government needs to engage with her, but not just her;áall of these people who joined ISIS" from the West, saidáHassan Shibly,áMuthanas lawyer.á

"If sheábroke the law, then the justice system can deal with her, and if she didnt break the law, she should come back anyway, so it can be determined if she is a threat."

This undated image provided by attorney Hassan Shibly shows Hoda Muthana, an Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State after becoming radicalized online. Muthana realized she was wrong and now wants to return to the United States, Shibly, a lawyer for her family said Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Photo11: AP

Shibly said Muthana has realized she made a mistake in movingáto Syria andáwants to return to the USAáto face justice and "pay any debts she has to society." He said she wants to speak out against the Islamic State and help de radicalize other Americans.

Muthana abandoned her family and fled to Syria iná2014, a year after she graduated from high school. She briefly studied at the University of Alabama Birmingham.

Shibly shared a letteráMuthana wrote this week in which she describedáherselfáas "naive, angry and arrogant" when she decided to journey to Syria.á

"During my years in Syria, I would see and experience a way of life and the terrible effects of war, which changed me," Muthana wrote. "Seeing bloodshed up close changed me. Motherhood changed me. Seeing friends, children and the men I married dying changed me. Seeing how different a society could be compared to the beloved America I was born and raised into changed me."

Shibly, executive director of the Florida Council on American Islamic Relationsáin Tampa, said it was not clear from a legal standpoint whetheráMuthanas "marrying into ISIS" could warrant a "material support charge" to Islamic State activities, which range from terroráattacks in the USAáand Europeáto beheadings in Iraq and Syria.á

Alan Dershowitz, a former Harvard law professor, said that if he were advising Muthana, he would tell her that coming back to the USAáwould be "risky."áDershowitzátold the New York Post her case would be a "close call" even if all she did was tweet and send emails.

Muthana claimedáto have had no contact with U.S. authorities, and Shibly said she can leave the camp only if the U.S. government asks for her release. Its not clear if it has.áU.S. immigration authorities were not available to answer questions about her case, including whether a U.S. citizen can be barred from entering his or her own country.á

In a briefing, State Department spokesmanáRobert Palladinoáwould not address Muthanas specific case, but said repatriating foreign terrorist fighters to their countries of origin was theá"best solution to preventing them from returning to the battlefield."

Pompeo subsequently issued theástatement Wednesday in which he claimed that Muthana was not a U.S. citizen and would not be allowed back in.

Shibly, however, provided USA TODAYáwith a copy of Muthanas birth certificate, which lists her place of birth as Hackensack, New Jersey.

A birth certificate provided by Hoda Muthanas attorney lists her place of birth as Hackensack, N.J. Muthana traveled to Syria and married, but now wants to return to the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says shes not an American citizen. Photo11: Submitted

Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas, said that Pompeo cant just assert that someone born in the U.S.áis not a U.S. citizen.

"I gather that the governments argument is that she was born to a diplomat who was in the United States on official business, and so was not entitled to birthright citizenship. Thats correct as a matter of law if its true, but its not true just because the government says so," he said in a Twitter message to USA TODAY.á

Only six American militants have returned from fighting or training with militant groups in Syria, according to , a Washington based foreign policy research institute.

All were taken into custody. Muthana may be the first American spouse or partner of an Islamic Stateáfighter who has sought to return home. The New York Times has reported that another woman, dual U.S. Canadian nationaláKimberly Gwen Polman, 46, is also in the al hawl refugee camp in Syria. She left Canada in 2015.á

A similar case in , 19, from London, whoágave birth to a baby boy over the weekend in the same camp where Muthana is held.

Begum, who left Britain for Syria at age 15 and married an Islamic Stateáfighter,áwants to return to Britain for the sake of her childs welfare, but British authorities, including the nations interior minister, indicated they might try to block her return. They might find that difficult to do because a British national cant theoretically be prevented from returning home unless that personáis also a national of another country. Begumáisnt.

The womans London based lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said Tuesday that the British governmentáinformed him that it is trying to strip Begum of her British citizenship.á

As for Muthana, "whether its a few years in jail, 20 years in jailáor no jail, shes open to the legal process, and shes not asking for a free pass, just due process," Shibly said.á

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Shades of U.S.: Ann Morning, Chelsea Green and the Pierre-Pierre Family - Duration: 26:46.

♪ [THEME MUSIC] ♪

>> WELCOME TO "SHADES OF US."

ON THIS EPISODE WE LOOK AT

THE GENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

OF RACE AND ETHNICITY,

THROUGH THE EYES OF A BLACK

SOCIOLOGIST WITH EUROPEAN AND

NATIVE AMERICAN BACKGROUND.

A MULTIRACIAL JEWISH MILLENNIAL

COLLEGE STUDENT AND MY OWN

CHILDREN WHO ARE MIX OF HAITIAN

AND WHITE.

WE START THE CONVERSATION WITH

ANN MORNING.

♪

>> MY NAME IS ANN MORNING.

I AM AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

OF SOCIOLOGY AT NYU.

I THINK OF MYSELF AS BOTH

A SOCIOLOGIST AND A DEMOGRAPHER.

THE QUESTION OF RACIAL AMBIGUITY

HAS BEEN A PART OF MY EXPERIENCE

SINCE MY EARLIEST CHILDHOOD.

I HAD A BABYSITTER

WHEN I WAS FOUR YEARS

OLD WHO ASKED ME WHAT RACE ARE

YOU, IS YOUR FAMILY WHITE OR

BLACK?

AT THE TIME, I DIDN'T KNOW.

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS

TALKING ABOUT.

I SAID I DON'T KNOW BUT I WILL

ASK MY PARENTS AND SHE SAID NO,

DON'T ASK YOUR PARENTS.

BUT OF COURSE, I DID THAT NIGHT

AT THE DINNER TABLE.

I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I ASKED

THAT QUESTION, ARE WE WHITE OR

BLACK?

I REMEMBER THIS

SILENCE DISSENTING ON THE ROOM.

I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT MY

PARENTS FELT.

THEY MUST'VE FELT LIKE THIS IS

THE END OF INNOCENCE.

MY DAD SAID WE ARE BLACK, HONEY.

I WAS LIKE OK.

FOR ME, IT MEANT NOTHING.

MY MOTHER AND MY DAD IN ADDITION

TO THEIR AFRICAN ANCESTRY

HAVE EUROPEAN AND NATIVE

AMERICAN ANCESTRY AND MY

MOTHER ALSO HAD ASIAN ANCESTRY.

THEY GREW UP VERY MUCH IN THE

ERA OF THE ONE DROP RULE SO

THOSE OTHER PIECES OF THEIR

ANCESTRY WERE NEVER SALIENT

FOR THEM.

MY PARENTS FELT VERY MUCH AT

HOME AT HARLEM.

BUT FOR ME, IT WAS A LITTLE

BIT OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC

EXPERIENCE BECAUSE WHEN I GREW

UP IN HARLEM, I WAS GOING EVERY

DAY TO SCHOOL AT AN

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, THE

UNITED NATIONS' SCHOOL IN

MANHATTAN.

I WENT THERE FROM KINDERGARTEN

THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.

THAT WAS A WORLD WHICH WAS NOT

ONLY VERY DIVERSE MUCH MORE SO

THAN HARLEM WAS BUT IT WAS ALSO

A WORLD WHICH DID NOT HAVE THE

SAME KIND OF IDEAS ABOUT RACE

AND RACIAL IDENTITY THAT THE

PEOPLE I KNEW IN HARLEM HAD.

IN HARLEM, I WAS JUST BLACK.

IT WAS UNREMARKABLE IN THAT

NEIGHBORHOOD AND I GOT SOME

TEASING FOR BEING LIGHT-SKINNED.

PEOPLE CALLED ME HIGH YELLOW AND

PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE ME BECAUSE

OF WHAT THEY THOUGHT I WAS LIKE

BECAUSE OF THE WAY I LOOKED SO I

WAS CONSCIOUS.

AT THE SAME TIME, GOING TO THE

UNITED NATIONS SCHOOL, I WAS IN

A WORLD WHERE GENERALLY PEOPLE

DIDN'T SEE ME AS BLACK.

MAYBE THEY WOULD SEE ME AS MIXED

AND I HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF

CLASSMATES WHO WERE FROM AFRICA

WHO WOULD SAY WHY DO YOU CALL

YOURSELF BLACK?

WE WOULDN'T CONSIDER YOU BLACK.

IN OUR COUNTRIES WE WOULDN'T

THINK OF YOU AS BLACK.

IT NEVER CROSSED MY MIND I

MIGHT NOT BE GOOD AT SOMETHING

BECAUSE OF MY BACKGROUND.

I DIDN'T GROW UP IN A SETTING

WHERE THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO LOOK

LIKE ME RETRACT INTO THE LOWER

TIER CLASSES.

I DIDN'T GROW UP IN A SITUATION

WHERE MY TEACHERS WERE ALL

WHITE, FOR EXAMPLE AND I DIDN'T

HAVE ANY ROLE MODELS OF COLOR.

I HAD FABULOUS MATH TEACHERS

FROM THE CARIBBEAN, FROM INDIA.

I WAS USED TO SEEING OTHER

PEOPLE OF COLOR HOLDING

IMPORTANT POSITIONS AND BEING

REALLY RESPECTED SCHOLARS,

AND TEACHERS.

I REALLY WENT TO COLLEGE WITH A

LOT OF CONFIDENCE THAT I THINK

ALL TOO OFTEN, KIDS OF COLOR IN

THE UNITED STATES DON'T GET.

THEY ARE TOO OFTEN IN SCHOOL

SYSTEMS WHERE THEY ARE MADE TO

FEEL EITHER LIKE OUTSIDERS OR

THEY ARE NOT REALLY EXPECTED TO

ACHIEVE.

MY PARENTS TALKED A LOT ABOUT

RACE.

THERE WERE LOTS OF DINNERTABLE

CONVERSATIONS.

I THINK MY PARENTS WERE THIS

KIND OF CLASSIC BLACK

BOURGEOISIE.

THEY WERE PRIVILEGED,

PROFESSIONALS AND THEY KNEW

THERE WERE OFTEN OPERATING IN

PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS WHERE THEY

WERE THE ONLY BLACK PEOPLE AND A

LOT OF WHAT CONSUMED THEIR

ENERGY WAS THIS

QUEST TO BRING OTHER

PEOPLE ALONG, TO DIVERSIFY THE

SETTINGS THEY WERE WORKING IN.

AS A KID, IT SEEMED INCREDIBLY

BORING.

I ALSO THOUGHT MY PARENTS

WERE LIVING IN ANOTHER ERA.

I THOUGHT THEY WERE HOPELESSLY

OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE TIMES

UNTIL I GOT TO COLLEGE.

I WENT TO YALE AND VERY QUICKLY,

I REALIZED MY PARENTS HAD BEEN

ONTO SOMETHING.

IN MY FRESHMAN YEAR OF

COLLEGE --

A WHITE STUDENT SAID

TO ME, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT

OF WHITE GUYS HERE WHO ARE

INTERESTED IN DATING BLACK WOMEN

AS THEY THINK THEY ARE

SEXUALLY EASY.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I WAS SHOCKED

TO HEAR THAT.

I HAD NEVER HEARD THAT AND THE

FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MIND

FOR ME WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, MY

STERN GRANDMOTHER FROM OHIO WHO

WAS THE LAST -- THE FURTHEST

THING AWAY FROM ANY KIND OF

PERMISSIVE PERSON.

I WAS IN COLLEGE AT THE TIME IN

THE TERM AFRICAN-AMERICAN GOT

PICKED UP.

IN FACT, I REMEMBER IT VIVIDLY

BECAUSE I STARTED COLLEGE AS

BLACK.

I DID A JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD IN

FRANCE AND I CAME BACK AND FOUND

OUT THAT I WAS AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

BY THE TIME I FINISHED COLLEGE,

I HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO SO MANY

DIFFERENT CLAIMS THAT DIFFERENT

PEOPLE MADE ABOUT HOW I SHOULD

IDENTIFY MYSELF -- I SHOULD SAY

I'M BLACK OR MIXED AND IN FRANCE

I LEARNED I SHOULD NOT SAY THAT

I AM BLACK.

I THINK IT MADE ME COME DOWN IN

A PARTICULAR PLACE FOR MYSELF

AND SAY I THINK OF MYSELF

LARGELY AS AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN

PERSON BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THIS

IS PART OF THE BLACK AMERICAN

EXPERIENCE.

IT'S TOTALLY CONSISTENT BEING

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BEING A

PERSON WHO HAS NON-AFRICAN

ANCESTRY.

THEY TOTALLY WORK TOGETHER.

BY THE END OF IT, I CAME OUT

FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE WITH MY

IDENTITY AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN

EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I WOULD

CONTINUE TO HAVE EXPERIENCES

WHERE PEOPLE MIGHT CHALLENGE

THAT.

I FOUND MYSELF ONE

NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY AS A

STUDENT READING SOME WORK FROM A

MID-20TH CENTURY ANTHROPOLOGIST

NAMED ASHLEY MONTAGU WHO HAD

WRITTEN A TERRIFIC BOOK,

CALLED " MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS

MYTH: THE FALLACY OF RACE."

HE TALKS ABOUT WHAT WE KNOW

ABOUT BIOLOGY AND HOW WHAT WE

KNOW ABOUT BIOLOGY EVEN AT THAT

TIME IN THE 1950s WAS ENOUGH TO

TELL US THERE WERE NO SUCH

THINGS AS DISCRETE, OBJECTIVE

RACISTS THAT HUMAN BEINGS AND

BIOLOGICAL VARIATIONS IN

HUMAN SPECIES IS SO BLENDED AND

GRADUAL AS WE MOVE ACROSS THE

WORLD THAT THERE IS NO KIND OF

SHARP LINE SPLITTING US UP INTO

CATEGORIES LIKE BLACK OR WHITE.

IT GOT ME THINKING THAT IF

PEOPLE KNEW THIS ALREADY ABOUT

HUMAN BIOLOGY, GENETICS, HOW IS

IT THIS MESSAGE IS NOT MORE

WIDELY SPREAD?

THAT QUEST TO UNDERSTAND

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MESSAGE OF

RACE BEING SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED

IS WHAT INSPIRED ME TO WRITE THE

BOOK "THE NATURE OF RACE."

I TRY TO STUDY WHAT IT IS PEOPLE

IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES HAVE TO

SAY ABOUT RACE AND HOW THEIR

MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THE

PUBLIC.

I WAS INTERESTED IN WHAT WAS

GOING ON WITH THE CENSUS, THESE

DEBATES ABOUT MAYBE THE RACIAL

CATEGORY OF THE CENSUS, MAYBE IT

SHOULD BE CHANGED TO BE JUST TO

HAVE PEOPLE IDENTIFIES A MIXED

RACE.

I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING

ON THE NATIONAL ADVISORY

COMMITTEE FOR RACIAL ETHNIC AND

OTHER POPULATIONS SINCE 2013.

SINCE THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT

TRUMP, MANY THINGS WE THOUGHT WE

WOULD BE ABLE TO DO HAVE BEEN

ROLLED BACK.

WE WERE ON TRACK TO REVISE THE

CENSUS QUESTIONS IN A WAY THAT

WOULD ALLOW FOR THE FIRST TIME

HISPANIC OR LATINO BOX AND

THERE WOULD BE A BOX FOR PEOPLE

OF MIDDLE EASTERN OR NORTH

AFRICAN ORIGIN AT

THE REQUEST OF PEOPLE IN THOSE

COMMUNITIES.

THE ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO

INTRODUCED A PLAN TO PUT

CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON THE

CENSUS.

ALL OF THESE THINGS I THINK ARE

GOING TO HAVE A VERY NEGATIVE

IMPACT ON HOW WE CAPTURE THE

RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY OF

THIS COUNTRY.

♪

>> COLLEGES AN INSTITUTION

PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE WORLD.

YOU'RE ABOUT TO MEET

A STUDENT WHO REACHES

BEYOND THE CLASSROOM.

HERE IS CHELSEA GREEN.

♪

>> MY NAME IS CHELSEA GREEN AND

I'M ONE QUARTER BLACK, THREE

QUARTERS WHITE.

SOMETIMES I GO INTO DIFFERENT

COMMUNITIES WONDERING IF I WOULD

FIT IN THERE.

I AM ALWAYS LOOKING I GUESS FOR

A SENSE OF THAT BELONGING.

I HAVE YET TO REALLY FIND IT IN

A RACIAL WAY.

I GREW UP WITH MY MOTHER, NOT MY

FATHER.

MY MOM SOMETIMES FELT LIKE SHE

NEVER FIT IN.

CERTAINLY RACIALLY AS A BIRACIAL

WOMAN, SHE PROBABLY IDENTIFIES

BEING BIRACIAL.

MY DAD IS AN ASHKENAZI JEWISH.

MY RACE IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN

WHAT I TELL PEOPLE.

I WOULD IDENTIFY MORE WITH A

MULTIRACIAL BECAUSE OF THE FACT

THAT THE ASHKENAZI JEWISH

ETHNICITY WAS SO MEANINGFUL AND

IMPORTANT TO THE EXPERIENCES OF

MY FAMILY MEMBERS.

EVEN SO BEING JEWISH IS NOT A

RACE, IT SOMEHOW FEELS MORE

APPROPRIATE TO SAY THAT I'M

MULTIRACIAL THAN JUST BIRACIAL.

MY MOM IS A VERY VIBRANT PERSON

AND SHE'S COMPLICATED IN MANY

WAYS AND I LOVE HER A LOT.

SHE GREW UP WITH TWO PARENTS,

HER MOTHER IS WHITE AND HER

FATHER WAS BLACK.

MY MOM NEVER FELT REALLY QUITE

WHITE ENOUGH OR QUITE BLACK

ENOUGH SO I, TOO, NEVER FELT

QUITE WHITE ENOUGH OR QUITE

BLACK ENOUGH.

IT FELT LIKE I JUST OCCUPIED ALL

OF THE CATEGORIES AND YET NONE

OF THEM.

I THINK GROWING UP WITH SOMEONE

SO CLOSE, YOU TAKE ON A LOT OF

THEIR VISION AND THEIR

PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD.

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP WITH MY

MOTHER, WE WATCHED A LOT OF NEWS

IN THE EVENINGS.

WHEN I CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL IN

HIGH SCHOOL, I SAT DOWN AND

STARTED MY HOMEWORK AND

BASICALLY WATCHED SEVERAL NEWS

BROADCASTS THAT GO BACK TO BACK.

I WATCHED NHK WORLD, RUSSIA

TODAY, BBC AMERICA, BBC WORLD,

AL JAZEERA TO SEE HOW THEY

PORTRAYED THE WORLD FROM MANY

DIFFERENT ANGLES.

MY WINDOW ON THE WORLD WAS

FAIRLY SMALL AND WATCHING THESE

NEWS OUTLETS AND THEIR TAKE ON

THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE THINGS

I HAVE NEVER SEEN WAS REALLY

IMPORTANT TO ME.

I GREW UP IN THE SAN FERNANDO

VALLEY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,

IT'S PART OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

FOR THE FIRST TIME I HOPPED ONTO

THE PLANE WAS WHEN I WAS 19

YEARS OLD TO COME SEE MY

BROTHERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN

MANY YEARS HERE IN NEW YORK

CITY.

MY BROTHER JONAH AND I WOULD GO

OUT FOR ICE CREAM WITH MY DAD.

IT WAS OFTEN JUST THREE OF US

AND SOMETIMES WE WOULD GET

TOGETHER WITH MY YOUNGER BROTHER

AUBREY.

AND WE WOULD ALL SPEND TIME

TOGETHER AND THAT WAS REALLY

MEANINGFUL TO ME.

THEY MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY.

I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEM FOR A

WHILE UNTIL I FINALLY CAME OUT

AND GOT TO VISIT THEM.

THE CULMINATION OF THESE FAMILY

EXPERIENCES SOMETIMES MAKES ME

FEEL LIKE I'M SO GRATEFUL TO

HAVE COME AS FAR AS I HAVE AND

I HAVE SOMETHING BIGGER TO

SERVE HERE.

I AM A PHD STUDENT AT HARVARD

UNIVERSITY, STUDYING

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

I WOULD SAY THAT MY EXPERIENCES

AND MY BACKGROUND INFORMED THE

KIND OF QUESTIONS I ASK IN THE

CLASSROOM AND THE QUESTIONS I AM

GOING TO ASK IN MY RESEARCH.

RECENT PEER RESEARCH DATA HAS

ILLUSTRATED THAT MILLENNIALS ARE

MORE CONSCIOUS ABOUT GENDER

INEQUALITY THAN PEOPLE FROM

PREVIOUS GENERATIONS.

I THINK THE SAME IS TRUE WHEN IT

COMES TO ISSUES AROUND RACE.

WHEN I SEE GRADUATE STUDENTS

AROUND ME TALKING ABOUT RACE AND

TALKING ABOUT GENDER INEQUALITY

AND MAYBE NOT SEEING PROFESSORS

DOING AS MUCH AS THE SAME THING,

I DON'T THINK THEY ARE

NECESSARILY DEVIATING FROM WHAT

THEIR GENERATIONS ARE DOING IN

GENERAL.

THE GOOD THING IS THAT BECAUSE

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT, THEY

ARE STARTING TO TALK ABOUT IT.

WHEN WE CALL IT OUT, THEY START

TO LISTEN.

I WAS PRIVILEGED TO TAKE A CLASS

WITH CONDOLEEZZA RICE, MY SENIOR

YEAR OF COLLEGE.

AFTER THAT CLASS WAS OVER, A FEW

PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED

THEY WANTED TO DO DIRECTED

READING WITH HER.

APPARENTLY, I WAS SELECTED

BECAUSE I WAS NOT AFRAID OF

ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS AND I

WASN'T AFRAID OF LOOKING STUPID

FOR ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS.

WE NEED TO BE ASKING QUESTIONS

THAT ARE UNCOMFORTABLE AND NOT

NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE OF

CONVENTIONAL VIEWPOINTS AND I

CARE ABOUT WHO IS NOT BEING

INCLUDED IN THE CONVERSATIONS

AND WHOSE INTERESTS ARE BEING

TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AND NOT INTO

ACCOUNT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE

AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS OR

WHOSE SECURITY WE ARE SERVING

AND SECURING.

THOSE KIND OF QUESTIONS ARE AT

THE HEART OF MY RESEARCH.

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ROLE

RACE PLAYS IN CONSTRUCTING AND

SHAPING OUR LIVES AND HOW WE

THINK ABOUT IT WHEN WE INTERACT

WITH OTHER PEOPLE SO THAT

WE REALIZE WHETHER OR NOT WE

ARE PERPETUATING INEQUALITIES OR

WHETHER WE ARE SAYING THINGS ARE

TRULY UNJUST TO OTHER PEOPLE.

♪

>> AS A PARENT, REACHING OUT TO

ONE'S CHILDREN CAN BE

CHALLENGING.

THIS IS A TALK I HAD WITH MY

BIRACIAL CHILDREN, MINA AND

CAMERON, ON THE TOPIC OF RACE.

♪

>> WANT TO START THE

CONVERSATION BY LETTING YOU GUYS

KNOW THAT WHEN I MET YOUR MOM IN

1988 AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

GETTING MARRIED AND I WAS AFRAID

OF THAT IDEA OF MARRYING A WHITE

WOMAN SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IN

1980s, I WAS NOT SURE I WANTED

TO BE PART OF AN INTERRACIAL

RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE OF THE

CHILDREN.

IN 2019, HOW DO YOU GUYS FEEL

ABOUT MY FEARS THEN AND THE

REALITY TODAY?

>> I THINK WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

HAVE A RELATIVELY NORMAL LIFE.

I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE'RE THAT

MUCH DIFFERENT THAN OTHER

FAMILIES WHO ARE NOT MULTIRACIAL

OR MULTICULTURAL.

>> PEOPLE DON'T REALLY

UNDERSTAND BIRACIAL MARRIAGES

AND BIRACIAL FAMILIES AND THE

NEED TO JUST WANT TO BLEND AND

MAKE YOUR FAMILY DIFFERENT.

I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I

HAD A TEACHER WHO ASKED ME IF

YOU AND MOM WERE RELATED BECAUSE

OF OUR LAST NAME.

IT WAS SO WEIRD TO ME.

I THINK I WAS LIKE FOUR OR FIVE

YEARS OLD.

I SAID MY DAD IS BLACK AND MY

MOM IS WHITE.

>> YOU WERE ALWAYS SORT OF LIKE

EXERTING, WANT TO LET

PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLACK.

WHY WAS THAT SO IMPORTANT TO

YOU?

>> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME

BECAUSE ANY TIME I TELL PEOPLE

THAT I AM HAITIAN, THEY ARE

SHOCKED.

THEY'D GENUINELY SHOCKED.

THEY WOULD NEVER BELIEVE I COULD

BE HAITIAN.

IT KIND OF BOTHERS ME THAT

PEOPLE CANNOT REALIZE THAT IN

EVERY COUNTRY, THERE CAN BE

MULTIPLE DIFFERENT RACES.

I FEEL LIKE I HAVE THE FEATURES

OF A HAITIAN PERSON.

I FEEL LIKE I RESEMBLE YOU

MORE THAN MOM.

IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT

PEOPLE KNOW I AM HAITIAN.

BUT I'M VERY LIGHT SKIN.

>> YOU HAVE A MUCH MORE NUANCED

VIEW ON THIS.

CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT WHEN

YOU WERE YOUNGER AND HOW YOU

FELT?

>> I CONSIDERED MYSELF BLACK OR

AT LEAST MIXED BLACK.

I DID NOT THINK ABOUT RACE

AS CRITICALLY AS I DO NOW.

IT WAS AROUND THE TIME OF WHEN

TRAYVON MARTIN WAS KILLED AND

THEN MICHAEL BROWN AND I STARTED

TO TRULY REALIZE THE EXTENT OF

INEQUALITY IN THIS COUNTRY

ESPECIALLY AS IT PERTAINED TO

RAISE.

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, THERE WERE

THINGS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE

SAID TO ME WAYS THAT PEOPLE

ACTED AROUND ME.

IT STARTED TO COME BACK TO ME.

>> YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO DECIDE

WHAT YOU WANT TO BE UNLIKE ME.

YOU CHOSE TO ASSUME -- TO ASSERT

YOUR BLACK IDENTITY.

WHY DID YOU MAKE THAT CHOICE?

>> I THINK THERE IS LESS CHOICE

INVOLVED IN IT THAN YOU ARE

CONSIDERING.

THERE IS THIS ADAGE I'VE HEARD

ABOUT IF YOU ARE A MIXED RACE --

MIXED RACE PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE

MORE WHITE OR SOME MIXED-RACE

PEOPLE CHOOSE TO BE MORE BLACK.

I THINK IS PRETTY REDUCTIVE.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE OR

BLACK IN OUR SOCIETY THAT IS

OBSESSED WITH RACIAL PURITY?

IT'S BEEN A PERSISTENT THEME.

HALF WHITE DOESN'T ACTUALLY

EXIST AS A CONCEPT.

IF YOU ARE HALF WHITE HALF

BLACK, YOU ARE BLACK.

SO ON AND SO FORTH, THERE IS NO

-- IF YOU ARE NOT WHITE, YOU ARE

NOT WHITE.

>> HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR

COUSINS FROM INDIANA, THE WHITE

SIDE OF YOUR FAMILY?

>> I NEVER REALLY SAW ANY

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US.

I NEVER LOOKED AT THEM LIKE THEY

ARE WHITE AND I'M BLACK.

THEY WERE ALWAYS JUST MY FAMILY.

>> WHEN YOU INTERACT WITH MY

FAMILY IN NEW YORK, HOW IS THAT?

>> GROWING UP, IT ALWAYS FELT

PRETTY NORMAL.

THEY WERE ALSO MY COUSINS.

THE ONLY WEIRD PART IS WHEN YOU

ARE IN A ROOM FULL OF MINORITIES

OR COLORED PEOPLE, IT'S LIKE THE

WAY A WHITE PERSON WOULD FEEL IN

A ROOM FULL OF ALL BLACK PEOPLE.

YOU FEEL LIKE PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU

A LITTLE MORE --

I HAVE HAD THAT FROM FAMILY WHEN

THEY SAY YOU HAVE A NICE COLOR.

>> YOU DO.

>> IT'S FUNNY HEARING THINGS

LIKE THAT FROM YOUR SIDE OF THE

FAMILY.

YOU HAVE SUCH A NICE COLOR.

I FEEL THE SAME ABOUT YOU, YOU

HAVE A NICE COLOR.

I HAVE PINK AND BLUE BUT YOU

HAVE A NICE SKIN TONE.

IT FELT A LITTLE COMPETITIVE.

IN ALL COUNTRIES, THE LIGHTER

YOU ARE, THE PRETTIER YOU ARE.

THAT'S ABSURD.

ESPECIALLY IN HAITI, I FEEL IT'S

TRUE THAT THE LIGHTER YOU ARE --

>> THE HIGHER YOUR SOCIAL

STATUS.

>> RIGHT, SO I ALWAYS FELT A

LITTLE RESENTMENT BECAUSE OF MY

COLOR.

I DO GET TREATED A LITTLE

DIFFERENTLY.

>> OUR HIGH SCHOOL WAS PROBABLY

ONE OF THE MORE DIVERSE HIGH

SCHOOLS.

THIS COMMUNITY IN GENERAL OF NEW

ROCHELLE IS PRETTY RACIALLY

DIVERSE.

>> IT'S REALLY EASY TO BE

MYSELF.

IN HIGH SCHOOL, NO ONE REALLY

CARED.

IT WAS MORE WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER

THAT PEOPLE WERE JUST -- OH MY

GOSH, YOUR DAD IS BLACK, YOUR

MOM'S WHITE, THAT'S ABSURD BUT

BY THE TIME IT GOT TO HIGH

SCHOOL, IT WAS SO COMMON.

MY BEST FRIEND IS BLACK.

ONE TIME MY DAD TOOK ME TO

GET MY EARS PIERCED.

THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE EVER GONE

TO THE MALL.

THE WOMAN WENT TO MY DAD AND SHE

SAID YOU CANNOT TAKE OTHER

PEOPLE'S CHILDREN TO GET THEIR

EARS PIERCED.

MY FRIEND SAID THAT'S HER DAD.

>> IT'S INTERESTING HOW POP

CULTURE, PARTICULARLY HOW

COMMERCIALS, -- EVERY OTHER

COMMERCIAL HAS MIXED-RACE --

THEY ARE INTERACTING WITH THE

WHITE GRANDDAD.

>> IT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE MORE

DIVERSITY IN VARIOUS ASPECTS OF

OUR LIFE.

IT WOULD BE NAIVE TO JUST JUMP

AT THAT AND SEE WE HAVE REACHED

THE ULTIMATE PROGRESS.

>> POST-RACIAL AMERICA.

>> I THINK A COUPLE OF CHEERIOS

COMMERCIALS WILL NOT CUT IT.

>> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE

STATE OF RACE RELATIONS IN THIS

COUNTRY TODAY?

>> IN THE UNITED STATES, WE HAVE

SEEN THAT PEOPLE CARE SO MUCH

ABOUT STAYING WITH WHO YOU ARE.

I THINK NOW THAT DONALD TRUMP

IS PRESIDENT, PEOPLE ARE

STARTING TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND

REALIZE THAT IT'S OK TO MAKE

MY FAMILY DIFFERENT AND IT'S OK

TO BE DIFFERENT.

>> I SAW SOME STATISTIC

WHERE MOST WHITE PEOPLE DON'T

KNOW ANY BLACK PEOPLE AND MOST

BLACK PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ANY

WHITE PEOPLE.

WE EXIST IN THIS COUNTRY

TOGETHER BUT THE BLACK AND WHITE

COMMUNITIES ARE STRANGERS

TO EACH OTHER.

I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN GET

THE DISTRUST FACTOR THAT

IS HISTORICALLY BUILT UP

BETWEEN THESE TWO COMMUNITIES.

>> ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS IS

POLISH.

SPEAKS POLISH AND THE

PARENTS DON'T REALLY SPEAK

ENGLISH.

ANOTHER ONE OF MY REALLY GOOD

FRIENDS IS JAMAICAN, BORN IN

JAMAICA, ALL THAT.

NOW THEY ARE GOOD FRIENDS.

TWO PEOPLE FROM COMPLETELY

DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE WORLD ARE

FRIENDS BECAUSE THEIR MIXED

FRIEND BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.

>> MIXED PEOPLE CAN ONLY DO SO

MUCH TO FIX RACISM.

THERE HAVE BEEN MIXED PEOPLE FOR

THE ENTIRE HISTORY.

WE CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH ON OUR

OWN.

>> THE ROLE THAT YOUR WHITE

GRANDPARENTS PLAYED IN MY LIFE

AND HOW WHEN I HAD MY

HESITATIONS ABOUT GETTING INTO A

BIRACIAL RELATIONSHIP,

ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOK FOR WAS

WHAT WOULD BE THEIR REACTION?

THEIR REACTION, AS FAR AS THEY

WERE CONCERNED, THEY WERE

LOOKING AT A PERSON, NOT AT A

BLACK OR WHITE PERSON.

THAT'S WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO

THEM.

THEY ARE IN THEIR 70s NOW BUT

THEY WERE REALLY PROGRESSIVE AND

THEY ARE SIMPLE PEOPLE FROM

THE MIDWEST BUT YET, THEY HAD

THESE VALUES THAT THEY WILL NOT

PREJUDGE PEOPLE BASED ON THE

COLOR OF THEIR SKIN.

I THINK THAT'S THE IMPORTANT

THING.

PARENTS HAVE TO PLAY A ROLE.

IF YOU SEE CHILDREN HAVING

RACIAL TENDENCIES, YOU HAVE TO

GET THEM STRAIGHT.

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