Do we really want to go back to this?

“he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States, period.”

- Newt Gingrich

Let’s be clear whether you’re part of the group of people who feel Obama has met nothing but opposition since he became president or you’re not, he hasn’t gotten much done pass the health care bill and the bailouts. One thing he has done that is underplayed is restore good faith in us to those smaller and poorer countries. It’s easy to buddy it up with the Brits and have meeting with China and France. Hillary Clinton was in Burma, Obama showed love to those who were protesting in the Middle East and Egypt. Most of those dictators in power for decades were there because of us and the European nations putting them there.

I don’t get how we are cool with having this American arrogance play out all the time. Our soldiers burned Qurans with the trash, that’s just wrong, no if ands or buts about it. Now to be fair our news media which in any other time seems so ignorant as to how to practice Islam were quick to point out such a thing as burning the holy book happens. Yes it does, just the books, it’s not burned with old wood or what was in a trash can. The people of Afghanistan have a right to be upset. Somehow our last president made wars with two countries one being Afghanistan instead of the terrorist group responsible for 9/11. From that point on it has been some sideways war against Islam. This burning Qurans is just more signs of disrespect for a region and the religion that’s practiced there. If these were Christians would such a mistake had happened, if the same scenario played out from the uproar to Obama apologizing would Newt had even said anything?  Matter of fact he would, he’d be apologizing on the behalf of America and doing so because he felt our commander and chief hadn’t acted fast enough. Being unapologetic and somewhat hateful to Islam is what got us here in the first place. Bush wasn’t going to say sorry to the people of Iraq because he threw them in the mix because he had a personal score to settle, Mitt Romney has a book out because he too like Newt feels Obama is apologizing too much and then there is the stupid comment by Newt and the faithful followers of close-mindedness that applauded the coment.

So by Newts law Jewish people should apologize for lives lost in World War Two. I mean Hitler was no where near America, we went overseas and many lives were lost, should Jewish people being apologizing? Hell how about Germans too because we were actual fighting them?  Should the Japanese apologize? I can go on with those countries we fought and have had lost of life because of it, but is that really the point of the comment? It was more  “we’re the United States of America” bullshit. We had people go crazy over burning flags, hell we had it become a “hot button issue” in an election year. People still have strong feelings about that now, but for people to have those same feeling for the holy book is overdoing it? I burn the U.S. flag in Germany I’m sure Germans aren’t going to cry foul. I go outside of any Masque in the WORLD and burn a Quran there will be problems. The irony of this whole story is as Newt is tripping out about people rioting and killing Americans because we burned Qurans here in America people were doing harm to one another over fucking sneakers…. Sneakers. Not sure what religion worships Nike but if it’s Islam I’m sure some GOP candidate will say something negative about it. I don’t think we need to go back to the “we’re the most powerful nation” bully tactics of the Bush Administration and it seems all the Republicans candidates are willing to do just that. Is that really what we want?

Embarrassing Americans: The power of a Nike shoe

First off it costs $220 for these? They look like some generic spaceship on some B movie knock off of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. They look like that Superman suit Tim Burton had made for his version of Superman movie that never was. I guess throw a swoosh on it and it automatically becomes a must have.

I really tried not to let this story get to me but when I hear people complain about the price of gas and few other things I can’t help but think about these ugly shoes, saved or came up with the money for them you lose the right to complain about the price of anything. Those who were caught up in such a dumb situation of rioting over sneakers, it gets labeled as some black people thing. This isn’t new for Americans because Playstation, Xbox, Ianything by Apple and the newest toys and games find themselves reason why people go crazy on Black Friday. Does that lessen the ignorance of what happened over some sneakers? No it doesn’t. It just means it’s not new news. Of course the people getting interviewed were black people who had nothing that note worthy to say, but what can you say? You can’t defend the rioting and you can’t speak negative about the rioting because that person was looking to get the shoes too so they’re a small part of the problem. It would be nice if young African Americans were this passionate about books or education. A slight uproar at a City Hall meeting about tearing down homes, apartments, schools and shopping centers in urban areas with such passion would be cool. It might not become news because that uproar is for a good reason and one thing that seems to be harder to find than good black films is news of black people doing productive stuff for their inner city community. The way the news media broke the story you’d think something like has never happened at all. Not true at all.

I want to take various pieces of my trash and mold that into a design for a shoe. Give it to Nike and let them find somewhere to throw the swoosh on it and sell for just have the price of these fugly shoes. I will happily take $50 for every pair sold. I’m sure I will come out ahead because Nike has been coming out with a gang of ugly shoes for years.  The only people who came out looking good in the story are those of Nike. They have shown why there is no other shoe company that has America on lock like Nike. Adidas, Reebok, K-Swiss and even those actual expensive shoe brands have nothing on Nike. I was told that if I was going to buy stock in anything get something that will not go anywhere, it will always be here… I’m looking up Nike when I move.

I’m scared of republicans

Rick Santorum called himself calling Obama out because he like many people feel college should be affordable for all Americans. Now hearing the comment, when Rick Santorum first states his bold comment, you can hear a laughter as if something was funny about making college affordable. What kills me Rick Santorum went to Penn State, our last president went to college, hell you can’t find one politicians that hasn‘t had a  college education I don’t think. If I’m wrong and someone reading this knows of a politician right now serving that has no college education please give me the name. I mean even the “snob” idea of want every American have a chance at a better life doesn’t sound snobbish to me. I know snobs and most of them are selfish and if they do give a damn about anyone it’s not about a lot of humans. Dogs, cats, plants, sea creatures, buildings and art will get a snobs attention before poorly educated people.

For some reason it seems Republicans are fueled with hate and fear. So no mandatory health care, no bailing out anything of any kind, find a way to be racist to Hispanics via the law, don’t raise wages, do not allow gays to get married, don’t give a helping hand to those in need, don’t let expecting mothers get early care because somehow that leads to a higher abortion rate, don’t apologize for burning another religions holy book and now add no affordable higher education for all Americans. There is such a need to by republicans to keep America divided. Even as people state our country is becoming more diverse the GOP still makes it a must to focus on older white people hoping that the views have been soaked up by their children to keep the same close minded views alive. The Tea Party proves that there are many modern day cavemen who have no idea of the real world. People have went out of their way to ensure the world they live in fits their ideology. It’s the saddest thing about watching these primaries play out because these candidates are so focused on the Tea Party is that you’d think those ideas are how all Americans see things. Which leads to the bigger question how will these extremes work in a general election? Can Rick Santorum really say how dare Obama want college education to be affordable in a general election? Can he continue to go all pro Christian anti every other belief in a general election? The world is so much bigger now and to have such a closed minded view on the country and the world isn’t a good thing at all.

10 things I like about Kansas City

Yeah, I hate this city but there are some things I do like, no love about the city. Not many, I thought and I wondered if I could even come up with ten. The first thing I did was just look around and gave a halfhearted thought of the first things that I do brag about in KC. Not much came up but here we go.

1.  The city looks beautiful

If you go downtown if looks great and when you’re on any of the D link skywalks at Crown Center and look towards downtown it truly is nice sight. It’s one of the perks of working downtown for me. The ride going to and from work is the only time I feel like I’m in a city. When you get to where I live it looks like the hood but seeing the people and corner stores makes it feel normal .At night when the bars, because there really aren’t many clubs out here at all, are lit up and the streets are flooded with people going back and forth you really feel like it’s not the same lame boring place that KC really is at all.

2.   Jazz

At one point I stayed going to The Blue Room. As a Hip Hop producer hearing live music by musicians is always inspiring. The perk of First Friday in the Crossroads district that gets overlooked by the wine and stuck up people is seeing people outside playing Jazz. Westport had a few guys on certain corners playing the sax or a guitar. I don’t frequent Westport or those First Fridays because the vibe is just not “real” to me. A place on The Plaza that was a Jazz hotspot has closed down. As much as the city wants to become a city known for the arts and classical music the Jazz still holds strong.

3.   The murals

There aren’t as many now but when I first got here man you couldn’t go through the inner city without seeing them. There were no rapper stuff just inspiring stuff. On Troost there are two that include Martin Luther King Jr., one of Walt Disney, a mural of a Native Americans face.  There is this building by my job that has many paintings of various people that represent the many cultures that is nice to speak about the diversity this city really doesn’t embrace.

Downtown the African American history that this city is known for is showcased and is the only place you’ll see any acceptance of that history. The Michael Jackson mural is gone as well as the one mural that just spoke volumes which was of a brother breaking a chain wrapped around his head.

4.   The graffiti

Now I could say that since the graffiti doesn’t say anything about trying to get people to rise up they haven’t been taken down. Still those pieces of graffiti are beautiful. I tried to get a lot of footage for two of my videos and still when I would travel around I’d see stuff and could kick myself for not seeing them on my three day weekend last spring when I was shooting footage. I would assume most of it is old because I personally haven’t seen any new stuff since the Jackson mural.

5.   The metro

Now things will really change in April for the worst but for now it’s cool. I mean it’s great. Troost and Main have a Max bus route which runs every ten to fifteen minutes as well as the regular buses on that route, so a bus is coming sometimes every five minutes. In the morning you can’t really miss a bus to get you work where I live. Same can be said for getting home. One day I saw a bus I needed leaving and watched a guy run that bus down just to have the next bus come in five minutes. We even ended up right behind that bus going down the same route by time we hit Linwood. A bus goes to KCI and there are buses that take you to the stadiums on game day. My girlfriend is like you will be pissed when I get to where she is because the bus system is so not the same there. I think she even got spoiled by how things work here. I figure I will be driving in a year. Again things will really switch up in a few months and I’ve heard for the worst.

6.   Libraries

The libraries are a nice get away recreation center for the homeless. As long as they don’t go to sleep or cause a ruckus they can be seen in the library from the time it opens to the time it closes. I go to the one downtown the most and love to see them just hanging out and I do find it strange when I notice them on Twitter, Facebook, and even Tagged… Yeah not really getting two out the three sites homeless people are on. Throughout the week movies play at all the city libraries and there you will have to deal with the smell and snoring. I’ve been to a few movies and I like how the host of whatever the theme is for that month is keeps it professional. It would be easy for the host to just play the movie but they tell the reason they’re playing the movie an do Q&A’s short Q&A’s .

7.   The diversity

There are various African countries represented here as well as a healthy Haiti migration. There are also Russians, many Hispanic cultures, Malaysians, Chinese, those from Vietnam and the Middle East. The thing is it’s not embraced at all. That’s another subject for another post. Still can’t deny how multi-cultured KC is and that’s feels good to see it.

8.   The way the city areas intertwine with one another

Now this is like the diversity thing, for an example it’s a tricky but distinct thing that I’m talking about. Where I live in on Armour Blvd. a block or two from Gilliam which has a park and across the street from there heading to Wickham you have condos. The other side before you get to the park is this small ghetto ass building. Hell, on the corner of Gilliam and Armour you have a section 8 apartment building and across the street is some upscale building, beside the section 8 spot is another somewhat upscale place. The city is like that all over. You go down Troost and there is Rockhurst University and UMKC housing the next block it’s back to a urban setting. I always loved how you can walk into a good area from the hood. Where it goes bad is the fact many Africana Americans don’t walk through certain areas as if they’re not allowed to and people from both worlds will not, do not and feel no need to even begin to acknowledge each other. But the way the city is set up is a good thing even if the people refuse to interact with one another.

9.   local public broadcasting networks

At one point I wouldn’t miss This Week In Review on KCPT. I remember I didn’t even know it was local because the host of the show is English. I for the most part stopped watching the show because at some point it seem like they kept two guests who truly were closed minded racist and they spoke on behalf of a section of the city which seem to be the main focus of KC. As KKFI there was a show that came on in the middle of the night where two guys would talk about politics and I don’t know their names but I know they loved Real Time with Bill Maher because they would quote him a lot. There was also a nice African American show on the weekend then there was The Show Me Mixshow that I listened to from the first episode and stopped about five months and would stop listening to for a about a month every so often with hopes that new artists or at the least new music would be played. That didn’t happen. KCUR has Up To Date , Central Standard, KC Currents and the Fish Fry show really are my favorites. There also is the classical music movement that pops from nine pm to midnight and on Sundays a New Age thing that can be really good. I don’t know if the Celtic music thing on Saturdays is a local show, but it’s crazy how I love that music.

19.   The history of this city

This city has a deep and rich history and this too is a love and hate thing because for some reason all the history isn’t really embraced. Like I said you can see a mural of the KC Monarchs and that’s about it pass the Negro League Museum which on the famous 18^th and Vine that the city seems reluctant to invest in at all. Westport was a military spot long ago. The guy behind The Plaza from what I heard was mob connected. I also heard that Troost was a place of middle class well educated African Americans that fell victim to redistricting and has never recovered. What is now Crossroads used to be a industrial area and you can still see that. This city you can tell was so much more than what is wants to be today.

This city should be so much more than what it is but to do that all parties need to be allowed to shine not just the white people and the fine arts movement the city so desperately wants to be. The city is willing to sacrifice the Jazz, African American history, Latino history and other races contribution, Blues, Country, underground Rock and Hip Hop that really is all over the city. The bus routes will be switched to accommodate those who don’t ride the metro and do not want buses in some areas after a certain time. I’ve seen bus stops vanish because people don’t want a stop by them, it’s not anything new but it’s sad the people who rely on the bus aren’t involved in those choices. If you visit KC and don’t go pass the attractions you will never know of it’s flaws and true beauty of multi culture diversity and I think that’s the point nowadays for the city. It’s about the tourists experience and not the residents who live in the city.

Rick Santorum comment issues should be bigger than Santorum

Obama’s agenda is based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”

- Rick Santorum

The News media seems to still be hounding Rick Santorum for his comments against Obama for some reason. The comments should be broken down completely. Those who clapped must not care or are totally ignorant to the hypocrisy what they were clapping in agreement to. It seems it’s cool to call someone out for their ideology and trying to tell people how to live while trying to dictate who can and can’t married because of sexual preference. We as a country make it no secret we really have little knowledge of Islam and those who practice it have to find themselves being put through so much hassle just to practice their religious. How is it no one seems to want to bring that up to anyone? Are we as a country so scared to be considered anti Christian that to make it noted that those in a party are questioning our President for the whole contraception issue because of religion but seem cool telling people their religion is anti American and another group of people love is a sin and shouldn’t be recognized in marriage? People should in the news media should be real and speak on how messed up these comments are hypocritical. It won’t happen and that’s a shame.

Yes this can be used as a hate crime

Dharun Ravi trail is still in limbo on whether or not what he did, secretly video taping his gay roommate having sex, will become a hate crime. It should be a hate crime. Yes, now everyone knows that Tyler Clementi was already out to his family and to those he wanted to know. Somehow that has people feeling well the “hate” aspect of this should be dropped. Why is that, because we know now that Clementi wasn’t outted by this “prank”? At the time the news first broke no one knew that which means maybe Ravi didn’t know either. He secretly got a sexual encounter on video to show it to his friends, why? Just an honest question here, when is the last time a secret video recording was done for a positive reason that you know of? I mean it’s either to catch someone doing something wrong, used in blackmail or used to show what people do when no one is around and that’s supposed to be viewed all in the name of fun.

Listening to NPR last week and it seems the prosecution is coming off like he was “fascinated” by Clementi being gay. That alone is hateful. That’s what slave owners felt about their slaves having sex, “fascinated”. It’s what I’ve heard African Americans come off about Africans having sex, “fascinated”. It comes like they’re not talking about humans at all. I don’t know of one person I know that if I was to tell them I was going to or have already video recorded my gay roommate with his boyfriend having sex that wouldn’t question my actions. I’d be viewed and judged unkindly. So for Ravi to do what he did and have people to that he knew of that wanted to see this means again there was a need to do some kind of harm. Maybe just tease Clementi about what happen but that tease can be verbal and emotional abuse. So verbal and emotional abuse doesn’t count as hate crimes? Why not? Again people are just finding out Clementi was openly gay to his family and that’s somewhat new news. Ravi has not once apologized about what happened. It comes off like Ravi doesn’t care and didn’t care then. Maybe he will get by if this comes away looking like some immature prank… An odd hateful prank

Embarrassing Americans: The color of love

Here is a nice little study, 8.4% of all marriages in America are interracial. Yes, somehow this has a group of people following just how this breaks down. What marriages are interracial? What’s crazier is how this boils down economically too. Of course no married couple in America is going to make more than a white couple at $60, 000 but Asians do with $62,000. That same common sense of how America tends to work out means that yes the bottom of this economic latter has Hispanics at close to $36,000 with blacks, not African Americans by the way all blacks, at $ 47,000. Above blacks and Hispanics are the interracial combinations where a white person is involved.

The break down of who seems to marry outside of their race reads like one of those bitter African American female books where all the main character wants is a responsible, respectful, intellectual brother… but all the good brothers are with white women. Yes, it seems “blacks who married outside their race increased in share from 15.5 percent to 17.1 percent, due in part to a rising black middle class that has more interaction with other races.” For an African American woman that’s the last thing they want to hear or see. What’s odd it that this is being monitored, the AP story seem to trying to sell someone that this is a good thing. There lies an issue because most studies, I mean any study is debatable. You name a study you can turn to a news network and see two faces on a split screen with one being the pro and one being the con.

Yes most of these interracial marriages take place on the East and West coast. It’s where diversity is really seen at. The article and study also wants to give the impression that this will be America’s future. The problem is our present is still looking like our past. Television and movies rarely show interracial relationships, and those who are mixed usually get cast by skin tone. I know many people that have no idea Freddie Prince Jr. is half Puerto Rican. Should he play a Hispanic in films because he is part Puerto Rican?  No not all. Should we even care? No at all, but it is a fact. This study in itself is old school. You can tell how it only focused on who is marrying whites. The Hispanics, Asians and blacks. It really doesn’t focus on Asians with blacks, Hispanics with blacks, Middle Eastern with blacks or Jews and any those races race unless Jews were lumped in with whites. It almost reads like some odd way to say being with someone white makes things better. Black females rarely marry outside their race while black men do… to White women, from what the study shows as well as the story of many angry black chicks. That’s where it kinda stops with white women. The other two main focused on ethnic groups are the females with white men.  It’s 2012, we have a black man as our President whose mother was white and farther black. This shouldn’t be a study at all, its life.  I figure the cavemen with the flatscreen 50 inch TVs and Ipads are still clinging on the no race mixing because your children will be retards stuff. I know more than my share of interracial couples and people from those couples. Never thought there needed to be study on it.

We all know the stories of the prince or princess falling in love with the poor person in the village. It’s all good to love someone for who they are inside now we’re seeing that if you throw a race in the mix it becomes a different vibe. Love has no color. People with small minds still think in that “race” aspect. The same “race” plays a part in beauty in not just our country but the world. I personally never gave a race a second thought when I was with females. Now to be fair I didn’t get with white chicks on their “black dude” kick it remeinded me of  a few white guys I know that like women of color because they’re “exotic” or when they caught “yellow fever”. I remember I thought that was really a sickness and didn’t want to get it when I was in the 7^th grade. That kind of attraction is out there everywhere, people seem to get off on being with another race, some still say shit like taboo… Taboo, it’s another human, not your dog or some blow up doll.. This study gives me that kind of funny vibe when I read stuff like “About 83 percent of Americans say it is “all right for blacks and whites to date each other,” up from 48 percent in 1987. As a whole, about 63 percent of those surveyed say it “would be fine” if a family member were to marry outside their race.”  It comes off less like someone loves someone who is of a different race because that is a great person and more like some odd thing that’s cool to like having those tiny toy dogs a few years back. Love is color blind, can’t say the same for people.

Sunday Soul Session: Jazz Covers 1

This Sunday I’m doin it a bit different. I’m hittin you with Jazz covers of some R&B songs from back in the day. As you know how it goes, click here and get to the mix.

1. Living Jazz – Get Ready
2. Julius Brockington – If You Really Love Me
3. Monk Montgomery – Me And Mrs. Jones
4. Steve Khan – Darlin Darlin Baby
5. Young – Holt Unlimited – Could It Be I’m Falling In Love
6. Living Jazz – ABC
7. Hank Crawford – Wildflower
8. Les McCann –What’s Going On
9. Young – Holt Unlimited – People Make The World Go Round
10. Willie Mitchell – Groovin
11. Bob James – Feeling Like Making Love

Embarrassing Americans: Where are those who will be the face of the 17%?

I remember a conversation I had with someone when I first got here in KC and it was about the minimum wage debate the state of Missouri was going through that the state didn’t increase by the way. It seemed I came off to passionate about the working poor and no one in the room could understand why. Its crazy the one politician that wasn’t afraid to tackle the issue of the lower class ended up being a fucked up person. Romney has classified the poor as a statistic, which always devalues the problem and the people in that percentage.  There are real people who are poor and they’re not all lazy, poorly educated and truly it’s not exclusively a people of color issue.

While watching CNN over the weekend I saw GPS and the What In The World piece focused on the poor in our country. The piece was spot on, the images however seemed to feed America’s view of who the poor is.  The stills were mostly people of color. I’m not going to get into a race issue here but I will say it’s a proven fact that in America you put a white face on it change will happen. Now that many white people have been interviewed and are making minimum wage, news stories have popped up breaking that issue down.

With that said to bring that same logic to those poor in our country will not be cool at all. If Americans looked at how we judge the poor thing would be different. We judge class by household earnings. So if either people or parents working earn a combined 60 thousand, yes they’re middle class but as individuals that middle class status falls for at least one no matter how you do the math. We see it in the commercials where most of the time the man of the house died and the wife will lose her home. Of course the number of her earnings never comes up but as I see it that’s what it boils down to, alone she can’t stay afloat. Truth is many Americans fall into that boat but we as a country will not break it down like that for some reason. So instead we fall back on the people color and poor education which of course equals lower class poor Americans.

Our country will not increase the minimum wage to a living wage EVER and investing in training poor Americans isn’t on the agenda either. So it seems there isn’t a plan to help the poor get by. The days of low income housing has vanished in many cities and that makes it hard for poor people to even begin to save. Wealth starts there, you have to have money saved. A person making 70 thousand a year can easily become poor if they’re not saving and living beyond their means. The first thing that person will be blame for is being foolish with their money. To be working a low paying job and make less 30 thousand in a house of four, requirements of poor by the Obama Care guidelines, where can that family begin to save at? Banks don’t want to deal with those people, banks have figured out ways to weed lower class Americans out with all the fees they have started bringing back. So If I can’t save my money in a bank where what little interest is still something on my money saved, where do I go? I’ve said it before it seems the only place not looking to help the working poor with their taxes and tax money are banks. Most poor Americans don’t have bank accounts and if they’re smart have a prepaid debit card, if not you go to the bank you see on the check or even worst a check cashing place. Those who do go to banks that I know never come away feeling the bank wanted to deal with them. Even if a person is asked to open accounts for the children of the person cashing their tax check at least something will be done for that persons children.

We know its many factors that keep the poor in that situation. The news networks love talking about how to rebuild the middle class. One answer, the answer one would think it is obvious, bring the poor up to the middle class never comes up.  I’ve watched and heard many shows focus on that topic and the people interviewed and doing the interview as well as those with call in comments on the talk radio shows never bring that point up. We are a social status country and for some reason that as well as again the stereotype of poor people play a part in not even thinking of having some kind of structure that brings more money and opportunity to poor people to have them become part of the middle class.  Obama thinks he has that figured out with blue collar labor manufacturing jobs. That idea is being chopped at from every angle because for one most news shows only focus on college educated people and blue collar work isn’t on their mind. Again somebody has to flip those burgers, stock those shelves at the hundreds of thousand stores, make beds at hospitals and hotels, load and unloads trucks with packages, clean building with vacuums and some kind of cleaning solution and do many of the other lower paying jobs. Yeah the suits love to go to their favorite eatery during their hunch break and to never wonder who would do this job during the school year if it wasn’t for those who are there now is just arrogant.

Everyone working many lowing paying jobs aren’t under educated, many just haven’t caught that break, the ball didn’t bounce their way. I worked at a job with a lady who had a degree in psychology. Why, well because her mother got sick and to wait around for someone to hire her or investing money into her own practice and hoping it catches on wasn’t an option, she needed to generate income fast. Many people fall in that boat, we used to hear about those people, those were kinda the human interest stories on how they refuse to just give up even though they are fulfilling their personal dreams. Hell our movies and television shows had that as a topic and people used to be able to relate to that. Not anymore. Now we are telling the president those manufacturing jobs will not make people middle class yet there are no suggestions on what can do that. I would love it if one of these news networks, network television or even dare I say it BET have a show dedicated on focusing on the working poor or poor people in general and show what the poor can do to try and save what money they can afford to. Of course that will never happen because you’d have to show the earned income that makes you poor and as much as people like to believe they’re not poor they may be surprised they’re closer to that 17% than they ever thought they were, and that’s what the media and politicians don’t want you to know.

Another reason why I ride with Fareed Zakaria

Sunday I saw this episode and I really make it a must to try to watch this show. To me it’s a real highlight of what CNN offers.  I couldn’t figure out how to get it to show up on here but click here and watch and read this.