Jeff Schechtman's "Talk Cocktail"

"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Are We About To Fight a Third American Revolution?

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Some of you may be watching the Henry Lewis Gates' PBS series on Africa. It’s a story that is in many ways the start of the civil right...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Congress then and now....Lyndon Johnson and the Battle for the Great Socieity

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American political history is a complex and dynamic process. In that process, there have been periods of entropy and period of great progre...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Looking at Feguson through the eyes of the South in 1964

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Fifty years ago this summer, Americans, both black and white, gave their last full measure of devotion in an effort to register African Amer...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Black Power

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Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy notwithstanding, the past year has seen us engaged in a celebration of the passage of the Civil Rights Act...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

James Meredith, Civil Rights and the rise of Black Power

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The recent debate and court challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 reminds us of what was the once and future fragility of registering b...
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Jeff Schechtman
Napa, California, United States
I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.
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