Lesson 20: the Failure of Compromise

T R A N S F O R M I N G A M E R I C A F I N A L S C R I P TTITLE: Lesson 23 – “Life in the Fast Lane” WRITER: Gretchen DyerPRODUCER: Julia DyerDRAFT: FINALDATE: December 15, 2004 Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  1V I S U A L A U D I OFADE IN: Introduction (1:33) Music up 1. stock footage of 80s, including NARRATOR: In the final decades of the 20th computers, pagers, stock market, rush hour at commuter station, etc. century, Americans experienced rapidly accelerating social change. 2. archival footage of Americans at ‘80s POP SONG (The Eagles): Life in the fast work and at play, e.g., working in office, working out at gym, playing lane…. sports, bungee jumping, etc.Surely make you lose your mind…..Life in the fast lane…… 3. archival footage of Americans at NARRATOR: Living life in the fast lane had its work, driving in heavy traffic, charging purchases with credit rewards. But it also took a toll on a population cards, eating drive-thru fast food, etc. that grew increasingly stressed out, over- extended, and exhausted by its own success. ‘80s SONG (cont.): Life in the fast lane….Surely make you lose your mind….NARRATOR: For many, the promised “good life” remained out of reach. While some Americans did prosper in the eighties, most were far from rich. SONG (cont.): Life in the fast lane….. Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  2V I S U A L A U D I ONARRATOR: Meanwhile, growing numbers of poor and homeless struggled to survive, barely registering in the national consciousness. 4. footage of gay rights parades, pro- Americans living in the 1980s and 1990s choice marches, anti-abortion rallies, anti-gay rights rallies, etc. experienced greater personal freedom than any demonstrating backlash generation before them. 5. footage of immigrants, punk New faces challenged traditional notions of what rockers, gay Americans, members of right-wing militias, etc. it meant to be an American. 6. relevant footage As Americans enjoyed new freedoms and explored new identities, they encountered the challenge that has confronted every generation of Americans – how to advance equality without infringing on liberty.Segment One: Living in America (8:32)Learning objective: 2. Examine the major social issues of the era, including family lifestyles, welfare reform, health care and personal security.7. Montage: clips from Lifestyles of TV HOST ROBIN LEACH: Settle easy, open the Rich and Famous up that bottle of champagne because here comes “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”.Music up 8. clips of tv commercials advertising NARRATOR: A hundred years after the Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  3V I S U A L A U D I O luxury cars, designer clothes, excesses of the Gilded Age, popular culture once jewelry, etc. again promoted the privileges and luxuries of being rich. 9. clips from popular TV show And the American public was eager to partake. “Dynasty”, Donald Trump, etc.‘80s POP SONG (The O’Jays): Money….money….money….money….Mo-o-o-ney! 10.footage of Ronald Reagan talking PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: We’re the about America as “a place where a person can still get rich” party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.SONG (cont.): Money….money….money….money….. 11.Intercut TV commercials, footage of NARRATOR: The culture of wealth celebrated Americans shopping in malls, charging items on credit cards. materialism and consumption, promoting a vision of the good life that only money could buy. 12.Susan Strasser on camera SUSAN STRASSER (06:14): The aspirations Super: Susan Strasser, University that people have to stuff…to things…to of Delaware expensive items are encouraged by the culture 13.footage of shopping malls, people and encouraged among masses of people in purchasing items with credit cards ways that they haven’t been before. What we see in the 1980s and 1990s is the extension of credit to many, many people and really puts Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  4V I S U A L A U D I O people in the position of believing that they can have anything they want. 14.people purchasing items with credit TV COMMERCIAL: ....so bring your Visa card. cards SUSAN STRASSER (06:14): Anybody with a Visa card can go into Neiman Marcus and buy something. 15.Clip from Wall Street: “Greed is ACTOR (in Wall Street): Greed, for lack of a good.” better word, is good. Clip from Wall Street: “Greed is NICK GILLESPIE (04:10): One good thing that good.” we can say about a culture of greed, or a culture of wealth, is that it motivated people. 16.Nick Gillespie on camera (04:11) The idea of wanting and of going and Super: Nick Gillespie, Reason getting something is actually a great engine of Magazine activity, of dynamism, of change, and of growth in an economy and among individuals. When you see something that you desire, you figure out ways to get it. And on the whole, what people were going for in the ‘80s were things like bigger houses or better education for their children, more things that would make their lives interesting, fun, enjoyable.17.Music video ‘80s POP SONG (Madonna): You’ve got to make him….express yourself… Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  5V I S U A L A U D I O18.Archival footage illustrating cultural NARRATOR: The ‘80s were also a period of diversity, including MTV, TV shows with black or Hispanic stars, ethnic increasing personal freedom in American life. An festivals, etc. Also 24 hours news (CNN) increasing emphasis on diversity and a thriving pop culture all combined to give Americans greater opportunities for individual self- expression. 19.b-roll: Ellen Wright SONG (cont.): …..express yourself! 20.Wright family pics ELLEN WRIGHT (9366, 16:03:57): I was a child21.Ellen Wright on camera of the ‘80s. And I certainly loved growing up in Super: Ellen Wright the ‘80s. 22.stock/archival footage of 80s pop ELLEN WRIGHT (9365, 15:08:04): I love culture: e.g., Rubik’s Cube, Prince, Tiffany, mall culture, Michael anything that came from the ‘80s. I love the Jackson music videos, Flashdance (find this on the “Decade: the 80s” Rubik’s cube, I love Prince, even though he’s still tape in the stock library) out now. I love all the music, everything. I’m a big ‘80s fan. 23.Diane Swann-Wright on camera DIANNE SWANN-WRIGHT (12:06) What I’ve Super: Dianne Swann-Wright noticed about Ellen is that the media has really broadened her world. It isn’t just the presence of African-Americans in the media, but she identifies with a lot of other people across the world and a lot of other philosophies that I Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  6V I S U A L A U D I O wouldn’t even touch. 24.Ellen Wright on camera ELLEN WRIGHT (16:05:31:00): I felt like I was free to be whoever I wanted to be within limits. I think that there were certain things that I would not have done. Like, I don’t think I would ever have been able to, like shave my head or color my hair.25.Madonna music video ‘80s POP SONG (Madonna): We are living in a material world…And I am a material girl….. 26.archival footage from TV news NARRATOR: In the early 1980’s a new shows on “yuppies”, designer drugs, gourmet food, designer generation of college educated Americans clothes, BMWs, luxury apartments, etc. entered professional life. Rising incomes and falling birth rates contributed to the development of a new social class. “Yuppies” were young, urban professionals – hip, successful, people who consumed avidly. Clip from “Three’s Company” TV Three’s Company theme song: Come and show knock on our door… 27.Archival footage of women in the NARRATOR: Young people who postponed workplace, young urban singles in the city, clips from “Three’s marriage and childbearing explored a variety of Company” lifestyles for singles, while a new generation of educated, financially independent women Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  7V I S U A L A U D I O experienced a freedom few women of earlier generations had known. ‘80s POP SONG (Dolly Parton): Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living…. 28.Peg Burns on camera PEG BURNS (18:13): I think it was an Super: Peggy Burns-Deloria interesting moment for women. I think it was a moment where women had seen their mothers not pursue, necessarily, careers and not have those options. And it was the starting point of where you could pursue that possibility. PHILIP DELORIA (16:16): My wife started, as I 29.Philip Deloria on camera did, as a public school teacher, as an elementary school teacher, and then went to work for the Super: Philip Deloria Xerox Corporation and became a really star salesperson. 30.Peg Burns on camera PEG BURNs (18:18): I was in the middle of a cultural change and at that point, I wasn’t so 31.pics of Peg at Xerox in 1980s aware of it. I mean, I’m not that well-versed on feminist theory and, you know, feminist rhetoric, but I was living it. PHILIP DELORIA (16:12): The year that Peg Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  8V I S U A L A U D I O and I got married I actually quit teaching and started playing music and coaching basketball and stringing some other stuff together. And she actually allowed me, in a lot of ways, the freedom to do these kinds of things.32.Clip from Leave It to Beaver TV ANNOUNCER: Leave it to Beaver….NARRATOR: While Americans were still 33.Archival footage of same sex families, interracial families, single watching reruns of Leave It to Beaver on parents with children, etc television, many were living in families that didn’t reflect the traditional ideal. 34.Peg Burns on camera PEG BURNS (19:08): I kind of grew up with the Ward and June Cleaver household. My kids won’t say that. They’ll reflect back and it’ll be kind of different. 35.Deloria family b-roll PHILIP DELORIA (17:01): The way that our family functions now, I think, is we try to do a pretty equitable kind of split. Certainly I’ve tried to do a lot of the daycare and the shuttling and those kinds of things. For me, it’s really important for our kids to see - hey, you know what, women can do everything, you know, that Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  9V I S U A L A U D I O men can do and a lot of times they can do it better. And there’s no reason to think that my daughter shouldn’t have the same kind of career.So when my daughter says I want to be a geo- archaeologist, I want my daughter to always say something like that. 36.footage of gay rally and protesters PROTESTER (nats): We’re trying to tell the wicked to repent of their wicked ways.RALLY CROWD: Shame….shame….shame. 37.archival footage of openly gay NARRATOR: Americans had more choices than couples, drug users, etc. ever, but greater freedom sometimes led to greater conflict. 38.Archival footage of “Just Say No” Drug use climbed in every social class during the campaign, American planes spraying drug crops; crack addicts 1980’s, as many Americans took a more casual in urban ghettoes and police arresting suspected users/dealers attitude toward recreational drugs. But for others, illegal drugs represented a menace that required resolute action, and the U.S. government declared a ‘War on Drugs’. NANCY REAGAN: ….and if you’re ever offered drugs, just say no! 39.archival footage of police arrests, NARRATOR: Drugs were, in part, responsible overcrowded prisons, clips from violent movies such as Rambo, Die for an increase in violence in American cities. Hard, etc. Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  10V I S U A L A U D I OThe government cracked down on violent and non-violent offenders, increasing arrests and introducing stiffer sentencing laws. The nation built more prisons to house its criminals and hired more prison guards to watch over them. 40.Archival footage of political NARRATOR: The rapid social change of the protesters on both sides of contentious issues ‘80s and ‘90s expanded the horizons of many 41.film clips of movies about violence Americans, but it also produced resistance and and drugs from 80’s – e.g., Falling Down, Boys ‘n the Hood, etc. backlash. The confusion and conflict fostered a 42.clips from major violent events of climate of uncertainty and fear from which some 80s and 90s, e.g., Oklahoma city bombing, Branch Davidian standoff wished only to retreat. 43.Charlene McAden on camera CHARLENE McADEN: I looked at the things in Super: Charlene McAden the world that I saw happening and I told the kids, “It’s okay if you don’t have children. I don’t think this world is a good place to raise children”, because of the drugs and, it seemed, the violence and every place you looked, it was…it seemed to me to be unhealthy for babies. And Sherry told me that, “Mother, if every generation felt like that, we wouldn’t have a world.” And she said, “Don’t you think that in the past they felt the same way? What about when the atom bomb went off? Don’t you think that people thought Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  11V I S U A L A U D I O that this world wasn’t a good one to bring people in?” And I thought, “Well, I guess you’re right.” She said it’s to each generation to deal with what is happening then. Segment Two: Immigration: The Next Generation (6:36)Learning objectives: 3. Analyze the causes and consequences of recent immigration to America.44.drawings of pilgrims, Mayflower, Music up pictures/photos of 19th century immigrants, archival footage of 20th century immigrants NARRATOR: America has always been a land of immigrants. A century ago, most came from 45.footage of traffic at U.S./Mexican borders; immigrants arriving at U.S. Europe. But in recent decades, changes in international customs immigration law have opened the nation’s doors to a new wave of immigrants, who once again changed the face of America. 46.Judy Wu on camera JUDY WU (13:06:50): The 1965 Immigration Super: Judy Wu, Ohio State Act completely transformed the Asian-American University community and I would argue, completely 47.stock footage of Asian transforms America. It really changes the last neighborhoods, e.g., NY or SF Chinatown, Vietnamese important immigration act which is the 1924 neighborhoods in Houston, etc. Immigration Act. The 1965 Immigration Act Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  12V I S U A L A U D I O allocates an equal number for every country in the world – 20,000. It allows Asian-Americans to come in on the same basis as any other country in the world. So now they constitute about 4% of the American population - 10 to 12 million. 48.Yung family b-roll Judy Yung (05:10): The 1965 Act said that family reunification was one of the top 49.pics of Judy Yung’s mother, preferences. So if you had relatives in China, brothers in China you could sponsor them under the 1965 Act. 50.Judy Yung on camera (05:09) Now my mother immigrated in ’41, 1941, Super: Judy Yung before this happened, but one of the promises that she made when she left China to come to this country was that she would find a way to bring her two brothers from China to the United States when she got here. 51.footage, photos of China in 70’s, (05:10:29) So after the 1965 Act passed, my Nixon in China, etc. mother immediately began going to classes and 52.pics of Judy Yung’s brothers in America trying to learn English and get ready for passing the citizenship test so that she can become a U.S. citizen. So in 1972 she was able to send her brother from Hong Kong, sponsor him to come to the United States. And he brought his Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  13V I S U A L A U D I O wife and his wife had children here. And then later when he became a citizen, he was able to send for the other brother from China, after 1979 when that became possible. 53.footage of Hispanic neighborhoods NARRATOR: The Immigration Act of 1965 also in Texas, California propelled a dramatic rise in Latino immigration, increasing ethnic diversity in the society as a whole and within the immigrant communities themselves. 54.Guadalupe San Miguel on camera GUADALUPE SAN MIGUEL (2:04:51): You Super: Guadalupe San Miguel, cannot assume now that if you see an individual Jr., University of Houston that is of Latin American background that that individual is Mexican, or you cannot assume that that individual is Puerto Rican. So we need a new term…and many people are turning to the term Latino. When you have people, for example, from Guatemala and El Salvador settling down in communities that are predominantly Mexican, you start talking about a blending of cultures and a differentiation of Latino culture. 55.archival footage of Chinatown, East NARRATOR: Traditionally, immigrants have L.A., etc – cut to shots of Indian immigrants in southeastern U.S., migrated to the major population centers where Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  14V I S U A L A U D I OMiddle Eastern immigrant they joined large, established immigrant communities in Midwest communities. But in recent years, many smaller towns and less populous states have also been transformed by immigration. 56.Mayor John Fagut on camera on JOHN FAGOT (15:01): In the early ‘90s, IBP camera Meat Packing came to the community and with Super: John Fagot, Mayor Lexington, Nebraska that our community grew from 5,000 people to 57.b-roll Lexington, NE including 10,000 people in just a few short months. And schools, meat packing plant with that came a lot of diversity. 58.cont’d above (15:02:39) We’re in the heart of Nebraska. We 59.Lexington, NE b-roll aren’t in a big city, so very rarely did you see different cultures or different ethnic groups. And with the influx, we’ve had the opportunity to realize a lot of the different cultures from all over the world and, for me, I think it’s a very, very positive step. 60.Eli Vasquez on camera ELI VASQUEZ (14:01): We were the first ones Super: Eli Vasquez to move in, maybe a month after it opened, we moved to Lexington here and that was in 1991. It’s changed a whole lot because when we first got here there weren’t many Hispanic people. 61.Eli Vasquez on camera ELI VASQUEZ (14:02): You kind of stood out from everybody else, out of the crowd. As more Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  15V I S U A L A U D I O and more, it just started growing and we’ve seen more type of our people come here. We relaxed and we liked the town afterwards because it was really quiet, a nice place to grow. 62.b-roll of elementary school class in nats Lexington, NE 63.Mayor Fagot on camera JOHN FAGOT (15:02): There were some language barriers and it made it a little more difficult to realize what each other expected in the community. And so that was probably the biggest hurdle that we had to face. 64.Mayor Fagut on camera (15:09) We have a lot of ESL classes teaching 65.Lexington, NE b-roll them English, but it’s also given our children the opportunity to learn Spanish. And I think the way the world is changing, North American continent is changing, people that are bilingual are going to be the ones that are going to be at the head of the line. 66.Judy Yung and nephews/nieces in JUDY YUNG (nats): When Grandma and Chinatown Grandpa first moved back to San Francisco from Menlo Park, they lived in Chinatown. And that building over there is where your grandma and all the rest of the family lived in 1946 until 1952 – Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  16V I S U A L A U D I O on the second floor of that building. 67.footage of 2nd generation Asian NARRATOR: First generation immigrants may Americans, Hispanic Americans, etc. in high schools, colleges, public find it difficult to make the transition to living in spaces the United States, torn between their ethnic origins and their new identity as Americans. For their children and grandchildren who are born in the United States, ethnic identity may be less fixed.JUDY YUNG (nats): So this is the spot that…. 68.Judy Wu on camera JUDY WU (13:13:45): Throughout the history ofAsian-Americans there has been this struggle of how to identify oneself, how to culturally situate oneself. Are they Americans? Are they Asians? I think from the dominant society, regardless of self-constructions of identity, they’re often viewed as foreign. 69.Judy Yung on camera JUDY YUNG (05:23:59): I was living in 70.Yung family b-roll, e.g., footage of Chinatown and going to Chinese school and Judy Yung showing nieces and nephews around Chinatown living in a home that was very ‘chinafied’. And then yet in American school, I was being taught what’s expected of me as an American. I was always torn between my identities - am I an Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  17V I S U A L A U D I OAmerican or am I Chinese? And I figured, okay, I’m both. But with my nieces and nephews, the third generation of Chinese-Americans in my family, they have no question that they are Americans first. They are Americans of Chinese descent. Segment Three: Race Matters (7:48)Learning objective: 4. Examine the state of race relations and the ongoing debates about affirmative action in America.71.archival pics & footage Music representing Jim Crow segregation in late 19th/early 20th century NARRATOR: The long and painful history of 72.footage of Martin Luther King and Civil Rights movement race relations in America did not end with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. 73.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY: The first part of the Super: Christopher Edley, School new civil rights agenda, frankly, is to continue the of Law, UC Berkeley work on the old agenda – the traditional anti- discrimination agenda, because discrimination 74.–footage of blacks on college campuses, in white collar jobs still exists in many forms in many places. But the 75.intercut with footage of second part is to think about the strategies that impoverished black neighborhoods, inner city schools can create economic opportunities for upward Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  18V I S U A L A U D I O mobility in education, for example, in employment, that create the possibility over time of narrowing many of these gaps. 76.archival footage of students NARRATOR: Few issues have been more protesting against and in favor of affirmative action divisive than the one surrounding affirmative action, a program first introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 77.archival clip of LBJ PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON: You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “You are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. 78.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (20:18): I think the simplest way to think about affirmative action is that it refers to a policy that involves paying attention to race or gender or any other immutable characteristic and using that characteristic as a factor in decision making, decision making about distributing burdens and benefits, distributing resources, etc. 79.cont’d above (20:23) Colleges and universities have generally80.footage of college campus strongly supported affirmative action because including students of various races Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  19V I S U A L A U D I O they see that kind of inclusivity as an ingredient of academic excellence in their institution. Students learn from each other, not just from the professor, and students have to be prepared to go out and be leaders in communities that are increasingly diverse. 81.affirmative actions protests NARRATOR: From the beginning, affirmative action was challenged by those who felt that it constituted preferential treatment for minorities, and violated constitutional principles of equality. 82.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (20:22): It’s not costless to make decisions using race or gender as a criteria, as a factor in decision making. The question is are there circumstances in which that cost is worth paying and that’s really the question that the law frames. In cases like the affirmative action decision involving the University of Michigan, we’re faced with this question of when this seems to be necessary in order to achieve some deeply important social objective. 83.Christopher Edley, Jr. on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (21:06): At issue in Michigan was whether diversity could provide the compelling interest the Constitution requires in Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  20V I S U A L A U D I O order to do race sensitive affirmative action. And the court ruled, yes it can, at least in higher education. 84.Ted Spencer on camera TED SPENCER (21:07): We had to prove that Super: Ted Spencer, University of the value of diversity was strong enough that Michigan people…that the entire population of this country benefited from it. And so in order for us to do that, we had to gather the support of businesses, the academic community, the military. And what that meant was that when we presented our case to the court, we had perhaps the largest number of amicus briefs, briefs in favor of our particular point of view, of any case of this type in the country. 85.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (21:10): What the friend of the court briefs demonstrated to the justices is that the practice of affirmative action, and in particular the need for racial and ethnic inclusion in these key gateway institutions, has become so clear to so many leaders of society that to strike down affirmative action nationwide would have been truly radical. So in an interesting sense, it’s not just the liberal impulses Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  21V I S U A L A U D I O of a couple of the justices, but also the conservative impulses, the desire not to be too radical that worked together to preserve affirmative action. 86.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY: The second question was whether or not, given the compelling interest, was the specific policy adopted by Michigan narrowly tailored – that’s the phrase, narrowly tailored – to pursue that interest. And there the court divided, saying that the undergraduate plan in Michigan which used a points system to admit students and awarded a fixed number of points based on racial diversity, they viewed that as being too mechanical, too rigid. While not a quota, it smells a little bit like a quota and that they declared was unconstitutional. 87.Ted Spencer TED SPENCER (21:10): They suggested to us that the law school was a great roadmap, because in their opinion the law school did not use points, but they had a very holistic, individualistic review process, which included race but also it gave students an opportunity to Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  22V I S U A L A U D I O talk about themselves, to talk about reasons why diversity was important to them. 88.Tania Brown on camera TANIA BROWN (21:26:11): I think the Super: Tania Brown university’s use of race as a factor has had an amazingly positive experience on the academic and social lives of the students in this educational community. 89.cont’d above TANIA BROWN (21:25): When you have students from a plethora of backgrounds interacting and then you kind of leave, you know, with something different than you walked in with. 90.Claire Morrissey on camera CLAIR MORRISSEY (02:16): I graduated with aSuper: Clair Morrissey great deal of friends from a lot of different backgrounds and now that I’m going to graduate school, I’m actually kind of scared that I’m not going to be able to recreate that. I think Michigan’s pretty unique that way. CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (20:21): Affirmative action is, in some sense, controversial because many people who are not directly benefited, say for example, white men, have the sense, often incorrectly, that they’re being denied some set of opportunities or at least the chances of their Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  23V I S U A L A U D I O winning those opportunities are somehow diminished because of the affirmative action policy.Ellen Wright on camera ELLEN WRIGHT (15:12:09): At the Baltimore Super: Ellen Wright Zoo, I began working there right after I graduated from college, about a year after I graduated there. But there was one gentleman at the zoo, he was a docent. We were driving back from a program one day and one of the things he said to me was, “The only reason why you have this job is because of the color of your skin, because you’re a black girl.” And it stunned me. And I remember that being the first incident where I felt as if the color of my skin really does maybe, you know, it stays with me and it’s there and it’s something that is…that people see and assume things about me. And I think that the gentleman who initially said that comment probably must have felt frustrated and must have felt like, “Why is she here, who is she?” , you know….you know, he was pretty angry on some levels.CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (20:14): The fights that Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  24V I S U A L A U D I O we see today in affirmative action all reflect a basic tension between those who want the future to come quickly and those who want to cling to the status quo. That’s a continuing theme in the civil rights struggle. It’s not going to go away because race is very hard….very difficult business.Summary Analysis: Harder Than Rocket Science (2:36)Learning objective: 5. Assess the meaning of the major social developments of this era. 91.Reprise images from program MusicNARRATOR: As the 20th century drew to a close, notions of freedom, identity, and equality continued to evolve, provoking conflict and crisis as Americans struggled to define what it meant to be free, equal and American. 92.Christopher Edley on camera CHRISTOPHER EDLEY (21:20): I’d like to say that dealing with race is not rocket science….it’s Super: Christopher Edley, School harder than rocket science. Rocket science is – of Law, UC Berkeley put a man on the moon….ten years, it’s done. Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  25V I S U A L A U D I ORace is – generations since Brown v. Board and we’re still trying to get it right. 93.cont’d above (21:19) The color lines of which W.E.B. Dubois spoke at the beginning of the 20th century, the color lines are very deep and, in many respects, more complicated with the growth of the Latino population, with the exploding growth of the Asian population in this country. It’s no longer a black/white issue. It’s much more complicated than that. 94.Judy Wu on camera JUDY WU (13:17:19): Oftentimes we think Super: Judy Wu, Ohio State about race in black and white terms. University(13:16) The fact that there have been such large numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America since 1965, that this really can change the composition of people in the United States. At the same time there is a resistance to broadening the category of America and American to include some of those individuals. 95.Guadalupe San Miguel on camera GUADALUPE SAN MIGUEL (02:19): You have exciting things going on in the society but those Super: Guadalupe San Miguel, exciting things are creating anxieties among Jr., University of Houston Transforming America • TA123 – FINAL • Life in the Fast Lane  12/15//04  26V I S U A L A U D I O people, because some people don’t know how to react to it. Some people say, “This is not the America I grew up in”, and want to revert back to the way it was in the ‘50s and ‘60s. But I think others are saying, “We need to accept this diversity.” 96.Nick Gillespie on camera NICK GILLESPIE (05:10:18): Americans at the Super: Nick Gillespie, Reason beginning of the 21st century not only realize that Magazine there are more ways of being in the world as an individual, but they’re much more comfortable with that idea, whether we’re talking about women’s roles in the workplace and the home, men’s roles in the workplace and the home, alternative sexuality, ethnic identity, mixing. 97.Nick Gillespie on camera NICK GILLESPIE (5:10:52): I think one of the great developments in the ‘80s and ‘90s was the globalization, not simply of culture and commerce, but also of identity. We’re all mongrels now and we all kind of like being mongrels. It gives us a lot of options. It gives us a lot of choices and it allows us to kind of reconfigure and revise ourselves over time.

Lesson 20: the Failure of Compromise

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