Fabulous show! Wonderful speech by Fredrick Douglas...appropriately angry, outraged and passionate. Mark was wonderful! It is easier to take back your land, your culture and your life when there is more support and back-up. It is amazing how many people, even young people, in Iowa know little about how the name of their State emerged. Many Johns, Bobs and Jacks think they popped out of a rock and suddenly were made God. Maybe if they did have real Godliness or goodness some would not be so evil - where they want to drag everybody down to their level and to pin their evil on them. We need to call this what it is: evil and dysfunctional minds!

Thanks to you Dorabji and your wonderful Native Indian speaker! And for the wonderful speech by Fredrick Douglas! He is passionately outraged, appropriately angry and futuristically demanding! I live in the Midwest where July 4th is about barbecue, holdiay, fun and fireworks. It is hard to bring these issues up...or even to ask questions about their Natives. There are people in Iowa who do not even know where their State name comes from. They killed the natives, displaced them and then gave the State their name...as if murder and later memorable apology and naming is all morally equivalent. One deals with these places with politeness, detachment and carefulness - because one wrong word, one wrong statement or one wrong move and your future could be ruined, affected or dramatically attacked. Is there a formal mourning day for Natives and Blacks to treat this day as one of "loss and later renewed vigor to take back their land and culture"? Thanks for bringing the perspective and POV that gets lost outside California...forty other States where Bob, John, Jack, Melinda, Melissa and Mary, who claim to have popped out of a rock with entitlement to the world, are the mainstream. Thanks for keeping my sanity. Any possibility of a rotating talk show around the Midwest?