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Oh, I'm Shan the son and the sky. My mom, she's good to me. She's my mom because she likes me and I like my mom. My dad wants a job because he, my mom, and he always, always gets my mom because he doesn't like her. He always gives me a weapon and I don't do nothing to him. And I never do, I never make noise, it still works me a lot.

I'm kind of scared, like I don't know if I get to go up to heaven or not or anything. Just get real scared. I like brambles, I always see a rainbow up in the sky. Even though your life is full with anger and people like your, maybe your father beats you a lot. You still should have some hope inside, never put down your hope, never thing will be okay. I think I'll drink a little stuff, however I'm doing too hard, I'll prove that there's a high like a diamond in this gap. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Reflects perhaps some of the cultural backgrounds of the countries from where these students are coming. Of course, the role of women is even seen as less equally than here in the United States. And this is a problem, too, in terms of women coming into engineering. A lot of the graduate students now and some of the people teaching the classrooms, teaching assistants, might bring some of these cultural attitudes as well. And it would be, of course, a bad situation if the students from the U.S. felt that

they were not going to be the opportunities because of such attitudes. Well, your boys in this country would give them the chemistry sets, right? Girls didn't get those for the most part, but I want to take on another issue. I look at figures like, okay, in terms of the consumer electronics market, we were 100% 20 years ago, and now we're down to less than 5% in the automobile industry. Here we are. We're at 1.74% of the market now down to 26%. And I'm wondering, is that a problem of engineering and science, or is it a problem of marketing and bad products? Well, you can argue that marketing, you can argue that business judgments had an impact on that. And certainly there were some serious economic questions there. But also it reflects a failure to really pursue excellence in the product development, particularly in consumer electronic areas, and it reflects not really having the talent in this country to do that.

The last person that designed an audio receiver in the United States probably retired 20 years ago, at least 10 years ago. And the new skills people are interested in digital technology and it's not quite as applicable to some of the areas as some of the older products. But we have a real deficiency and we've done it to ourselves. And when we look at the college campus, again, two, the students returning out, assuming that we can get kids in there, well, our kids, American kids, we able to compete with students in other countries. Are they for advanced than we are? I believe that the students from the US are completely capable. They're perhaps not as well prepared and this is, I think, some of the lessons we're learning. But in terms of capability and particularly capability for innovation is still an area where the US students can make tremendous contributions and have the capability of doing that. So I don't see that as a part of the crisis. And you before the show mentioned motivation of these students, there was a like of it? Well, they're really is.

I let these grow, they're going to make seeds, you know, they'll see that I'm shelling out and then I'm planting them next year. The small garden in front of her South Dallas home is far from the farm fields where Oceola May's grew up in East Texas. But the plot helps her to remember, remember the days of her youth when she would work alongside her parents and grandmother in the fields.

To help them get through the long days, her elders would often sing the soulful spirituals born of slavery. Even though she was only a young girl then, May says she can still hear the music as if it were yesterday. May's memories have opened her world and introduced her to people in places she never thought she'd see. Last winter she performed with two folk artists in Europe, spending over three weeks in Paris, France and Florence, Italy. You see, the story, songs and poems of her youth have made Oceola May's a living legacy. It's always impressed me the most about Oceola is her ability to remember things. Over the last seven years with the help of folklorist Alan Governor, Oceola May's has turned her remembrances into performances. She is 80 years old now, but the words passed on to her from her mother and grandmother are still fresh in her mind. I'd rather be here in a little place I know. This day she interacts with a group of students at Spence Middle School in Dallas.

For an hour she conjures up a magical mix of rhyme and song. Don't let us be like the rich man, he made his bed in hell, while he had money, while he was doing well, he turned his back on guard, he should have used a rod. Please don't drive me away, or please don't drive me away. Just because I am poor, standing at your door, please, please don't drive me away. Help me statement, I am pleading to defend the black men's cause. Will you give me the protection to outline your laws? Will you lawyers plead my case in your coast? I'm not a lawyer, but I'm a citizen. Will you recognize my votes? Rule and power this nation.

Will you give me justice now? Swing low, sweet cherry art, coming far to carry me home, swing low, sweet chair. Cherry art, coming far to carry me home. And my mother was a very smart woman, and my mother, she made a poem about this stone, and my daddy put the music to it. Wasn't that a mighty time, or wasn't that a mighty time when that stone struck Gillam town. This is the same, my daddy put the music to it, wasn't that a mighty time, wasn't that a mighty time, that evening, wasn't that a mighty time when the stone struck Gillam

town. It is given to only a few of us own rural voices, not many of us drive catalogs, and only a small percentage of us guide the ship of state. But there are several thousand four manufactured daily, and there are several thousand babies born in American daily. What are we doing for them? But I was three years old, and I wanted to be named Oceola so bad, they all call me Nell and sister, and that sound pretty good, that his man came by, and really I was so much in love with him, he'll give me popcorn till I said I want to be named for you. And my mother said no, you cannot have his name, that's his name, and I start screaming my mother, where you can't have his name, this man said let her have my name, and I'm going away, but it's longer she lives, she can have my name, so my name is Oceola.

Everyone of you, just beautiful eyes, so clear and bright, and keep on living, you'll be 80 years old, just keep on living. Have you taught anybody in your family, like now in your family, how to sing her? My daughter, yeah, she sang, my daughter sang, and my granddaughter can't sing her to me. Everybody get to come back, see y'all again, y'all are very nice, y'all are very nice. I'm trying to fix the way you can call it, easy, Oceola, Oceola, mazo. Did you ever, ever imagine that you would be so important to other people? No, I didn't, I didn't ever imagine that, I just want to be doing something.

May says her trip to Europe was the most exciting experience of her lifetime. I understand you were quite a hit over there, they really enjoyed you. Yeah, well I, I didn't say no poems, and reason I didn't say no poems, because they couldn't understand, but I had to sing, and they couldn't make them understand the words or so, but they didn't judge, getting through it, because they patten the hands, your hand clapping, rocking and all, and I know by that they was enjoying it. My grandmother, good luck going on. May's keeps a scrapbook about her performances. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any photographs of her mother or grandmother. Her grandmother, Laura Walker, was 10 years old when the slaves were freed in Texas. Her mother, Asaline Douglas, died in childbirth when Oceola was 10. She says they were strong women who shaped her life. Well my mother always taught me to be smart. She taught me to be intelligent and independent, which I don't know about that, but she taught me that.

And always, if I can do anything for myself, she's always what you can for yourself. Don't just depend on some of my people doing everything for you. Bow in his kingdom, bow in his kingdom, in his kingdom, in my soul. I never would stop calling the church, because my mother told me to go to church and read my Bible. And I'd do that, and I think she'd be proud, very proud of me if she were here. She'd be proud of me. For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

Christians in North Dallas. Muslims in the southern part of the city. And whether that faith gets expressed in Christian terminology and forms or in Muslim forms and theology, it is faith today that we celebrate. The Lutherans and the Muslims say they have built a lasting relationship over the past year, sharing a meal after the Sunday service they made plans for the coming year. Later, they talked, and their words ventured beyond words from a year ago about... Our cells, in spite of ourselves as brothers and sisters, some of them we don't want to

claim, you know, we wish they weren't in the family, but they are. And as soon as we can begin to see one another, not just as white brothers and sisters, or African-American brothers and sisters, or those kinds of, as soon as you put an adjective on brothers and sisters, you miss the bigger picture. Participants feel this year's congregational exchange was a success, even though fewer people took part in the last year, of the 80 churches that pertinent. My dad went to jokers, he, my mom a lot, and he always, always hits my mom because...

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