Talk Nation Spring 2017 Featuring Dr. Kamal Woods

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demonstrations a little earlier. Not to
get too political, but you and I just
attended the inauguration and it was
just an interesting study, I think, in
human interaction and group connections.
As we were walking out of
there, you didn’t see a lot of police
as we were leaving. Everybody just
kind of got their own selves out of
there. We walked in group of people
that you didn’t know and there was
this good feeling there. I was going
to say contrary to that, where the
protest march that happened the
next day, and I imagine they had that
same experience, that the people
they were marching with, they felt
good about what they were doing.
They felt strong about it. The same
there’s peaceful marches or peaceful
celebrations, it’s hard to point out
anything negative about that.
Dr. Ruona: Yes, that’s right.
There were so many people that
were hugging and caring and liking
things. Just because you disagree
with someone politically, you have
the right to do that but to throw
things and break things and fight
with people, that’s not love. That’s
not forgiveness, you see. It’s there,
that kind of love that we need, the
one that forgives, the one that cares,
the one that believes, that we learn
to love each other so we can work
together.
“When you point a finger out, you’ve
got three fingers pointing back at you.
You’re the one that ends up really suffering
because you’re carrying that around
in your mind, and your mind starts to get
sealed with that”.
way people felt like they were part
of history when they were watching
the inauguration. I imagine that
there were millions of people, hundreds
of thousands of people, that
felt they were part of history with the
group marching and the protesting.
Regardless of what side
you’re on, there’s a lot of togetherness
there, there’s a lot of love,
there’s a lot of companionship. I
guess it only is very, very negative
when you start breaking windows, or
you start hurting each other, or you
start cursing at each other, but when
Frank: We spoke the other day and
we’ve spoken on air about Ayn Rand
a little bit and she is just a very interesting
author. We spoke about, I
believe it was your sister. Your sister
gave you a book once and you kind
of got absorbed into it. Let’s touch on
that a little bit. What did you learn at
that point from Ayn Rand?
Dr. Ruona: Well, Ayn Rand was
Russian, was born in Russia. Of course,
she was subject to that time because
she’s dead now. She was subject to
the worse of the pain and the nonbelief
in freedom, that people were
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