Texas book festival. I have a couple announcements before i introduce our speakers and then we will have a brief conversation appear and then open it up or you and day for the last 10 minutes or so. There are microphones down the aisles and i will send volunteers to help if you need a microphone brought to you. First and foremost, please finance your cell phones. Dont be that person. They also want me to remind you to share your experience on social media. The festival uses the texas book fest as the twitter handle and the is tx book fest. Authors will find books. Because we are in the main tent, its just write down that way. A portion goes to the texas book festivals mission and helps fund. Programs that brings authors and students together and brings grants to libraries in texas. We are very grateful to have you here. All right, without further ado, let me introduce our wonderful speakers that really dont need introduction but, youve got to do your thing. First we have was a New York
And now were back live in allston with an auto discussion on racism in america. [inaudible conversations] how are you today . Great to see so many people here in the now hot texas. Welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival. I have a couple announcements before i introduce our speakers and then we will have a brief conversation appear and then open it up or you and day for the last 10 minutes or so. There are microphones down the aisles and i will send volunteers to help if you need a microphone brought to you. First and foremost, please finance your cell phones. Dont be that person. They also want me to remind you to share your experience on social media. The festival uses the texas book fest as the twitter handle and the is tx book fest. Authors will find books. Because we are in the main tent, its just write down that way. A portion goes to the texas book festivals mission and helps fund. Programs that brings authors and students together and brings grants to libraries in texas.
And so when i would speak about that book i would encourage people to be antiracist. I would encourage them to move away from the racist ideas that had been ingrained in them and so the more i spoke about being in antiracist the more people were like, tell me a little bit more. Okay. Antiracism stuff because as you know, people are taught in this country to be not racist. So this construct of being antiracist was new. The more people ask how to be antiracist, the more i realize that this was a book and i felt like i could potentially answer it. Thats really interesting because its almost as though you had it necessarily plan to write this book. I was thinking, its in a extraordinary book you are historian through and through and there is a kind of risk associated with writing a book that has like really immediate implications. But he felt called to do this and talk about the distinction though that you draw because you draw it in a very clear and cogent fashion. One of the things i not
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Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. For Many Americans, Donald Trumps incendiary tweets aimed at immigrants and citizens of colour show him to be a racist and White Nationalist. But maybe we exaggerate the importance of Donald Trumps contribution to americas problem with race. The roots of racism run deep, and an honest assessment of their strength has barely begun. So says my guest, ibram kendi, prize winning writer on race and founder of the Antiracist Research and policy center in washington, dc. Can the us ever fix a problem so intimately bound up with its past . Ibram kendi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me on the show. I think we have to start with donald trump, and the role hes playing today in the United States, seemingly inflaming race tensions across the country with his tweets aimed at immigrants, aimed at some of his political critics, women of colour. Should we see him as something very different, an outlier, an aberration . Or do