Please, do not approach the panelists while in the building. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is ivan bates, and i will serve as the moderator for todays panel, black in america. One of the things thats very interesting here at the key school, we have the opportunity to look and listen to the schools leader. Once we sit down we understand his book, basically, is a definition of the racist ideas in america, and this book was ai book that he spent a great deal of time researching. Its a book that chronicles the entire story of the antiblack racist ideas and their power over the course of American History. Dr. Kendi has done this through a number of ways throughout his book in which he uses the life of five major americans. These were intellectuals throughout the time period of history. The first one is a puritan minister. He sits down and talks about that and how he looked at some of his ideas. The next individual in the book is an individual, thomas jefferson, talks about him as well
Our two authors will be out front. [applause] so their books will be on sale itch can say personally theyre both engaging reads and have been getting great reviews. So come out, ask some more questions, and buy some books. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] we want to hear from you. Post your feedback to our facebook wall. Facebook. Com booktv. What do you do at simon and schuster. The vp executive director of publicity and senior editor. Host what does that mean. Guest i run out Publicity Group and i try to acquire books. Host well, we wanted to talk to you on booktv about some of the books coming out this season, but tell us one book you have been working on as an editor. Guest well, ive just turned in a final edit on jerries next book, woman looking at men looking at women, and she is very interesting. Most people know her as a novelist. The last prize, but the she leads a double life and happens to be one over the most presuspected thinkers and writers in neuroethics and neural row
Volunteers for working so hard, especially hard this year given weather to make today possible. And thank you all, really, for coming out. Youre all a very hearty, hearty bunch. A few quick administrative notes. Now would be a good time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might go beep. Second, if youre tweeting today, please use hashtag gbf. And, third, we really want your feedback. So, please, at the end fill out a survey. Theyre available at the back of the tent or on the gbf web site. And if you complete a survey, you have a chance a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Finally, Juan Williams will be signing books after this presentation. Hell be, theres a signing line on the other end here of the festival grounds. And copies of his book, we the people, are on sale in the politics prose tent which is just out here, over there. Now, a quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, theres no charge for the festival, it does help the book festival if yo
Retired cspan journalist and board member of the society. If you will join me in silencing all of your electronic devices, lets welcome bill and connie. [applause]. Hello everybody. Thank you you so much for coming this evening. While i was preparing a little bit for tonight to introduce bill walker, i googled a little so so the veracity of any of this is in question. The first thing i googled was the average number of people who come to a book signing event. I will tell you, it is in single digits, so please give yourself an applause for being here this evening instead of being home watching meg and kelly, and and donald trump on television. [applause]. The second thing i googled is the average age of a firsttime author who gets published by a traditional publisher. That average average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. , bill walker grew up in knoxville tennessee, he went to the university of virginia for both his undergraduate and
Some regions of this country. But unfortunately, were right across a city that where journalists still openly selfcensor themselves. They say theres no guarantee from the government, there is no protection from the government against these drug cartels. There is no real freedom to move. Offer times you have convoys leaving from often times you have convoys leaving, people who need military escorts or just themselves to try to travel to the border. So all the issues we talked about, unfortunately, have not been resolved. What mexico is doing in the future. Midnight. Now if it is maybe it is 12 30. Clearly not done yet. Host what led to the darkness . Guest many factors led to darkness. One was inrs when mexico experienced that led to a vacuum, power vacuum, where basically states took over and drug cartels, who not often but they really operated many times oneonone with the corruption with federal authorities. Many of these cartels became basically the not just ofplah the everything tha