By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tonight a conversation about white rage, white anxiety in the era of trump. I am pleased to be joined by tim wise, activist and author of white like me reflections on race from a privileged son. Has latest text is titled under the affluence shaming the poor, praising the rich, and sacrificing the future of america. Also, honored to be joined by carol anderson, professor at Emory University and author of the National Book Critics Award winner white rage the unspoken truth of our racial divide. Im delighted to have you both on this program. Thank you. Thank you very much for having us. Carol, let me start with you. What is the unspoken truth of our racial divide . The unspoken truth is that we right now in america, we live in a space that has a narrative of black pathology. If only black folks would value school, if only black folks would vote. If only black folks wouldnt do drugs. What i found in doing this research
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So please welcome him back to the program. The as i claimed author of looks like midnight children and out with his latest, its called the golden house. Sal mo solomon, glad youre back. Good to be here. You can correct me if im wrong, im hearing that youre starting to get alittle bit annoyed by the comparisons that people are making to a particular character who has green hair in your book yeah. To another guy whos sort of orange. You wrote the book, why are you getting annoyed by the comparisons . Thats on purpose. Thats the deliberate satirical idea, one of the characters says whats happening in america is the d. C. , like comics, its taking over d. C. Yeah. Spot character of the joker who has very, very white skin and green hair, and hes running for president. That stuff im not what im saying is its a minor character. Its in the background of the story. The story is about somebody else. And thats just part he
By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tonight a conversation about white rage, white anxiety in the era of trump. I am pleased to be joined by tim wise, activist and author of white like me reflections on race from a privileged son. Has latest text is titled under the affluence shaming the poor, praising the rich, and sacrificing the future of america. Also, honored to be joined by carol anderson, professor at Emory University and author of the National Book Critics Award winner white rage the unspoken truth of our racial divide. Im delighted to have you both on this program. Thank you. Thank you very much for having us. Carol, let me start with you. What is the unspoken truth of our racial divide . The unspoken truth is that we right now in america, we live in a space that has a narrative of black pathology. If only black folks would value school, if only black folks would vote. If only black folks wouldnt do drugs. What i found in doing this research
Radio, tv, not much of the man left here. [laughter] rick i wanted to set it up. And i think a little bit of my thunder was stolen already. Marks latest gem, it is called the food of a younger land. A younger land, what does younger land mean . It depends on how far you want o go back. If you are anthropologists, they think the diet went to hell about 7000 years ago when humans stopped foraging, stopped hunting and gathering, and had a iet of minerals and vitamins and amino acids perfectly in tune with the seasons and went to a lower grade of eating called agriculture, with its deficient grains and so forth. Or you could go to a younger land, back to the late 19th century in philadelphia where they were already fishing out the oysters and the shad and the catfish. They were used to the catfish dinners here, catfish dinners all over town. And even the sturgeon fisheries on upper delaware bay, which in the 1880s, actually produced the worlds mightiest share of caviar, which i dont think
You can also post your thoughts on facebook and twitter. We are cspanwj. We look forward to your postings and tweets. You are not, if registered as a democrat but vote regularly as a democrat, that is the line to use or you. Same for republicans. We will get to your comments in a moment. Part of our conversation reflected in a poll in sundays Washington Post. Just messed up. We told you about the lead on that. Conductedthis poll, nine months into trumps tumultuous presidency reveals a starkly pessimistic view of u. S. Politics, widespread distrust of political leaders, and their ability to compromise and an erosion of pride in the way democracy works. We will focus on your thoughts on your Political Party and whether that represents your views. Wall street journal had an article about the democratic side of things to their headline democrats struggle with their own tea party moment. Janet hope writing that six democrats are challenging an incumbent publican in next years midterm electi