Breathe which is written as a letter to her sons. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you say i wonder if why they irredeemable and they hear all white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity that is clone two. So when i go to the second paragraph and unlike what if we took this identity apart, the people had a different history or body but it would be a different relationship to identity but i think what potentially we have as a consequence is a more humane relationship to each other, when i went later in the first paragraph when i say a person and the individual can be a heaven, certainly it is someone who is raised by a white man or as someone who thinks so many figures like take for example john brown or howard zinn or bob zellmer who i think are some of the most precious people in the world, it is important to not have a formulation that removes them from my sense of struggle that im engaged in, so thats what i was thinking. One more question abo
Relationship with china and how the United States could negotiate with the country that refuses to be transparent. Transparency would only undermine the chinese government, so how on earth do we deal with a country like that when we have so many issues we need to address. We will also talk about the role of the who during the pandemic, as well as the impact of covid19 on vulnerable populations, refugee camps, and developing countries. This all occurs as we continue to have crises in venezuela and syria. That makes thegs job even more difficult today if she cannot be facetoface like an ambassador is accustomed to doing. She has to do that virtually nowadays, which is how we join her today. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Pace frome change of being on the teleconferencing with the Security Council. It is nice to see some great friends and have this conversation to shine a light on what is happening in the Security Council amid this pandemic. Certainly. Lets talk about the who annual as
More testing and three to discuss the need for more assistance to the states. Murphy telling the president at one point in this, quote, we have been crushed as a state. So neil, i will send it back to you. Because well get the tape. One other thing i was told i want to get in real quickly, i was told the white house as it relates to more relief down the line potentially for states, the white house essentially is on hold, a pause, they are surveying the landscape what potentially could comb next. White house Officials Say a decision on next step measures not expected this week. They still say a lot of these programs still havent fleshed out all the funds. Murphy going to the white house to talk about the need for state funding. Nancy pelosi put the figure at 500 billion. Im told it will be several more days until the white house officially plots out its next step. Neil . Neil all right. Blake, thank you my friend. We do know governor murphy is already looking at reopening state parks th
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more