Please be seated. Good afternoon and welcome to the 34th annual book fair. I am dean of the Honors College ere at Miamidade College. We are delighted to be able to host this for you this year. And before we get started, there are a couple of people and organizations to thank. As this fair would not be possible without our sponsors. Please, give them a round of applause. [applause] also, we are so fortunate to be a part of a community of people who care about book fairs, literacy, et cetera, we have so many friends of the fair in the audience today, so please give yourselves a round of applause. Cheers and applause] as customary, i ask that you please turn off your cell phone. Know that we will have a q a at the microphone. We ask when you present your questions, please be brief and concise and also i hear the chuckle. Also we will have a signing area to the right of the elevator. Without any further ado, this is a particularly special panel a because we have with us, one of the founder
Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. What just happened . What did we miss . The things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didnt. Host was there a seminal moment . Was it years in the making . With the 2016 . Guest i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. He came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over thi
Dr. , tatum, we are talking to you about a book that was written 20 years ago, why is that . We are talking about a book that i wrote first 20 years ago and i i have revised and updated which was releasedleased in sep. This book in some ways is a new book because theres a lots of clang in the last 20 years. Was it your idea to update it or the publishers, did they come to you . The publishers approached me about it but i was thinking about it because i wanted to write a book for young people of the 21st century. Why are all black kids sitting together in the cafeteria . That conversation is really a conversation about identity, Identity Development which unfolds in adolescent. One of the things we know is that racial Group Membership is an important part of identity particularly for young people who are targeted by racism in our society. Sitting together can be a source of support, it can be a way of finding affirmation of identity, a way of providing a buffer against the racism of the
Here in miami. Thanks for having me. [inaudible conversations] please be seated. Good afternoon welcome to the 3h annual book fair. Here at the Honors College we are absolutely delighted to host for you this year. Before we get started there are organizations to think. Please give our foundations around of applause. [applause] we are so fortunate those that care about book fairs and, literacy please give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] as is customary please turn off your cell phone we will have q a at the microphone. Please be brief and concise also assigning area is to the right. Ou this is a special panel because we have one of the founders of the book fair. [applause] that is very kind of you that is very kind of you i have been doing this 31 years i have been at mcmahon for about 5000 authors and never nervous but this is the first time. [laughter] as many of you know i have not kept it a secret im involved with the film called the man who invented christmas it will be
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