slate of nothingness? then you would be the hundreds of thousands of young men who perished in a war that created a path for you to experience all of this worry and discontents. and never got to experience the things that we find troubling and hard to endure. they never got to say life socks because they never got to experience life at all. so on this commemoration of d-day, do them this service. consider yourself lucky for your luck today was born from their misfortune 80 years ago. [ applause ] lee, you are still active in the military, any thoughts? we still live in the greatest country. we are looking at footage of teenagers, of the greatest generation who save the world. the ultimate battle of good versus evil. thank god they had this courage and patriotism and heroism,
wilkinson became the first back won towin the pulitzer prize on journalism on a ten year old the 1993 midwestern floods. nearly 20 years later in 2010, she wrote the warmth above her sons, and instant classic, won a whole bunch of awards. it s about the black migration north through much of the 20th century. an incredible book. can t recommend it highly enough. then in 2020, she followed that up with cast, the origins of our discontents, an epic explosion of not just american racial hierarchy, but hierarchy across the world i was lucky enough to talk to her about her hope for the book on my podcast, why is this happening? this actually is not an argument, thisis an invitation to look at ourselves differently. an invitation to understand what wemight have not known or
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the agenda from a specia meeting this week of the llano county texas commissioners a discussion about whether t continue or cease operations o the current physical llano county library system. officials in lanto county, texas, which is community abou 22,000 people and this is abou 80 miles outside of the stat capital, they have been ordere by a federal judge to return about a dozen items that wer removed from the countie library system after - some citizens complained among them, books that cover race lgbtq matters and puberty including cast, the origins of our discontents wilkerson s examination of racism in america, being jazz, my life is a trench gender tee by jazz jennings a birth, a book about the birt of the ku klux klan, along wit a handful of kids books abou
the agenda from a specia meeting this week of the llano county texas commissioners. discussion about whether t continue or cease operations o the current physical llano county library system. officials in lanto county, texas, which is community abou 22,000 people and this is abou 80 miles outside of the stat capital, they have been ordere by a federal judge to return about a dozen items that wer removed from the countie library system after some citizens complained. among them, books that cover race lgbt matters and puberty, including cast, the origins of our discontents wilkerson s examination of racism in america, being jazz, my life i a trench gender teen by jazz jennings. a birth, a book abou the birth of the ku klux klan, along with a handful of kids books about farting, because that is all kids, or at leas my kids, are interesting in. seven residents of leno county sued county pistols to get those books back on the shelves,