Nights sleep and welcome back to day two of our National Conservative student conference. [ cheers and applause ] for those of you who dont know me, i am the cofounder and co chairman at the university of georgia and i am looking forward to a great weekend with all of you guys, but this morning i have the great honor and privilege to introduce den prager. I am a huge fan of mr. Pragers work for two reasons. Number one, without his show i would not have found this distinct organization, Young Americas Foundation which ive had the privilege to intern for this summer and number two, because i believe mr. Prager provides something very important, something very unique and something lacking for most of our policy discourse today, thats moral clarity. Dennis prager is the host of the widely popular andic finfluentil talk show the Dennis Prager show, he can also be seen regularly on cnn and fox news. In addition, his daily radio show, mr. Prager lktures frequently on various topics from relig
And i am looking forward to a great weekend with all of you guys, but this morning i have the great honor and privilege to introduce Dennis Prager. I am a huge fan of mr. Pragers work for two big reasons. Number one, without his show i would not have found this distinct organization, Young Americas Foundation, which ive had the privilege to intern for this summer. And number two, because i believe mr. Prager provides something very important, something very unique and something lacking for most of our policy discourse today, and thats moral clarity. Dennis prager is the host of the widely popular and influential talk show the Dennis Prager show, which can be heard 9 00 a. M. To 12 00 p. M. Pacific. He can also be seen regularly on cnn and fox news. In addition to his daily radio show, mr. Prager lectures frequently on various topics from religion to politics. He is also a prolific commentator, writing a weekly column that appears in townhall. Com, national review, among other places. H
About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an africanamerican woman who happened to go to the university of Georgia College a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and really turned to me and sai
Up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a little about the story. The book began with the conversation in a taxicab ten years ago when my friend who some people may know, poet laureate of the us but at the time she was not yet. Ten years ago we were at a professional conference and natosha and i were old friends but one night she decided
Then i will come back up here with david french and greg to have a conversation about this. Well bat around handful of ideas. You ly you probably know david who has lit gifted on these issues. He has been in the trenches. Hes. Fire which is probably the leading organization for working on campuses and freespeech issues and im a fan of his because he cowrote what i think was the best article of 2015 in the atlantic, the coddling of the American Mind. Its fascinating, one of the parts of johns book is that theres an increased emphasis among folks on campus thing the safe spaces, its good for Mental Health. There is this alternative we just have a couple rules. One, please make sure that you raise your hand and we get at microphone to you. We just want to make sure everyone can hear you are. Make sure to you introduce yourself. Wed like to know who the conversation is happening between, so name and organization. And then last but not least, please, please, please actually ask a question d