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
Before. And people had been hurt before. But the country reached a peak there. The country had never seen anything like those National Guard troops opening fire with live ammunition into protests by american civilians. Kent State University in ohio has had campus violence for three nights causing the National Guard to be called in and today the guardsmen opened fire on the students killing four of them, two young men and two young women. Three for shot in the chest. And one in the head. A dozen or more others were wounded. Some by gunfire and some by bayonets. The National Guard was called in over the week by Ohio Governor james rhodes. Today when 1,500 students started an antiwar rally, the guardsmen surrounded them. When some started throwing rock, the guard moved in with tear gas. Students were forced up a hill by the tear gas. Some of them started throwing gas canisters back at the guardsmen. A formation of guardsmen marched up the hill and fired their rifles at the students. [ gun
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