Good afternoon, were going to go to head get started we would like to welcome you to the skeleton in the closet decision im president Trinity University here in san antonio and this is my colleague lidia pine and we want to first of all, say thank you for coming to the session, and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library as well as Southwest School of arts and craft ares for opening up their facilities for this great event today, and we are also supposed to encourage everybody to please post any of your photos were your tweets and things please put them up on social media. And use the hashtag hrveg sa book fest civil for twitter so please put those out there out into the internet i should say. I would first of all like to ask everybody to please silence your cell phone if you havent done that please put those off and informed us that flash photography is not permit masters degree the room. The way that the seventh going to work today is is that im goinged to a brief introductio
Questions, and remind you the needed after this session you can go around the corner to the gallery where they will be selling books and marisa will be selling them. A portion of all the proceeds will go to the San Antonio Public Library foundation. Again good morning. This is one of the best days weve had with allies for the festival so far and i think its going to stay that way. Its my honor to be able to come ask understate moderate, to moderate this panel on the book white backlash immigration, race, and american politics. We are a nation of immigrants for whom immigration has always been a contentious issue. We are a multiracial republic of which diversity too often torn by race, slow and accepting the gifts of such diversity. Immigration and race are as woven into our history and politics as are the stars and stripes to our flag. Long before the leading republican candidate for president talked about building an imagined wall between the United States and mexico, the issue of imm
It is a selfinflicted wound. Malcolm x in particular and that is a misnomer you can call people. [applause] government abuse is onesided. I care about freespeech and the First Amendment i was so libertarian for this. And i had written from the left for my column on the wall street journal i assumed i would have staff on the right to. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Thankyou everyone for the book festival i cannot count on saree. I was asked but thanks for your coming down to to the san antonio book festival. I want to remind you that end at the end of morriss comments there will be a microphone that is passed around and it reminded us immediately after the session and the question of the proceeds so good morning this is one of the best days whether wyse and i think it will stay that way. It is my honor to moderate this panel on the book, white backlash immigration, race, and american politics we urination of immigrants said immigration has always been a tradition were a multira
Author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv, and im a cspan fan. And today we bring you coverage from the Fourth Annual san antonio book festival with panels on immigration, the politics of marriage, crime and more. Tomorrow were live with biographer will haygood for three hours on in depth. Hell take your questions and discuss all of his books including his most recent, showdown, on the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood marshall. And this week on after words, America Online cofounder steve case looks at the future of the internet. Plus, the life of suffragist and abolitionist julia ward howe, a report on the chinese ecommerce site alibaba, and the marines universitys how to defeat isis. For a complete schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Thank you, everyone, for coming out for the third annual san antonio book festival. Fourth, i am sorry. Have i don
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