fiction have a crossover appearance from, you know, where i say captain kirk will appear. you know, i mean, it is in a way it is a a little bit like a kind of fan fiction in the sense that it is this vast collective storytelling and enterprise. i think it is a really good point because i think we all write our own barack obama fan fiction. in a certain level. we all are creating there is will is something about him as a figure that is both, you know, probably more words written about him than any political figure of probably since lincoln, i would guess. maybe pdr. particularly in terms of ratio of times spent on earth or in office to those words. and yet at the same time they are seeing something that always mysterious about him. even though we know so much about him. absolutely. he is if it is really this question of creating a narrative of yourself. it is. i think you are right. it is a combination of public
pariahs anymore. race is deeply cop plex and continues to be in this country. but certainly i think biracial people are much more separated out and they were much more stigmatized. we have gotten to this point where they are not but that they are still kind of one foot in one in the other world. one of the amazing things about barack obama is how well and how much he speaks to that and how much he sort of inhabits that role. a along with my writing students, they will try something like this. they will try people from forget race they are not from the south. they write a southerner, their idea of whatever that is. my writing advice to them all the time slyke this is a terrible southerner. you can get to know some southe southerners. get a different idea. is that the only solution? is that the only solution to channeling? is it is it possible to
that gets that i totally agree. it was like the things you might imagine him saying to a therapist. period. to his wife. and the to people whom he trust. right. right. i thought you were sharing a special thing. that gets that gets to this question. basked in construction. i want to explore this because dash i have watched this depressing thing happen with politicians who i really liked in the beginning because they were authentic and got less authentic. they also became more successful. and so i want to ask your thoughts about like when they can work. you are getting an elevated hopeful vision of this which is that trust and authenticity are a voice and register of that both work from the poetic stand point and also from political standpoint but seems like there is a real divergence of politics. day by day? don t compromise. new vidal sassoon pro series from the original salon genius. starts vibrant, stays vibrant.
journalistically, to press you on this point, does it not get a more accurate flavor of the speech if you do not have the video to transcribe it in the way they did? hide the coates. that s a genuine question. switches. i personally believe to do that undermines the power of the this man is probably one of the most intel gentleman presidents we had. ever. since jimmy carter. now i will get him in trouble. to do that, you know, it is something is very ignore an about putting like tom sawyer and huckleberry finn-ish. when we have a black president, which we never had before, we should be super sensitive to that. that there is a certain baggage that comes with that. we have month pride in our native dialect. i just realize native to our people. it is not your native dialect. i never heard you speak like