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
I can. Thank you very much. [applause]. Thank you. Thats with a great, thank you so much. And back tv on cspan 2 is live at the Los Angeles Times festival of books, its held on campus of university of southern california. Its been here for the last several years. Prior to that held at ucla. Its currently in its 22nd year. Now, weve got a full day of coverage coming up in about a half hour is a panel on the Republican Party, hugh hewitt, the radio talk show host, cory fields who writes about black republicans and peggy grande who served as Ronald Reagans executive assistant after he left the white house will be on the panel. Thats in a half hour. Here on the set on the campus were joined by authority and professor Michael Eric Dyson, the latest book tears we cannot stop. Doctor, why did you make this a sermon to White America. For america, you dont know i left crazy messages for peter flynn and loves me and hes a great man. I wanted to say that. I wanted to write this book because i thi
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Helicopter that got shot down who says he does not feel williams went far enough in his friday apology, if you will. Saying in part Brian Williams clearly apologized for getting himself in this situation, but he never looked at the camera and said he was sorry for the disrespect hes shown to the soldiers of the armed forces. Howard kurtz is with us on what brian did say on the interview which well play for you in part and what it says that nbc news decided to send him to work for msnbc. And on the soldiers that came forward and what hes hearing from the military on this. Fist first Trace Gallagher catches us up. Trace. Nbc news megyn, wont publicly reveal its investigation into Brian Williams but the network made it Crystal Clear there were a pattern of lies saying Brian Williams made a number of inaccurate statements about his experiences in the field. Among them, it is believed williams lied about seeing floating bodies in the French Quarter during hurricane katrina, and about being