[applause] her book me and White Supremacy combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor grew out of an online effort to get people to confront and disassemble the way they benefit from whiteness and become what she called good ancestors, people with a legacy of liberation for others to follow. She is a writer and speaker and podcast father, earned her bachelor of laws degree from Lancaster University of the united kingdom, her husbands two children, my a we are excited to talk with her tonight. We are excited to announce this new book is released number made on the New York Times bestseller list. Number 88 on usa today. Welcome. Happy to be here. Are you on . Here it comes. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . Sorry about that. Never happened before. Because the tv is here. You can hear me. Im going to ask the question at hand the mike over to layla saad. I will start with a fascinating workbook and really great exploration of the topic we are all interested to talk about
As part of the series we welcome layla saad. [applause] her book me and White Supremacy grout of the online effort to confront and assemble for ancestors and those who leave a legacy of liberation and a writer and speaker with a bachelor of law degree in lancaster and and then to talk with her tonight we also very excited to know that her book has already released already on the New York Times bestseller list. [applause] number 88 on usa today. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. I will ask a question i will hand the microphone over. So i will start with a fascinating book with great exploration of the topic but you are asking why people in particular to confront racism so can you talk about what motivated you specifically . It so interesting ive been asked this question but i think if i had known before embarking on this journey wide it would be ahead of time might not necessarily have chosen it. I was a life coach and a business coach or anything that would make people uncomfor
He is the author of are we there yet of are we there yet . the american automobile past,. Esent, and driverless please join me in welcoming him this evening. Thank you so much. Generous and sweet introduction. The smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. I really give you my a game to take that seriously. Intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Myrything from teaching daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. At the end of the day i want to talk about cars. I am both a lover and hater of cars for a variety of reasons. Lets get started. Keep your hands up. How many of you went to the gift shop afterwards and bought the vinyl record and brought it home and played it . These two, i know them. I realized halfway through it, how many of you own a car . How many of you own a toyota . How many of you own a mercedes . How many of you own an american car . How many o
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation
Of the before Columbus Foundation. Where about it was about eight years ago, i succeeded in that position our founder ishmael reed who were prpght to have with us during the program today. Needless to say there were some very, very big shoes to fill. Orveg toipght thank our friends here at the San Francisco jazz center who have been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years also our friends at cspan who continue to support Historical Mission and hern book awards. Ill say a few things about our direction that weve been embarked on recently. Over the past several years, we have expanded our ramming. To include a number of partnerships here in the bay area and nationally. Including those with the San Francisco Public Library who on very honored to say one of their representatives stewart shaw who has been so instrumental in facilitating collaboration between then an San Francisco Public Library has been about just this year we presented ann waled