Times. Thanks for being here. We know a lot about you, youve been on tour, redemption to earth and we know a fair amount about you, you are in the fbi 20 years. Twentyone years. You had a whole bunch of different positions, he did terrorism in 2006 and rose to the highest ranks of the bureau, Deputy Director until you were fired by attorney general Jeff Sessions, for a lack of candor in interviews and report. Correct. Much has been talked about in terms of this book, youve done a lot of interviews so i thought i would take a shot at a be asking some new questions. Sure. Before we get into the meat of this book, i had a question about writing, i do a lot of writing, sometimes everyday. I wonder, how long did it take you to write this book . What was the process like . Youre obviously a firsttime author, youve written a lot of fbi interview memos but this is something a little different. Walk me through how you tackled this project. Basically, i crashed on this project and did not think
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says
English premier league holders month to cities say they will appeal after being banned from the Champions League for 2 seasons for breaching new wafers financial rules. Story this hour the u. S. Is saying its reached a reduction of violence agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a Senior Administration official told reporters the week long pact is very specific covers all Afghan Forces and if successful could lead to a more permanent deal it follows a protracted negotiations in doha that and the meeting between the u. S. Secretary of state might pay 0 and the afghan president carney at the Munich Security Conference where al jazeera is jonah hall is also in munich and explains what more we know about the meant. We dont have a formal announcement date or indeed a time when this 7 day period would come into effect we understand the details are very specific it is to apply nationwide across afghanistan to. Roadside bombs suicide b
United states says that its reached a reduction of violence agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a Senior Administration official told reporters the weeklong act is very specific covers all Afghan Forces and if successful could lead to a more permanent deal it follows protracted negotiations in doha in a meeting between the u. S. Secretary of state and afghan president ashraf ghani at the Munich Security Conference jonah hall is also in munich force explains what we know about the agreement. We dont have a formal announcement date or indeed a time when this 7 day period would come into effect we understand the details are very specific it is to apply nationwide across afghanistan to. Roadside bombs suicide bombs rocket attacks on Afghan Forces if this period of 7 days passes with a significant reduction of violence within within 10 days talks would be shed yule to start between the Afghan Government and the taliban directly a