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sako. the more things change, the more things stay the same. an adage that seems tailor made for race relations in america. after eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. how best to respond? my guest today is paul beatty, whose prize winning novel sellout is a devised satire to unpick the black american experience. it is funny and provocative but is it also fundamentally bleak? paul beatty, welcome to hardtalk. let me start with a broad question. it seems to be optimism has always been seen as the default mood setting of american history. are you an optimist? iam not! i am not a pessimist either. reading the book, the sellout which has caused a storm and won the booker prize, some would read it and think, gosh, this man has a very bleak world view. i don t think it is that bleak really, in a weird way. i think hopefully within the energy, there is a kind of some ....
the more things change, the more things stay the same. an adage that seems tailor made for race relations in america. after eight years of a black president, amid a swirl of demographic and social change, black americans still feel the bite of discrimination and prejudice. how best to respond? my guest today is paul beatty, whose prize winning novel sellout is a devised satire to unpick the black american experience. it is funny and provocative but is it also fundamentally bleak? paul beatty, welcome to hardtalk. let me start with a broad question. it seems to be optimism has always been seen as the default mood setting of american history. are you an optimist? iam not! i am not a pessimist either. reading the book, the sellout which has caused a storm and won the booker prize, some would read it and think, gosh, this man has a very bleak world view. i don t think it is that bleak really, in a weird way. i think hopefully within the energy, there is a kind of something ....
to friday, and the text is attached with this picture of him with pen and paper at his desk. let s discuss and paper at his desk. let s discuss a little bit more now and talk about foreign policy, the potential legacy of president obama. good to see you, thanks for being with us, you sat through the whole of that commie did talk about russia, israel, the middle east, but i think, overriding his references to foreign policy was the idea that america has an overarching role to play in the world, and it needs to use its influence, its power, its prestige for good. and i think, in a way, that was a response to some of the comments that trump made over the weekend, criticising the european union, criticising the leadership of angela merkel, arguing that the eu was a fundamental competitor to the us and he was ambivalent about its fate. i think trump is a break not only from the democratic presidency of barack obama, but the bipartisan tradition in terms of seeing the united ....
areas will generate interest from your questions and most of the questions are about executive orders, what the presidents can use them for, if there are any checks, can they sign of funding or of congress needs to get involved. we have been looking at the questions on executive orders, anthony will join us in about 15 minutes and we can work through a lot of these issues. we must turn to some other really significant developments. let us really significant developments. let us do that. bit by bit. there are reports that mr trump might intend to lift a ban on cia black site prisons, secret prisons or non us territory used for interrogations and well president george w bush was in power. the new york times says there is a draft executive order that would roll back a series of restrictions that barack obama set on the treatment of detainees other media has this draft order, too. but let s take note of this the white house press secretary sean spicer says this document ....
over tv because you re such an expert in ratings. and i ll take over your job expert in ratings. and i ll take over yourjob and people can finally sleep comfortably again. coming up on sportsday. two days to go until the start of the six nations and home nations teams have been announced. good evening. phil shiner a human rights lawyer who brought dozens of allegations of murder and torture against british soldiers who served in iraq has been struck off for dishonesty. mr shiner, a former solicitor of the year, has paid thousands of pounds to a fixer to find iraqi clients. he d already admitted acting without integrity and his firm, is no longer in business. the defence secretary, sir michael fallon, said mr shiner had brought great pain to soldiers and their families and should apologise. our defence correspondent jonathan beale has been following the case. once an award winning human rights lawyer, tonight phil shiner‘s reputation lies in tatters. he made his na ....