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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 ....
fruition and see stories of kids that s going through the same thing i went through, it makes it even more like yes, we did this. this is why we should have did it. but there is a lot that has got lebron james fired up off the court. listen to what he says about living while black in america. no matter how big you can become or no matter what you do in the community. no matter what you do in your profession, being african american in america is always tough, and they always going to let you know that you are the n-word no matter who you are. is there a run for office in his future? someone tried to recruit a lebron to run for president, they said listen, they got no one. if you don t run, trump is going to win. would you run? well, in that case i may. this is the interview that you don t want to miss. lebron james, one on one. thank you. A recap of the day s news. they brought this together and brought it to me. i was like absolutely. you can t get nowhere in ....
i don t think so. i don t think so. i sit here and say i don t think so. i don t know. i m being serious. if someone tried to recruit lebron to run for president, they said listen, they ve got no one. if you don t run, trump s going win, would you run? well, in that case, i may. if they have no one, there i believe are some people out there. i hope. but let s see first. let s see first. we also talked about living while black and how even money and fame don t insulate you from racism. much more on that interview in just a moment. but let s start with the president s week, shall we? i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst max boot and molly ball. good evening. good evening. max, president trump was on the attack this week, lashing out at everyone, saying that sessions should shut down the mueller investigation, contradicting his national security team on russia, trying to distance himself from paul manafort. what does this tell you about his frame of mind? wel ....
A recap of the day s news. really thinks. part of it, pick up on what molly said, he gets bored. okay, he plays golf. but you can t play golf 12 hours a day. so he is basically knocking around on these giant resorts, and he gets bored. and he basically wants to fire off some of this zing they re will make all of us talk about him, because i think this is ultimately what his presidency about, it s about getting attention and being the center of the universe. and he know he can do that if he says something sufficiently crazy on twitter. he gets bored. watches a lot of tv. but there are things happening behind the scenes that we re not seeing. and part of what was behind the tweet storm earlier this week, it wasn t just the external need we knew he was watching or at least aware of the manafort trial. well also subsequently learned that there were more negotiations going on with the mueller team behind the scenes. a renewed attempt to get the president to sit down for an inte ....