if i had to say what the thesis of martin s on page 1:52, you can change how other people think and act, but you are able to control you. when it comes down to it, the only question that matters is this, if nothing in the world ever changes, what type of person are you going to be? the 16 19 project is unconsciously patriotic because what it argues, despite what critics say, is that black people have believed in this country despite everything that this country is done to black people. they have loved it and they have fought to make it a country of our highest ideals. next weekend, we are honoring juneteenth with more literature that explores the black experience. keep your eyes on twitter for next author. that does it for me, thank you for watching, catching back here tomorrow morning at 10 am to noon eastern. don t forget velshi is available as a podcast, subscribe to listen for free wherever you or your podcast will be. i was where that vest when i podcast. stay right where yo
Go on peacock. stay where you are. alex gino. what a great eye-opening conversation we have been having. she is the award winning of melissa. there is more of this conversation. later this week, you will be able to catch the exclusive conversation with alex gino every only on peacock. don t miss that. that does it for me for today. catching back tomorrow morning on 8 am to 10 am on velshi. don t forget velshi is available as a podcast. you can listen to the entire show at the go anytime, subscribe, listen for free wherever you get your podcast. remember, tomorrow morning i will talk to judge michael luttig, one of the handful of people in america who stood between democracy and its collapse. we are before january 6th. stay right where you are. the cross connection with tiffany cross begins right now. be back tomorrow.
Vibes to the cross connection. good to see you, see you at 10:00, the cross connection comes up next. and the velshi banned book club is almost in session including the top book every year since the publication in 2015. melissa by, alex gino. the coming of age story is like so many we have red together. why is it being banned all over the nation? the answer is not going to surprise you. it tells a story of a young transgender girl. that is next. transgender girl that is next that is next ) wahoooo! (vo) you can be well-groomed. or even well-spoken. (man) ooooooo. (vo) but there s just something about being well-adventured. (man) wahoooooo! (vo) adventure on a deeper level. discover more in the subaru forester wilderness. love. it s what makes subaru, subaru. subaru is the national park foundation s largest corporate donor. what will you do? what will you change?
Today s velshi ban book future. melissa, it was the children stonewall word, the land of literary award, and the children choice book award. alex, thank you for joining us. and for being a member of the velshi book club today. thank you, thank you for having me, thank you for your kind words, that was wonderful. let s talk about the name of the book. first of all, melissa, members of the velshi fan of the club may have this, book may have seen is on bookshelves are reddit, but had a different title. it was called george. they traded with officially changed last year. tell me about the name change. sure. it is hard, in some ways, to think now, of how quickly things are changing. but when i start to this book in 2003, i had no thought that it would be published, i called it guerrilla george to myself as a joke. then it was published, it became a george, and it was right about when i got the first copies that i thought
You can t fix it unless you acknowledge that there is a mistake. and that something needs to change. back in 2019, you wrote an essay for the office of intellectual freedom of the american library association of being the author of the number one most band book that here. you concluded part by saying maybe being mislabeled as objectionable content while being asked to cough cannot comment on it as an academic curiosity, it s a delicate dance, i m fatigued, and quote. i want to address, that it s a delicate dance, it s something we perform on the velshi banned book club. with every author. tell me about the delicate dance. it must be fatiguing. on one hand, we are sticking it to the man by putting this book on the velshi than book club. on the other hand, you do not get the bill the author of a book. it is not an honor, it s not a great thing. even in cases where my book at additional light coming on here, thank you for having me. if some liberal a thought buys