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CSPAN2 Book TV April 10, 2010



[applause] .. leonard miller is an african-american and president of the nascar racing team. he reveals his obstacles and bouts of racism in the white dominated sport. a free library of philadelphia is the host of this event. it is about one hour. we don t have a script here so we just want to have a nice discussion about the book. i also wanted to mention towards the beginning that racing while black has already been nominated as one of the top 12 books to read by auto week, so please be mindful of that. [applause] thank you. i am going to go ahead and direct the first question to you , lenny as i have been calling you for two and a half or three years now i think. let s just start with the ominous question, why did you do this book? several reasons. basically to document my father and i, our history that we had in this present effort that started in 1993, developing stock-car drivers for nascar and we found in the industry a lot of black history and efforts were ....

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