[applause] good afternoon. The telling of history is consequential and recognition is consequential also. I am deeply honored and appreciated to receive the american book award today. I am also very honored to share it with the other recipients today who have presented such rot and real engagements for social life. Not the least it is also quite an honor to share the award with previous recipients, some of the people who shaped my intellectual development. Kerry snyder, edwards i eat, and very baraka. I want to thank first of all waldo martin column aye author. We spent many years together working on this vote. I want to thank my friends and family in the audience in my many comrades and colleagues who helped make this poker reality along the way. There are too many to thank individually. You know who you are and i never could have dreamed of getting here without you. Thank you. The recognition is nice, or writing the history of the black interparty let alone the 12 years that, but the
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