Author dave berry, lets begin where you begin in yourst book is to state ever. What is wrong with the state of florida . We do have a reputation for stupid ear to people, and there are many people doing stupid ear things here. But my argument is it is not our fault. The example i gave, and i know i apologize personally but there was a famous example couple ofcp years ago where a woman was driving south on the overseas highway in the key west and according to the Highway Patrol report was in a hurry to get to key west because she wanted to see her boyfriend and shave her bikini region in preparation so a lot of people would pull off to the side of the road just for that. But again she was in a hurry soh she outsourced the steering of the car to the person who was the passenger whapassenger who s her exhusband. Very florida detail. [laughter] so they are going south, shes operating the accelerator, he ih operating the car and she is shaving. What can go wrong. The car in front of them, o
At the festival book tv continues if you listened to the last panel that we held the topic was slavery in america one of the authors iban kendi is joining us for call in program. One been professor kendi, your parents were activist quick. Guess. They were involved in black theology movement in the late 60s and early 70s among black christians to were interested to say that jesus is black and god is black so take christianity from the church to the streets into a dense black america so i was raised in that type of activist setting. When did you become ibran kendi . I married a beautiful and intelligent woman and be decided to change our names together and we both chose kendi when we wed in 2013. Is from a kenyan language and it signifies mud one. So it was special for us of course,. Host how was winning the National Book award changed your life at the university of florida or wherever else complex. So to meet the biggest and best change is that theyd take it seriously and decided to pic
The last panel that we held the topic was slavery in america one of the authors iban kendi is joining us for call in program. One been professor kendi, your parents were activist quick. Guess. They were involved in black theology movement in the late 60s and early 70s among black christians to were interested to say that jesus is black and god is black so take christianity from the church to the streets into a dense black america so i was raised in that type of activist setting. When did you become ibran kendi . I married a beautiful and intelligent woman and be decided to change our names together and we both chose kendi when we wed in 2013. Is from a kenyan language and it signifies mud one. So it was special for us of course,. Host how was winning the National Book award changed your life at the university of florida or wherever else complex. So to meet the biggest and best change is that theyd take it seriously and decided to pick it up and were willing to uncritically engage the h