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Is next, from hyde park, new york, home of the fdr president ial library and the annual roosevelt reading festival. Hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. To for oh who are new, welcome to the 2016 ralph reading festival. Were so glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. Well talk for half an hour, about ten minutes of question and answer, and then i will go back and set up and you can get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this year here at the library. This is going to be our 75th 75th anniversar...

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So anybody watching doesnt ever end up at the water fountain the next day and sail my gosh, i dont know they thought that or somebody had that perspective or that point. That would change. So so to me that his role. T but what it does for me as it makes me bring my a game every time. I have to be prepared. If youre going up against bill riley, you want, you want to avoid be in the pinhead, big time. You will make sure you know what youre talking about have confidence in it before you engage in that conversation. So how does that affect the writing of the book . Pe it opens my eyes to the idea ...

S. [inaudible] ultimately what hope for the book is that young man gets a sense of what it takes herself interrogation, to ask questions of oneself and ones identity and position in the world. I think that theres a pretty establish narrative for what it is to be a young black man and experience racism and White Supremacy of what that looks light. We have a body of literature that deals with that. We have the folklore. We have the oral history of what that looks like but i dont think weve worked on enough is for young black men and thinking through what it means to experience that but also be i...

Edition of booktv in primetime on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. For those who are new to the session, welcome to the 2016 roosevelt reading festival. So glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. I will talk for about a half hour, then about ten minutes of question and answer, and then hell go out and set up and be able to get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this ear year at the library. 75th every at 75th 75th anniversary at the end of the month, and th...