As regular viewers of booktv now, all of the major book festivals this spring have been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles, new orleans and san antonio as well, all cancels. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs bookstores in coral gables, florida called books and books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately, it has. We have been holding on as long as we could but it looks like starting tomorrow, we are going to be closing down all six stores in the miami area and trying to move our sales online and encourage people to buy at our website. This is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are representative of what is happening with Small Business so there are many thousands upon thousands of Small Business peop
So that when i go into the second paragraph where im like what if we took this identity apart, those people would not sort of, have a different history or body. But it would be a different relationship to identity. I think as a consequence, we have a more humane relationship to each other. When i got leader into the first paragraph when im saying an individual can be a heaven. Certainly, both someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example, john brown. Who i think are some of the most precious people in the world. Its important to me to not have a formulation that removes them. So thats what i was thinking. One more question before we move on to some of your other books. Mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yeah. Its a sentence my mother said to me. I think about it in a number of different ways. People talk about, in some ways that are difficult and maybe not a really hopeful about the challenges that black boys
Books he says a person should read in their lifetime. Watch book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. On the president and ceo of the museum of American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience, we also Live Streaming this evening and we will be on tv so we will live on forever and ever at 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] ive got text from my father the following morning thank you are on television again. Im curious, or of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening . Welcome all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museums, revolution society, this is a fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with trust, you will see that up on the screen here and i know tim but all i can see is darkness. Tim and joe mclaughlin, thank them for making this possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to welcome doctor Vincent Brown t
Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores in based in coral gables florida called books and books mr. Kaplan has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately it has. We been holding on as long as we could it looks like it looks like tomorrow will be closing down all six doors we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online. And encourage people to buy at our website this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. There are many many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people who are suffering the same way we are. Are you doing this because the st
Booktv know all of the major book festivals have been canceled cue to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to bee live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. So we know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings, but is it having an effect also on book stores and smaller businesses . Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of book stores in coral gables, florida, called book book. Has coronavirus affected your business . Guest yes, peter, unfortunately it has. We have been holding on as long as we could but looks like starting tomorrow, were going to be closing down all six stores we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online. Encourage people to buy at our website. This is happening, i believe, across the country, with independent book stores everywhere, and like normally happens in, independent book stores are very representative of what is happening with Small Business. So, many, many thousands upon tho