justice system. how do we start the revolving door. >> let me address this because this is the issue i think every state and federal trial judge deals with everyday. we have 5 percent of the worlds population and 25 percent of the prisoners. there is something wrong with the. it is crazy. and i ask every young man who pleads guilty in front of me my first question is, how far did you go in school. >> exactly asked the same question. >> exactly they are almost all virtually functionally uneducated. it is the path to the jailhouse, the lack of it and it is the one uniting figure of young men of color who go to jail, they have not had educational achievement and opportunity and were never going to turn around until the

beat address these problems. whole each of us has to ask. >> thank you very much and you can approach us after the event if you still want to talk. >> my question is given this dialect on race. do you suggest the we need or require a judicial of remedies to start the dialogue on racism.

>> i'm going to say that the courts have a role, but congress have a role in the executive of people have a role and you can't rely just on the course for this. we have our role and we will do our role but it has to be the entire country. and educators, the role the we as storytellers, we have to keep telling the story. over and over and over again. too younger and younger audiences. it becomes part of our national narrative. brian stevenson, the just mercy, i call it the lynching museum [laughter] now it is properly called. the legacy museum. thank you. i encourage you to go if you haven't seen it. it was a narrative, the south lost the civil war but when the narrative work. we have to do is change the narrative. one of the reasons that i am so

happy for the popularity of fighting roots is the we have a political message and subtle each week. and that is the we are all of one sort of another all immigrant from this country. even native americans came here 16000 years ago, they came from someplace else. in the african slavery's didn't come here willingly but they did come from someplace else. we are all immigrants. when we do sandy allen analysis, am so pleased because no matter what your differences are, under the microscope, as it were the 99.99 percent the same. we are in all of this together. we are all americans. [applause] we don't need walls, you need to tear walls down. that is what we have to do.

civic i would say if there's one message that i would want to tell the story teller is to remind this country the racial justice has never come easily or swiftly. there is always resistance. it is the history of the united states that is backlash that the professor gates is talking about. this rollback. it's not just in reconstruction, it's every time there is resistance. if we all accept the as a narrative, the phenomenon, we will understand better than ever why it is so difficult to make progress. civic well put. just as do you have anything. >> i think it's been a wonderful discussion. thank you very much. i want to much for joining us. one more hand. >> thank you very much and i

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the wraps up our live coverage of this year's national film book festival. you can visit our website book to be .org. every year book tv covers book fairs and festivals around the country. here's a look at some coming up this fall. in september, look for us at the brooklyn book festival in new york city. then on october 11th through the 13th, is the southern festival of books in nashville. the following weekend, the boston book festival welcomes

over 300 figures in the wisconsin book festival anticipates over 15000 people in attendance. also later in the month, and in for a coverage at the texas book festival in austin. for more information about upcoming festivals and watch previous festivals. good book tv .org. >> we don't do many children's books on book tv but we are going to feature yours. apply now. why do you think were going to talk about your book. >> is an adult children book but it is perfectly good for children but is also high political and what i really appreciate including you having me on the show. if you recognize the it is a political book for grown-ups. when it first came out, he was never one new release on amazon

three weeks in a rope in both children's environmental books and adult political book. it has humor. people get this. it is all about environmental issues. it is basically beginning with a father reading to his terrified child. terrified about global warming and just one by one, go through and i studied the political. i go through all of the fairies apopka .-ellipsis is, my made up plural for apocalypses. the irony is, you can't have more than one apocalypse. and not even once, all the way back to when i was a child, when they first threatened global cooling and freezing. after the there was a hole in the ozone the was going to get us. after the it was as agreed, one by one, i list all of the various apopka line the we have been threatened with then somehow we are still here. >> when did you get interested

in the in these issues. >> the issue really is the education of our children. to frighten children never let a good crisis go to waste. what is better crisis than the one that is going to in the world. so i just want her children to be afraid of global warming, be concerned and do the things we can do. i'm not going to deny things necessarily. i'm just saying let's avoid hysteria the allows people to take advantage of us because we are so afraid. there's our money and power and freedom. it really is los of a denier of the book then it is saying hey we have been here before. we have dealt with thousand rain and killer b's and medco and we have dealt with these things, go to sleep my child. you will be okay. al gore has made a lot of money off of these crisis. >> family the the hypocrisy of how he lives.

they fly on the private jet planes to these events. but they want us to have a 60-watt or a 40-watt bold. you'd be so much more convincing if they practiced what they preached. it would be so much more convincing. hypocrisy doesn't just mean you preach higher ideals because of human shortcomings you fail. we are going to fail because were human. but this is the idea that the rules don't apply to you. this very scary thing when you're talking about government and power. the ruling class the doesn't think the rules apply to them. so when alcor is a hypocrite, that's pretty disconcerting. do you write books full-time questioner. >> i say i have a conservative thought industry. this is the first time i have written a children's book which is also an adult book, the kindergarten of eden and how the

modern liberal thanks. not ronald ragan, margaret thatcher, me. >> what was the.of the lecture. >> i explain how it is the there are so many good generous smart loving people like my cousins and neighbors and democrats and how do they reject back in reason, and in doing so, invariably side with evil failure and wrong. you look at ferguson missouri. and decide the this racist cop shot down an innocent young black child in cold blood. how do you get it so wrong. but how you look at the middle east and decided not only is the tiny liberal democracy in israel the problem, not all of the homophobic and a little bit anti-semitic muslim nation, the all of the nations on the planet, that is the one nation

you're going to boycott and sanction. how do you look at the facts and get some wrong. i explain it in a way that is satisfied so many. my history is an educator and a television writer and a comedian. the movie writer and a documentarian. i don't usually get involved in politics. is my first time in washington dc as a speaker. it continues to go viral this day. smith who is your illustrator. >> cartoonist. the funny thing about it is you know his work, you've seen a thousand times. scribbled the names and the karma he is everywhere. his nationally syndicated in the fact the he jumped on, to my project, that i wrote this and i said to him, you do a cartoon everything today. can you do 20 for me.

the fact the he said yes, the really give me a feeling the he got something here. >> thank you for spinning a few minutes with us in here is the book. but i know by evan. thanks for being with us. to make thank you for having me. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. jim manus and author being west, kemp military career and his views on leadership. former senior advisor to the president bill clinton and hillary clinton, sydney, continues his multivolume biography of the life of abraham lincoln in all of the powers of earth. in defending israel, author and attorney reflects on his efforts to advocate for israel over the past four years. and historian susan, recalls the life of publishing.

also being published this week in superfund, new york times technology correspondent mike isaac, examines the rise of uber. new york times editorial writer, profiles the economists who push for free market following world war ii in the economist hour. in paragraph, former utah jason, offers his thoughts on the efforts by democrats to undermine president trump. andy proof of conspiracy, argues the president trump has conspired with foreign leaders. look for the titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the future on book tv. on c-span. now on c-span two book tv more television for serious readers. cspan2. [inaudible conversation]