in just a minute, ibram kendi will be speaking. he is a national book award winning historian and will be discussing stamp from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america. good morning, everyone. welcome to the 33rd annual chicago printers wrote lit fest. my name is thomas and i'm i like to think the possible sponsors. today's program is being broadcasted live on c-span twos book tv and we will use the time at the end for audience questions so when the time comes please line up at the microphones to your right. will hope the audience will be able to hear. as always, make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes at this point in time. with that, please welcome the colonists from the chicago tribune mac praised him in presenting that award voyage through the history of u.s. rhetoric. [laughter] >> so even as professor of history at the university of florida, also a finalist for the book critic circle award and i just learned today that while in undergraduate school iibram was interested

ibram x. kendi, can you respond what's happened over the last few weeks? ram: well, i think that's "the attempted to do in new york times" piece. and i try to sort of think about how is it that jurors, how is it their defenders could look at the facts of the castile case and look at the facts of some of these other cases and still acquit these police officers and still make the case that these police officers did nothing wrong and still make the case that these black people who are died did everything wrong. and you know, the more i thought about it, the more i realized that basically in making the case that these police officers were racist, the americans would have to make the case that their nation is racist. and as you know, there's been so many americans who fell in love with this idea that their nation is post racial and they're doing everything in their power to sort of defend that idea. and the way they end up defending it is by constantly blaming black people for these incidents with police. and it's just really heartbreaking that americans, that p

in just a minute, ibram kendi will be speaking. he is a national book award winning historian and will be discussing stamp from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america.

amy: talking to historian ibram x. kendibook won the national book awards "stamped from the beginning, the definitive history of racist ideas in america." and you talk about overall racial inequities. from everything from wealth to health. certainly when we look at what's happening right now in the senate, though the health re bill has been put off for the moment, now opposed by nine republicans who run the political spectrum feeling that regulations like what senator paul of kentucky have to be stricter, that medicaid and and health care policies safety nets have to be dismantled to those who feel this is way too stringent but always at the bottom of this you have the most vulnerable in society. so talk about from wealth to health, professor kendi. ibram: from wealth, i mean, the great recession, some have made the case was one of the largest losses of black wealth in american history, one of the largest losses of latino wealth in american history, that when we have these major economic catastrophes, those people who are th

at noon, ibram kendi and his book "stamped from the beginning." followed at 1:00 by michael eric diyson with "tears we cannot stop." and at 4:00, sidney blumenthal with his book "a self made man." on sunday, our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with heather ann thompson and her book "blood in the water." at 2:00, author geoffrey stone with his book "sex and the constitution." and then account 3:00, former congressman trey radel with his book "democrazy." and at 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book "churchill and orwell." watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers row lit fest starting saturday 11:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >>> this sunday, hyde park, new york, at the roosevelt presidential library and museum where we go inside for a rare look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with paul spi ro, the museum's director. >> this library opened in june of 1941. he was still president of the united states and the northern oval office. fdr has an incredibly inquisitive mind. there are 22,000 books, 914 bo