please welcome jason reynolds and ibram x. kendi, welcome, welcome, gentlemen, to "the daily show." >> thank you. >> thank you. >> trevor: great to see you again but let's jump into the book, which a lot of people would see it coming and go why would i read this, racism, anthonanti-racism and you. why did you write it this way? >> young people don't like history books. you start it off by not being a history book and okey-doke them. >> trevor: has it been designed in a way you can read it and understand without feeling too much? is that what you've tried to do for younger readers? >> racism is historiccable, it's rooted in the past, but you can constantly see it operating in daily life and you can constantly see how it's going to operate tomorrow, and that's what we wanted to sort of show for young people. >> trevor: the two of you came together jason and ibram and you worked on the story of telling the story of racism, and you have short chapters in the book, which is really interesting. it doesn't follow the format of a normal boo

ibram x kendi and reynolds join us this morning. welcome.and you say now it is not a work of history, it is a book about the present b-the here and now. why position it that way >> for a few reasons. number one young people don't like to read history books. so, to ensure them it's not a history book, it's sort of an open book. number two, because, because we do live on a continuum. all of our lives are affected by what happened before us our present is a put of our history. it's not what happened then but what's happening now. >> i love the two of you have paired up. i'm curious how you met and got together. >> we were both fortunate enough to be nominated for a national book award in 2016. i was saying iosn lewis. therefore i won as well. >> he wrote a book for the scholarly community and gets its readership and he comes along and says let me help you reach another audience. >> that didn't happen. >> i asked him multiple times and he said, no. >> why? >> why did you finally say yes? >> i said no because i had an awful lot of respect for dr.