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michael eric dyson is possibly our best customer. he's gotta be up there at the top of our best customers. he's a professor and an incredibly prolific author. he's written 50 or 60 books including can you hear me now. it's great to have him. it's always great to be with him. joy-ann reid who we hosted just a few weeks ago for her new book. i hope you've had a chance to read it. if you haven't you have to get it, it, it's called fracture. it's one of the smartest books about american politics, especially about the evolution of race in the democratic party. it's a fantastic book. thank you so much for being here. what a contribution that book is. and then lastly, but not least, paul butler who is the author of let's get free. he is one of the most respected civil rights activist in the country per he's a professor at georgetown law. we are so delighted to have you. i feel very, very happy to be in such great company with all of them and with all of you. but i just want to say a couple more things about april. many of you know she is a

michael eric dyson is possibly our best customer. [laughter] he just rolled out a dollar figure that he thinks he's spent in the store. i'm not going to hold you to it, but he's got to be up there at the top of best customers. he's a professor, incredibly prolific author, he's written, i don't know, 15 or 16 weeks including -- books, including can you hear me now. so it's great to have him. such a friend of our store, we're so delighted always to be with him. joy ann reid, who we hosted also just a few weeks ago for her new book. i hope you've had a chance to read it. if you haven't, you've got to get it, it's called "fracture." it's one of the smartest books, honestly, about american politics, especially about the evolution of race of the democratic party, fantastic book. thank you, joy ann, so much for being here. what a contribution that book is. of course, we've got it here for you, so come right up afterwards. and lastly but, of course, not least, paul butler who's the author of "let's get free," and he's one of the most respect

michael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and author of the upcoming book, the black presidency, obamaf race in america. that's a long title for the book. >> it is. >> so you're making the case, hillary clinton is going to be better for black america than president obama. >> look, president obama has been incredibly, especially over the last year. but he's has tension and pressure put on him as a result of being a black man. he had to worry himself, am i showing that i'm too, if you will, deferential to african americans. so he had to pull back in expressions and embrace, whereas hillary clinton is not burden with that internal fever that will rise to a certain pitch. >> this was all over the first pitch. april ryan consistently, she does an urban radio -- >> right. >> she would ask him about black unemployment, and he would say i'm worried about unemployment for everybody. >> he's been different in the second half of the second term. he's now in his fourth quarter acknowledging that and we're grateful for that. so where is he now is great. he talks about race, he embraces the challeng

>> i want to get your reaction to this, the new republic, you know michael eric dyson.ry clinton will do more for blacks than president obama. here is part of his piece. if hillary learns from black lives matter and in turn teaches them a thing or two it may not be a match made in heaven. that's what many said about obama but it may yield more action on race than we've had for far, far too long. do you think he's right? >> i disagree. he is entitled to his upon. michael is a good friend. from the get-go he has had friction. cornell west, they have it in for obama. i support my president. i think he's -- when we look back on history we will see someone who is one of the greatest american presidents. >> black lives matter. you have said that they need to -- you support what they do and what they do is important, but? >> there was no but. i was speaking as myself, as a black man in the united states of america. i cannot jump on the cops 24/7 and then be deaf and dumb when like a 9-year-old tyshawn lee is executed in the back of his head. at the same time we are talking abo

georgetown professor michael eric dyson and alex castellanos, founder of newrepublican.org. tthew, let me start with you. how much is this going to change the presidential campaign? >> all of these incidences that we're seeing, part of the problem, vast majority of the country don't feel safe, the facts don't seem to matter in relationship to the fearar. both sides haven't addressed this in the right way. president obama have skipped right over people's fears, we have the solution and we're going to fix it. the republicans have only repealed to people's fears. you have to base whatever policy we're going to do based upon what the facts are and what in people's heads. >> what do you need to hear from >> actually, you know,ecretary clinton laid out a bit of what we expecte'll hear from president, how to control isis here and road and on the internet. she laid out a comprehensive strategy. my guess is, he'll be doing something like this. the democrats are laying out spspecifics. she asked for congress to reauthorize the use of military force and to update it so they can attack.

. >> yeah, michael eric dyson's great -- my colleague both here as well as in the academy, and his book was, "is bill cosby right or has the black middle class lost its mind?" or something of that version. and this idea that kind of the civil rights generation, black middle class was looking back at a group of young people facing a whole set of structural inequalities and saying to them, well, we got rid of jim crow, so there's no reason that you can't be everything. and yet, it turns out that the whole time, he's actually -- or at least, there is a real possibility that the entire time, he is also perpetrating sexual assaults. >> and that is the craziest thing about this. is that not only is this someone who if the charges -- again, these are all alleged, right? if the 50 plus women. let's put up theda dai"daily ne that's a numeralical recounting, an empirical fact about the allegations. >> but let me say this. if it turns out that we come as a country to decide that it is true or if the justice system comes to decide that he, in fact, assaulted these women, the kind of guilt that you

joining us now msnbc contributor analyst, michael eric dyson.le hillary clinton will do more for black people than obama." you write what can hillary clinton do for black people as president? she possesses neither her husband's perform tiff charisma with black folk, nor obama's undie anywayable blackness. mean just maybe we will get from hillary clinton what we most need and truly deserve, a set of political practices and policies that reinforce the truth that black lives must and do finally matter. joe? >> michael, thank you for being with us. the thrust of your column is so provocative, i don't know where to begin. so why don't you tell us, what's barack obama done to disappoint black black voters and what in the world can hillary clinton do better for black voters than what barack obama has done ofve the past seven years? >> let me say i think barack obama will go down as one of the best presidents. what he has done for health care and -- >> you talk about dashed hopes. >> i'm talking specifically in regard to race, president obama like his f

we had michael eric dyson, and author himself who has various books and i was the moderator. we had a series of discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race. and from authors who have written about it and researched, who are experts in the field. we had a panel discussion on it. we had people from all walks of life, very adverse group of people who are in the audience and asked about it, ask questions. it was a great discussion get it was like the beginning of a discussion that needs to happen in this nation and we want to say thank you, i'm a booktv and politics and prose. we are going to do this again i believe in february so i hope booktv will be there but we had a discussion, discussion was needed and we will see that discussion keep going. >> host: april ryan from the white house and "the presidency in black and white." >> tonight on booktv we look at isis and terrorism. >> this new year's we can booktv brings you three days of nonfiction books and authors the republican party has been be in the 1892 election. grover cleveland as coming to office. mckinley has

talks about criminal justice , george read who wrote the book fractured michael eric dyson on this book. a serious discussion on issues of race. and from authors who have written about it, researched who are experts in their field and the panel discussion, people from all walks of life who actually were in the audience, it was a great discussion. it was like the beginning of a discussion. book tv thanks you. and we're going to do this again in february. >> from the white house and the presidency. >> at this year's national book festival in washington dc we will be taking any new >> joins us here