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USAUSTIN. UGENERAL ROBINSON WILL BE DISCUSSING HIS BOOK, "DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA." [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] S [INAUDIBLE...
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ON THIS PICTURE PERFECT DAY, I WANT TO SAY, AIN'T IT GREAT TO BE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. [APPLAUSE] >> I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE TEXAS BOOK FAIR. I'M...
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AND COLUMNIST FOR THE AUSTIN AMERICAN -- THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I WILL BE YOUR MODERATOR TODAY. YOU MIGHT SAY THAT THIS IS LIKE A FIRST DATE FOR ME...
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I HAVE MODERATE FOR THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL AND, BOY, DID I LUCK OUT ON MY FIRST DAY. [APPLAUSE] >> I GET TO INTRODUCE A GREAT JOURNALIST, A GREAT WRITER,...
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| 00:02:03 |
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FORGIVE ME IF I'M GUSHING AND GIDDY. BEFORE I GOT TO THE INTRO, I HAVE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF THE HOUSEKEEPING DUTIES. YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO AFTER THE...
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BLACK STUDENT TO BE NAMED CO-ED DID FOR IN CHIEF OF THE MICHIGAN DAILY. HE BEGAN HIS JOURNALISM CAREER AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND JOINED THE...
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT, SHOWCASING GRACEFUL WRITING AND GRASP OF THE LARGER HISTORIC PICTURE. ROBINSON LIVES IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, WITH HIS WIFE...
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IS, AH, SHUCKS. >> I READ THIS BOOK AND THERE WERE A LOT OF SURPRISES IN THIS BOOK FOR ME. WE DECIDED TO TALK ABOUT THIS LIKE A
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DISCUSSION AND LET HIM DO MOST OF THE TALKING, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WON -- WONDERED ABOUT THE TITLE. PIE DISINTEGRATION. "DON'T ASK, DON'T" TELL US...
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FULL PROPS ON THAT. I LIKE THE TITLE, AND MY EDITOR AND PUBLISHER LIKED IT, EVERYBODY LIKED IT BECAUSE DOES HAVE THAT AMBIGUITY ABOUT IT. INTEGRATION,...
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THIS IT WHAT REALLY BLEW MY MIND. TOTALLY BLEW ME AWAY. YOU TALK ABOUT -- YOU INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT THAT BLACK AMERICA IS NO LONGER ONE BLACK AMERICA...
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FOUR GROUPS. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THERE WERE GREED-UPON BLACK LEADERS, AND WHEN THERE WAS A CLEAR BLACK AGENDA, WHEN WE COULD TALK CONFIDENTLY ABOUT...
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| 00:21:41 |
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POWER AND HIM BEING IN THAT TRANSSEND DENT GROUP. IT BROUGHT IT TOGETHER FOR HIM AND BROUGHT IT TOGETHER FOR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, AND HOW THE SITUATION...
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WHICH NO ONE BEHAVED WELL. EVERYBODY BEHAVED BADLY. AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE SITUATION WHERE, WHAT WE THINK OF AS THE TRADITIONAL POWER RELATIONSHIPS...
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| 00:26:23 |
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FELT CERTAIN WHITES VIEWED WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID NOT AS A STATEMENT JUST COMING ABOUT, WELL, THIS IS STUPID, BUT ALMOST AS A RACIAL IDENTITY -- >>...
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| 00:26:48 |
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I ONCEOT
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A -- WROTE A COLUMN DURING THE ELECTION, AND I SAID FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO GET ELECTED HE
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HAD TO BE PERCEIVED AS -- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TRUE THAT WAS AT THE TIME. I'VE SEEN SURVEYS -- I WISH I KNEW CHAPTER AND VERSE ON THIS BUT I SAW A SURVEY...
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| 00:29:01 |
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CIVIL RIGHTS
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| 00:29:03 |
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ACT. BUT TALKING
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| 00:29:05 |
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ABOUT THIS WHOLE DISINTEGRATION AND SPLINTERING OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY, YOU ALSO HIT ON THE TOPIC OF THE GREAT MIGRATION, AND I DID NOT REALIZE THAT...
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| 00:29:50 |
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OF TOWN, BLACK SIDES OF TOWN. THERE WAS JIM CROW SEGREGATION, WHICH HAD THE FORCE OF LAW. SO, THERE WERE LAWS THAT SEGREGATED PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS....
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MINUTES LEFT IN THE SESSION. ONE QUICK -- ONE MORE QUICK QUESTION. EUGENE. WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA? >> YOU KNOW,...
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WHAT FRUSTRATED ME AT THE OUTSET WAS THAT -- TO THE EXTENT WE TALK ABOUT BLACK AMERICA, WE TALK ABOUT IT, I THOUGHT, AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 50 YEARS AGO....
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YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> AND --
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| 00:36:29 |
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WE HAVE ABOUT TEN MINUTES SO PLEASE BE BRIEF. >>
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DO YOU THINK THE -- DO YOU THINK THE
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ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL MAKE IT EASIER OR MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE
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NEXT BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. >> WILL THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA MAKE IT EASIER OR MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE NEXT BLACK
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| 00:36:50 |
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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? WELL, YOU KNOW, ON THE WHOLE I WOULD SAY EASIER. BECAUSE BEFORE BARACK OBAMA WE DIDN'T KNOW THERE WOULD -- THAT WE'D BE TALKING...
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| 00:37:56 |
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THE N-WORD, BUT IF YOU'RE A LITTLE MORE POLITE YOU USED THE WORLD COLORED, AND IF YOUR WERE LIBERAL YOU SAID NEGRO, AND BY THE TIME I WAS TEENAGER,...
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| 00:38:37 |
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I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT GOES, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. MAYBE THIS WILL STICK AROUND FOR A WHILE. SOME PEOPLE -- I'VE HEARD AS I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE...
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| 00:39:03 |
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OF YOURS AND WATCH YOU ON TV AND READ YOUR COLUMNS. >>
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THANK YOU. >> ONE OF THE THING IS NOTICE ABOUT
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YOU IS KIND OF YOUR BEMUSED TAKE ON
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MOST THINGS, BE THEY
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| 00:39:13 |
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RACIAL OR POLITICAL OR WHATEVER, AND I JUST WONDER WHERE THAT COMES FROM? HOW DO YOUR KEEP -- [LAUGHTER] >> IT'S NOT FROM MEDICATION. [LAUGHTER] >> I...
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| 00:39:27 |
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ASK MY GOOD FRIEND
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| 00:39:31 |
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PAT BUOY CAN BUCHANAN, AND I HAVE WANTED TO THROTTLE HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES. I'VE
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| 00:39:40 |
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COME CLOSE. COMES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS FULL OF SAYINGS. SHE DIED AT 98, AND SHE JUST WAS A FOUNTAIN OF SAYINGS, AND SHE USED TO SAY, WELL, JUST...
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| 00:40:29 |
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IN 2010 TO HAVE A STRATEGIC IMPACT AND QUOTES THE CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES. TO MAKE THE POINT THAT THEY CAN DO THIS BECAUSE THERE...
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| 00:41:12 |
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AND CONFIDENTLY ABOUT BLACK VOTERS IN TERMS OF WHO THEY WILL VOTE FOR, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW. FOR SOME TIME, BLACK VOTERS HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY IN...
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| 00:43:16 |
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LET'S MAKE IT BRIEF. >> IN THE COURSE OF CREATING BLACKNESS WERE YOU TOLD THAT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY COME TO A
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CONCRETE GENERAL CONSENSUS WHAT CONSTITUTES BLACKNESS? >> WE HAVEN'T AND THAT'S AN OPEN, SHIFTING DEFINITION, AND USED TO BE IF YOU HAD ONE DROP
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| 00:43:40 |
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OF AFRICAN BLOOD, YOU WERE BLACK, AND THEN I WONDER IF THAT'S STILL THE CASE TO THE EXTENT THAT IT USED TO BE. MOST PEOPLE ARE BIRACIAL. BLACK AND WHITES...
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| 00:44:24 |
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THE TALENTED -- 10% OF THE BLACK POPULATION WERE OUR
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ARISTOCRACY OR OUR ELITE AND THAT WAS ALMOST 100 YEARS AGO, 50 YEARS AGO, MALCOM X TALK ABOUT THE FIELD NEGRO AND -- HE USED DIFFERENT WORDS. >> UH-HUH....
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| 00:44:48 |
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ARE
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| 00:44:49 |
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FRAGMENTED, POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY, IS A NO-BRAINER, AND TO TRY TO FIND EVIDENCE OF THAT, BILL COSBY GOT IN TROUBLE FOR HIS, I GUESS, CRITIQUE...
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| 00:45:22 |
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PROBLEM WITH BILL COSBY'S CRITIQUE IS IT DIDN'T DO A LOT OF GOOD TO YELL AT PEOPLE, JUST YELLING YOU MUST DO BETTER. FINE. WHERE ARE THE TOOLS? WHERE...
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| 00:45:42 |
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ALMOST ENTIRELY WHITE
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| 00:45:44 |
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AND OLDER THAN THE AVERAGE DEMOGRAPHIC, AND DOES THAT MEAN THAT -- WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN REGARDS TO BLACK AMERICANS READING AND YOUNG AMERICAN...
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| 00:46:07 |
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HABITS, THOUGH. AFRICAN-AMERICANS, PARTICULARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN, ARE AVID READERS AND BOOK-BUYERS, AND THEY ARE A HUGELY SOUGHT-AFTER DEMOGRAPHIC...
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| 00:46:44 |
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WITH THAT, THE OLD SAYING, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING FROM BLACK PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO HIDE IT IN A BOOK. BUT WE WON'T
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| 00:46:55 |
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GET TO THAT TODAY. WITH THAT, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, THIS WAS A SPEED DATE, SO NEXT TIME WE HAVE TO HAVE HIM BACK, IT'S GOING TO BE A...
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| 00:47:13 |
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YOU. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] ... [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> THAT WAS PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING OTHER EUGENE ROBINSON DISCUSSING HIS NEW
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| 00:48:44 |
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BOOK "DISINTEGRATION: THE SPLINTERING OF BLACK AMERICA". BookTV IS BRINGING YOU LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2010 TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL. UP NEXT, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT,...
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