Kiese Laymon on book bans, white supremacy and the US South | Censorship

The perfect-selling creator of Heavy: An American Memoir talks to Marc Lamont Hill in regards to the components that form Black id.

“We’ve at all times executed direct motion, and that direct motion was predicated on doing what the state didn’t need us to do, which is to look again with accuracy, with acuity, after which make a direct motion based mostly on what we really see,” Kiese Laymon says of Black communities within the Deep South of the USA.

“It’s onerous to try this. It’s onerous to try this now with the nation, politicians, social media, and all the things, convincing us that, that which we noticed and know, we don’t see or know,” the best-selling creator says of the current efforts by politicians and teams to ban a whole lot of e book titles, most of them to do with the experiences of racial minorities and LGBTQ folks.

On UpFront, creator, professor of English and inventive writing at Rice College, and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Kiese Laymon, joins Marc Lamont Hill to debate Black id and systemic racism within the American South.