Don Lemon on ‘This Is the Fire’ and James Baldwin’s Influence

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Larry weighs in on the Atlanta spa shooting and the recent rise of hate targeted toward Asian people (03:00). Later, Larry is joined by CNN’s Don Lemon to discuss his new book ‘This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism’ (10:00), growing up down south in Baton Rouge as a gay black man (18:00), James Baldwin’s impact on his life (13:00) and more. Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Don Lemon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Head into the Ringiverse to stay up to date with all things superheroes and nerd culture entertainment.
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0:23.0	Hey everybody, welcome back. This is Larry Wong or you're listening to Black on the Air or Welcome from First Time.
0:36.0	We have Mr. Don Lemon of CNN fame. I joked about it, the White House court's funds dinner many years ago.
0:46.0	He was a good sport about that. I think I called him alleged black journalist on lemon, something like that.
0:53.0	He's a good sport about he's got a book out called This is the Fire.
0:58.0	What I see to my friends about racism, he was very much motivated by the George Floyd protests and what was happening last year with the protest and everything to write about it.
1:08.0	He was right about that and racism and his relationship to it and some of his life, a little bit of everything in there.
1:16.0	So I'm talking to Dunn about all of that stuff coming up. We had a good conversation a little earlier.
1:23.0	And I think you guys will enjoy it. There's a lot in there. It's a type of conversation.
1:28.0	Unfortunately, you could just talk about it for a while because you can't really cover everything. I think the way you would like those type of conversations.
1:39.0	But I'm hoping we can have more of those conversations more and more in the future. And by conversations, I'm a person that really wants to have conversations with people not monologues.
1:53.0	Not so little queues. You know, there needs to be some back and forth, especially these days.
1:59.0	I'm not into the.
2:03.0	How can I put this? I think you know what it is. There's a lot of social justice going on right now where, whoo, man, it gets to me.
2:11.0	And this is my opinion. It falls into a little bit of the preachy area.
2:15.0	Preachy instead of teaching. Let's just say. So I think we have to be careful of that.
2:21.0	There's a way to speak the truth and being authentic and keep it in a hundred with it.
2:27.0	But people are people. People take things the way they're going to take it.
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