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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Ibram X. Kendi (Extended Cut)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Watching Sen. Ted Cruz criticize one of his books during the confirmation hearing for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not deter author Ibram X. Kendi from pursuing his mission to encourage all Americans, especially children, to learn how to be antiracist. Check out Kendi’s two latest books, “Goodnight Racism” and “How to Raise an Antiracist,” available everywhere now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.2

It's the Rachel Pancho with Stephen Colberg.

0:22.9

Hey, John, and my next guest tonight is Anne historian and leading anti-racist scholar.

0:29.3

He just certain two new books, How to Raise an Anti-racist and Good Night Racism.

0:34.1

Please welcome back to the lay show, Ibram X Candy!

0:43.7

First time we've seen each other in person, because the last time we talked was the height of COVID,

0:48.4

and it was almost two years ago this week, June 25th, 2020, and we were talking about

0:56.1

how to be an anti-racist at the time, your book at the time, and also about the ongoing

1:00.4

protests in the street following the death of George Floyd.

1:02.8

So, I want to get into how you see the United States and how you see the progress two years

1:07.2

later, but first I want to talk about your new books. Here we go. This is a book for an adult

1:12.5

called How to Raise an Anti-racist and a book for children called Good Night Racism.

1:26.4

Now, the nice thing is that the audio book of the children's book here is actually

1:38.3

read by your daughter. What's that like? For what's that like to listen to your daughter

1:51.6

reading your work? It was just unspeakable. I mean, it was incredible, I think, especially because

1:59.9

she had been actually doing speech therapy. Oh, really? And so, to see her and to see your

2:06.4

confidence and see how proud of herself that she was, I mean, it was just, I mean, it was nothing

2:12.8

like it. Now, it almost didn't happen because her grandparents negotiated hard for her.

2:18.1

Oh, she has representation. Oh, you know, she definitely has representation.

2:21.0

Anything in her writer, like no red M&Ms or something like that? So, I literally have to put

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