Episode · EconTalk · 2024-06-03
Books mentioned on Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)
When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was when he read Martin Luther King Jr.
Dwayne Betts discussed I Have a Dream by Rachid Ba and Letter from Birmingham Jail by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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I Have a Dream
Discussed“and the first book was I have a dream and it was the introduction was written um by King's children and and it's cool the book is actually paginated and laid out as king spoke so you could actually read it and kind of embody his voice almost almost like a poem”
Where to get it
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Discussed“and they said yeah letter from a Birmingham Jail and I said what kind of fool am I and and I said wait a minute let me ask you something because they had people writing introductions I said is anybody WR the introduction for that one CU I should I should write that one”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Anarchy, State, and Utopia
“although I am more of a nosic guy than a Rolls guy I have to confess and I wor I suspect nok's not in the library but that's a separate question that's a separate question Anarchy state in Utopia”
Passing Slavery By Another Name
“I had read the the books about mass incarceration I had read worse than slavery slavery by another name I read these things”
Passing Worse Than Slavery
“I had read the the books about mass incarceration I had read worse than slavery slavery by another name I read these things”