How to pronounce “baratunde thurston” in English

Baratunde Thurston: Happy black history month.

Baratunde Thurston: All people, but especially, especially us.

Baratunde Thurston: It’s, uh, it’s good to be here at the Googleplex.

Baratunde Thurston: And I was, are you experimenting on the human genome?

Baratunde Thurston: Tell my family I love them, very much.

Baratunde Thurston: If you see something else you should get yourself checked out cause you have issues.

Baratunde Thurston: And so what that means is, first of all Twilight is a terrible, terrible thing.

Baratunde Thurston: I kinda feel like that teacher that wants to reach one student, you know if you could just change one life.

Baratunde Thurston: And that’s just true, it’s not like a thing, it’s not a hook, it’s not a scam.

Baratunde Thurston: I highly recommend it.

Baratunde Thurston: So she sent, our grandmother sent our mother off to Boarding School at age 8.

Baratunde Thurston: But my mother had some tough times at this school.

Baratunde Thurston: “I am mad at you.

Baratunde Thurston: You gotta protect the nation from little black girls that want dolls and cookies.

Baratunde Thurston: This is a dude name El Dorado.

Baratunde Thurston: Like the car.

Baratunde Thurston: And there are many people in this world who, uh, who think they’re cool.

Baratunde Thurston: Look at the shoes, look at the phone; look at the typewriter, the pants, the hair, everything about this picture is cool.

Baratunde Thurston: Cause the revolution may not be televised but it could be photographed.

Baratunde Thurston: Now, when I was born, my mother did not leave these politics behind, she very much infused them with me.

Baratunde Thurston: Called This is Apartheid.

Baratunde Thurston: I had another book called Africa is Not a Country, it’s a Continent.

Baratunde Thurston: It maybe has a little effect on you as a young person whose mind is being molded.

Baratunde Thurston: But otherwise it was very similar to the Wire.

Baratunde Thurston: We’re just, this is the black history month.

Baratunde Thurston: This is ridiculous.

Baratunde Thurston: Interrupt me in March and I will not complain.

Baratunde Thurston: Anyway, I was talking about my ignorant wine purchasing decisions.

Baratunde Thurston: So I saw this brand of wine called Negroamaro, I was like, that spoke to me, “Negro wine!

Baratunde Thurston: People are like, “How black are you?

Baratunde Thurston: “Tell us how to do it!

Baratunde Thurston: Pick a fight with someone your own ignorance.

Baratunde Thurston: So the book has stories like that.

Baratunde Thurston: And so there’s, you know, some, some guidelines for the next black president.

Baratunde Thurston: She had all this stuff.

Baratunde Thurston: So Demali, she’s gotta be in the book, gotta be in the book.

Baratunde Thurston: Yeah, can we clap for them?

Baratunde Thurston: But um, he has a great one man show called The W. Kamau Bell Curve, which is a playoff of the Bell Curve book

Baratunde Thurston: Just couldn’t let us have it, right?

Baratunde Thurston: And so I picked the whitest guy I could find, who’s Christian Lander, who is the author of Stuff White People

Baratunde Thurston: Oh, I should press play.

Baratunde Thurston: So that’s some of, you know what people have to say in the book.

Baratunde Thurston: Uh, so I wanna talk about that process.

Baratunde Thurston: And I was like, “Maybe I should listen to this dude.

Baratunde Thurston: But as I wrote those words I convinced myself otherwise and decided to give it a shot.

Baratunde Thurston: Because you’re gonna have that happen.

Baratunde Thurston: The answer is very.

Baratunde Thurston: Uh, I have a lot of self-love.

Baratunde Thurston: Somebody else is writing this book.