What do you say to black americans who may be skeptical about you and your book and just explosive cover . I give them my back story. I was born on a cotton plantation, my father was a sharecropper. Picking cotton. He bought us out of the plantation in tennessee. And he was so thankful that god had given us a middleclass life that we started a gospel team group, went around the south singing gospel music around the south. I went to College University of michigan and started working in a prison in South Carolina, five years and i saw the belly of the beast and i saw evil. I was supposed to supervise 127 hardcore felons every day and i was most of the time by myself so i had to understand evil and i saw a lot of young black men, the clinton crime bill, started asking black intelligentsia why does a black man get backed up like this, in 1990 they had 40 on that case. They told me it was a bunch of rich white republicans who hated black people so i left my post working in the ghettos and i