Are talking about them you did a good job laying everything out through these different essays. You dedicated the book for teeth the. That is my sister, my older sister and one of the people, the original troublemaker. I wanted to be sure i acknowledged her and one of the people we always talk about in terms of when she and i go back and forth over the years talking about different subjects and all the books i have done i thought this was the most appropriate for her. Talk about your overall goal in the book. The goal was to reach an acknowledgment, to try to sort out where we were as a country and as a person. After my last book, the heritage, that you helped me on, enjoyed talking about where black athletes were in the culture and the black political athletes. The combination of ferguson, militarism, trey von and the 2016 election. As much as it made us think about what was going on in sports it brought me back to thinking about where i was as a person. How this election took its cou
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