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Take as little offense as possible, but....the author of this book visited my college last year and it was almost weeks after a mob of African-American teens beat up a young Caucasian couple close to campus. Looking a videos and testimony, it looked like it was race related. Both went to the hospital. Someone in the crowd asked him a question about why things like that happen near our campus...and he just danced around the question. I almost couldn't believe it. This book is the REASON why things like that happen. One thing is not learning about mistakes made in American history regarding racial relations, but it a totally different story when the writer just complains and says race is a trap the whole book. Call it art, call it emotion, whatever. But to be very honest, the author's life (other than living in the hood during childhood) wasn't even that hard. He even had a decent education lined up before he dropped out of college. The hardest thing he did was pick up a pen. He only supplies a slightly unique writing style. This book is very negative and doesn't help the cause for equality at all. My advice would be to give solutions, instead of writing lovely lines about how mediocre his life was because of race and how racist America is. A wound is healed by bonding the two edges together, not digging it deeper yelling "never forget". Perpetuating hate is not brave or admirable, but I guess it just sells books.