Amber Cole
ASIN: B00LLHWPR2
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 16
Yes, a provocative title in the midst of a world seemingly gone mad lately.A white guy named John Derbyshire gets fired from the National Review for advising whites to stay away from large groups of black people, and I can't get his honestly laid bare (if not shocking) words out of my head.Heavily armed Neo-Nazis may or may not be patrolling Sanford, Florida, depending on what news outlet you read.The racial tension feels as taut as the inner tube on my mountain bike that I filled this morning before heading out for my nine-mile trek through Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio, past a microcosm of white folks - my own private focus group of interaction with Caucasians.It's under those beautiful heavens this Easter Monday that the title and theme of this piece was borne - me, a 42-year-old African American woman noting the advice I'd give any other black person on how to get along with ...