A letter to a teenage son, of the father's lived experience of growing up to recognize the complex ways that black bodies are valued less to not at all in a world of and for "people who believe they are white". Personal, compelling, and short, definitely reminiscent of Baldwin but more focused on the pain of black loss than the need for white disavowal of our ongoing racist privilege, though that too is in this book's message.

Audiobook read by the author.