Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES. BESTSELLERAn urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series. ". Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man". "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have. " So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. "There is a fix," Acho says. "But in order to access it, we're going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations. "In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man. , Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask-yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and "reverse racism. " In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader's curiosity-but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight.