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Dad it's not bad if the book is out there so I want to buy it and read it that's fine with me. But I kind of wanted to talk about my own life I mean EASY IS LIFE IS an interesting thing IIS NE's is life. He knew what was going to be behind every door he opened. You know if there's a door in Beverly Hills he knows what's coming behind that door he knows he's going to be treated every once in while he's surprised but it's rare and it's a surprise as my Sheetz him differently if he goes to a restaurant Yeah everybody's going to stop and everybody's going to ask him questions everybody's going to ask him why he's here if he's among black people. Everybody's going to have a certain notion of who they are and what they are and where they live and who their enemies are etc.. And the reason I wrote those books is because a lot of people outside of the community didn't know those things and didn't know the people who lived those lives so I decided to write those stories you know to talk about his life however Leonid McGill. As much more about my life. Every door he opens is different. Every place he goes. Something else is happening. Some people like him. Some people don't like him. Some people don't like him because he's short and middle class or working class and kind of tough because he has scarred hands some

people don't like him because he's black Some people don't like him because he's a man some people don't like him because of his age. People like him for things that you can never tell in the in the in the recent book one woman loves him because he has really big strong hands and those hands they just she's can't get her eyes off them. You know that's her own thing going on but it's there's a world of all different kinds of possibility so much more in many ways complex world than the world of Easy Rawlins though it's a world I would rather live in now. So what I'm going to do is I was trying to read later in a book and I'm. And whenever I'm reading mysteries it's impossible because everything is based on the beginning and so you know I was reading chapters I said but nobody will understand that unless I write read the previous chapter and I go back oh they want to extend that so I ended up on chapter one again. So I'm going to do you know read short as I always do the first couple of chapters and and then you know we can talk about things you know like. Is this indeed post-racial America or maybe like Medha racial. I try to come up with a new

term. You know Metta racial anyway. So I read a little bit of this book see if you like.