I'm Joy Pullman, the executive editor at The Federalist.

Join me for another Federalist radio hour is Adam Coleman.

He is the founder of Wrongspeak Publishing and the author of both Black Victim to Black Victor

and the newly released book, The Children We Left Behind.

That second book is out this week and it's why I have Adam with us today. Adam,

welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. So there's a lot in this book

and I actually had to sometimes put it down reading it just because the emotional weight of it is

too difficult for me. And I was wondering about, I mean, well, why don't you just start with giving our listeners

you know come maybe whatever summary of kind of the life story that you're unfolding in this book

that you want to present to them as a starting point and then explain why you really needed to

share these you know sometimes dark and there's absolutely a lot of hope in the book, too.

You know, but this difficult kind of background that you have.

Yeah, I, the best way to kind of explain my childhood has been inconsistent and at times chaotic.

So, you know, I grew up with my mother and my sister. You know, I was born in Detroit. We left Detroit when I was, I think, around six or so. And we moved to Virginia. And then about a year later, we moved to New York, upstate New York.

So, like, we were moving a lot.

And actually, that's, like, the theme of much of my childhood and actually my adult life is moving a lot, not feeling a sense of home.

On top of that, you know, when I was younger, we were homeless twice for different reasons.

And yeah, all that for any child to experience while not having their father around,

to be unsure if you're loved, cared for, to have that person to rely on, even economically, emotionally, emotionally, all these different things.

You know, it's very clear in one of the particular chapters where I describe me having a mental breakdown and being

admitted into a mental hospital at the age of eight.

Very young, very young.

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