I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellas Podcast.

Today we have none other than Boyafar.

What's going on, my brother, how are you?

I'm doing wonderful. How are you? Thank you for having me.

I'm doing good. I'm gonna hit you with the question that we normally ask our guests during

their first time visiting the show and I anticipate you'll be here more often. But talk us and

walk us through the arc of your career. Talk about your career informative experiences that

led you to write this book, first let me a black man appreciate you know, Bakara means hopeful and promising. So I'm you know I'm excited to be here.

Well I came to this country in 1993 as a teenager and and coming here I absolutely thought

America was I was I was coming from Somalia, a civil war,

deprivation diseases, refugee camps, and America to me was heaven.

I really wanted to get here. And you know, so I carry so much love to come to America, you know, and I for a city that I went to called Bedford, it's a it's all white town. It's beautiful. It's got a lot of greenery. So my first

introduction to America, the love that I carry, actually matched. And I didn't really

become an American until I started actually working.

You don't really assimilate or you really become an American until you actually

begin working and so that's when I America showed me a different itself.

I mean, they're completely different.

Basically, as soon as I get a job, first I really had,

I had so many interactions with the police so many different interactions with white America

But I dismissed it because you know the love that I care for America was bigger and but as soon as I get a job, that's actually when I begin to know that I'm a black man living in America.

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