Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious

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legacy pm. Investments.com. Today, this is a subject we talk a lot about on sideline sanity.

Let me read you a quote from this book that we're going to talk about.

There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles,

the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles,

they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their

wrongs, partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they don't want

to lose their jobs.

That's a quote from Booker T. Washington, my larger education, 1911, thus the use of the term

Negroes, but we could replace that with black, African American, people of color, whatever

you want the term to be in any era, and it would be the same.

This has been going on for ages.

And we have an interesting guest today who in a very mild-mannered way is going to tell you why he

isn't buying into the narrative and how he has learned to go from black victim to black victor. It's a really important

topic in this day and age where we're hearing that math is racist, that tests shouldn't be taken

because they are culturally, you know, weighted toward one group of people or another, that you're

either oppressed or you're

the oppressor, that you have white fragility and white privilege and every other kind of

race-related infirmity that you could have, for lack of a better term. Adam B. Coleman is our

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