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Hello and welcome to another special bonus episode of the new abnormal. And we thank you so much

for being here. Today we have an extra special guest with Keith Boykin, the author of Race Against Time,

the Politics of a Darkening America. Welcome to the new abnormal, Keith. Thank you. Thank you for

having me. We're so happy to have you. So talk to me about this book. The book is called Race Against

Time, the Politics of a Darkening America. And the title is a reflection of the fact that we are

literally living at a point where we are people in a race against time to stop the changing of

America, the staff blackening and browning of America in particular. It's a book that is a

reflection of where we are as a country right now and have divided we have been as a country,

especially for the past five years. And it starts in 2020 on the very first second of 2020.

I find myself in a former women's prison in Mexico City. And that was sort of the unexpected

beginning point for the story that I tell in the book. And I didn't know exactly how to interpret

that at the time, but in hindsight it appeared to have been an old man that warned me that I would

soon find myself in jail. And by the middle of 2020 a few days after George Floyd was murdered,

I was covering a protest in New York City and found myself locked up arrested by the NYPD and

placed in jail for six hours simply for doing my job covering a protest. And I think another

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