WiW283. Black Victim to Black Victor - Adam Coleman

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Adam Coleman sits down with Bridget to discuss his book Black Victim to Black Victor: Identifying the ideologies, behavioral patterns and cultural norms that encourage a victimhood complex. They talk about what motivated him to write and self-publish the book, how its success took him by surprise, how growing up without a father impacted him, the effect of not having a dad on young men, what fathers need to teach their sons, how his own son helped him realize what he had missed out on, how certain corners of the internet view competent men, the holes in right wing male ideology, and how there’s no path to redemption in the extreme forms of our political discourse. They cover the importance of resisting nihilism, the "body count" topic, why there should be more discussion around the male responsibility in the choice to have a child, his experience raising his son, why conservatives don't reach out the the black community, the upcoming election, how being super online distorts your perception of reality, why it’s good to be wrong every so often, identifying the hills you'll die on, if a return to normalcy is possible, and why employing victimhood narratives are dangerous because then people just wait for a savior. Sponsor Links: The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - https://bit.ly/WiW-AdamDrDrew PlutoTV - https://bit.ly/WiWPlutoTV

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0:00.0	You wrote a book that I find fascinating and I think is really great called Black Victim to Black Victor.
0:07.8	How is it going?
0:10.1	Great. I mean.
0:11.8	Being a black victim.
0:13.2	Well, in regards to the book, I had no expectations.
0:20.8	You self published it, right? Yeah, I self-published it. I didn't have a public presence as well and all I wanted to do is just write a book.
0:32.6	And obviously I wanted people to read it.
0:34.7	So I just tried to market it.
0:36.0	And it just turned into something much bigger
0:39.8	than I ever anticipated.
0:42.0	So quite literally, I was like like as long as my friends of family
0:45.3	buy it and maybe 10 other people I would have been fine but it's been much more than
0:49.8	that. That's amazing and what inspired you to write the book?
0:55.0	Nothing necessarily good. 2020.
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	Especially the reaction to George Floyd and that was kind of that in combination with COVID. It was like the first
1:06.9	time in my life where it felt like you weren't allowed to ask pertinent questions about major things that were happening in society or major narratives that were happening.
1:17.0	So, you know, I'm a pretty private person in general, especially back then.
1:22.0	I didn't really use social media. I just kept all my thoughts to myself, but it's a lot different choosing to keep your thoughts to yourself and being told you have to keep your thoughts to yourself.
1:33.0	And that made me want to find a way to express myself.
1:38.0	I initially started going on free speech forums and they actually encouraged me to write more and I like a year prior I had an idea of writing a book as like a legacy thing for my son but I just didn't know what to write about and it just kind of all came together. It took me about nine months from start to finish.
1:58.4	I actually rewrote much of the book about three or four months in because my writing style improved and the
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