So, Charles, you have said that you didn't want to write a, quote, race book.
Yes.
I assume that you would, however, consider this book a race book.
Well, the race books that I knew.
Were of specific genre.
Right?
So there was the race history.
I cannot write a race history book.
I am not a historian.
Even the historical portions of this book, I was pulling my hair out and thinking maybe I was getting something wrong and calling every historian, and I know it, making sure that I wasn't missing something, so I couldn't write that.
And then there were the synthesis of our racism and its deleterious effects books, and I certainly didn't want to write one of those.
And that's primarily where my dislike of the genre comes from, which is that I never really felt that those books were ever written for black people.
They were always explaining something that I already knew to someone else.
I assumed it was all to white people, and I wasn't interested in that.
So who's this book written for?
Black people.
How do you feel about white people reading it?
Oh, I love you.
Read it.
It's wonderful.