Has impact 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Coleman wants to have a conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, whose influential books claim that racism pervades all of America and that every great American thinker has been complicit in it. He offered his own podcast as a platform for the conversation but is willing to have it in a setting of Kendi's choice. So far, no response. Many celebrities have taken that offer to talk, but not Kendi.

Multi-talented, Coleman was also trained as a jazz trombonist at Juilliard, a private performing arts school in New York. Even his musical talent is diverse. He did a rap under the name Coldxman called "Blasphemy," referring to criticism of his opinions:

"Charge me with thinking and put me in prison
Serving a sentence for sentences written
Shoulda known better than havin' opinions"

The point he would probably make to Kendi about our history of slavery and Jim Crow:

"There's a very big difference in learning about - understanding - history and becoming obsessed with it, or becoming personally attached to it in a way that places you in a position of victimhood that is not really yours to claim."

from Free Black Thought