Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness / Michelle Alexander

Alexander shares how our black and brown men are being rounded up and placed in prisons for drug offenses that are not violent, often for long prison sentences. These criminal experiences and the resulting disruption in life, along with all that comes with having a criminal record - creates an underclass that not only hurts people of color but society in general.

The author believes that we need to listen to what Martin Luther King, Jr proposed - the end of a civil rights movement and the beginning of a human rights movement. 

Book Review: Things that Make White People Uncomfortable / Michael Bennett

Michael Bennett has a lot to say about using the athlete's voice to make this world a better, fairer, place for black people, women, and other oppressed minorities. This book is a bit of a curvy path - talking a lot about football, being a man, being human, forgiveness, the N***** word, and taking a stand by raising one's voice and through activism.

"Just because people don't eat what you eat, just because they're not from where you're from, just because they don't pray to the same god you pray to, just because they don't love who you love doesn't mean they should be treated like they are less than human."