{"product_id":"never-forget-our-people-were-always-free-a-parable-of-american-healing-isbn-9780062961747","title":"Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post)\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America’s racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNever Forget Our People Were Always Free\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America’s broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous’ lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did racial profiling kill an American president?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy shouldn't the civil rights movement give up on rednecks?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen is what we have collectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e Told as a series of parables, \u003cem\u003eNever Forget Our People Were Always Free \u003c\/em\u003efeatures intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than anything, \u003cem\u003eNever Forget Our People Were Always Free \u003c\/em\u003eoffers readers hope America’s oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Ben Jealous appeals to our ‘better angels’ through storytelling that is riotously funny, deeply moving, and profoundly insightful. 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