Your best friend dead at your feet ... a smoking gun held by the crooked cop who shot him in your face ... your girl pleading
in your ear to think twice about the rage boiling your blood ... your teacher's voice reminding you, that you have the heart of
a civil rights leader, while your fists remember you’re a street fighter.
These are the choices that find Sean Taylor, college freshman full of dreams but also chocked with rage when it comes to
injustice and racism.
From his daily, up close point of view we see how racism and ignorance dig even into the world of academia, where for Sean
the hardest tests aren't in the classroom- but on the streets. As a white student with deep friendships among various races,
Sean finds himself constantly in umbrage over racial tensions, on and off campus, that trigger his reactionary fist. Along the
way he learns from his Black Studies teacher and the new love of his life, that his brawls are leading to his failure. This
proves true when Sean’s best friend is murdered and any lessons he’s learned up until that point are put to the ultimate test.
A barrage of racially intense incidents throughout the news, and reactionary youth protests springing up from Louisiana to
the streets of Paris, led to writing this novel. I wanted to deliver a riveting drama that shows one young man’s coming of age,
as he learns about life’s injustices and how to handle them.
NOW AVAILABLE HERE:
Lesson Learned
in your ear to think twice about the rage boiling your blood ... your teacher's voice reminding you, that you have the heart of
a civil rights leader, while your fists remember you’re a street fighter.
These are the choices that find Sean Taylor, college freshman full of dreams but also chocked with rage when it comes to
injustice and racism.
From his daily, up close point of view we see how racism and ignorance dig even into the world of academia, where for Sean
the hardest tests aren't in the classroom- but on the streets. As a white student with deep friendships among various races,
Sean finds himself constantly in umbrage over racial tensions, on and off campus, that trigger his reactionary fist. Along the
way he learns from his Black Studies teacher and the new love of his life, that his brawls are leading to his failure. This
proves true when Sean’s best friend is murdered and any lessons he’s learned up until that point are put to the ultimate test.
A barrage of racially intense incidents throughout the news, and reactionary youth protests springing up from Louisiana to
the streets of Paris, led to writing this novel. I wanted to deliver a riveting drama that shows one young man’s coming of age,
as he learns about life’s injustices and how to handle them.
NOW AVAILABLE HERE:
Lesson Learned
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