Wow, Jonah. This is an amazing piece on many levels. I’d like to link to it in my next newsletter as a follow-up to the last newsletter with the “Seniors Speak” theme.

What you’ve said is important on many levels but two seem particularly significant to me.

1. You said it yourself about yourself.
2. You took on the issue of latent racism at a time in our country’s history when many formerly latent racists now have permission to be overt racists.

And yet, not a pol or a pundit has discussed this issue with the same candor and intellectual honesty that you have here.

And I wonder why???????

What is it about you and your experience of life that has developed not just into a talent for self-analysis but also a willingness to share it publicly — and in this case globally — through writing?

This is a question I need to have at least one answer to because it’s the main reason I wrote my book: I want young adults to find their voices and their sense of agency through expressions of the written word.

I realize mow that to do this well that I need the help of a few young adults like you to understand how this talent for self-reflection and commitment to intellectual honesty arises.

Thanks,

Steve