Real Conversations on Race
Malik paused. “Did it ever occur to you that people from my neighborhood are scared about rollin’ up on your neighborhood?” “Whatever,” Jim replied. “When’s the last time someone has had their head bashed in by some thugs in Stone Brook? When’s the last time someone had their car stolen at gunpoint when they were filling up their tank?” “Robbery and thugs ain’t the only things to fear. There are other things people like me gotta worry about. Stuff you wouldn’t understand.” Most people enter discussions of racial injustice like they’re entering a gun fight: heavily armed. Their weapons are statistics, experience, and a bevy of opinions and solutions. A new novel titled Meals from Mars: A Parable of Prejudice and Providence helps to de-escalate the conflict. Written by educator Ben Sciacca , this book will benefit not only his high school students in Fairfield, Alabama, but also suburbanites and those in between. Meals from Mars opens with guns drawn on the two protagonists, Jim and...