i can read maxine hahn chinese girl coming of age, that inspires me part of the power of art is to leters into the story, thing that's statistics, policy and law can't often do. even though i talk in that language as well. this is not a young adult novel i hope people of all ages to read it. i want especially young men in thirteens and 20s to see their story. there's a way to reach people by sharing their story in this novel. i have a good man in his 30s said for the first time he saw his face on the cover of a book. just the optics, this is my story. it's an idea. story telling. there's a way to tell a story and novel that is not possible when writing a political essay. >> i will come back to the black boys in a second let me start with the good white folk first. tell me why you think they will read a book and get a reality from a fiction text when many of them don't seem to get it when it's in their face live and in living color on the network news every night. >> i think that this is a country that only exists because of the objectfiction enslavement and continual persecution of bla