I Take My Coffee Black I Take My Coffee Black

I Take My Coffee Black

    • 4.3 • 73 Ratings
    • $19.99

    • $19.99

Publisher Description

In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy.
Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's main point—the more you know someone, the more empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that person—is the springboard for this book. By sharing his highs and exposing his lows, Tyler welcomes us into his world in order to help bridge the divides that seem to grow wider every day.

In I Take My Coffee Black, Tyler tells hilarious stories from his own life as a black man in America. He talks about growing up in a multi-cultural community and realizing that he wasn't always welcome, how he quit sports for musical theater (that's where the girls were) to how Jesus barged in uninvited and changed his life forever (it all started with a Triple F.A.T. Goose jacket) to how he ended up at a small Bible college in Santa Cruz because he thought they had a great theater program (they didn't). Throughout his stories, he also seamlessly weaves in lessons about privilege, the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and why you don't cross black mamas. He teaches readers about the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our society today.

By turns witty, insightful, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and entertains—ultimately building the kind of empathy that might just be the antidote against the racial injustice in our society.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
JK
Jimmy Kimmel
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:04
hr min
RELEASED
2021
September 14
PUBLISHER
Hachette Audio
SIZE
484.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Jenny Hix ,

I Take My Coffee Black

This book changed my perspective! Thank you, Tyler! Thank you, for talking about hard things. Thank you for making me see truth in a new light!
The world needs to listen!

JAllen98765 ,

Real, Raw & Hysterical!

It only took me 3 days to get through this audiobook! It was eye opening & thought provoking & I needed all of it. Thank you Tyler for taking us to church & sharing your story ❤️

MaiCach ,

Horrible book.

Who writes like this? A child? What a horrible boring story.

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