Something's Amiss in America

<p>Something's Amiss in America is a biographical story about how racist encounters affected the life of a Black male born and reared in a devout African American Christian home and environment. It takes the reader inside a world where expected matters of social interaction and norms are shattered by the realities of human intolerance and a sense of racial entitlement.</p><p></p><p>The author's life journey also reveals mitigating encounters with persons--Black and White--who exhibited God's grace and who enabled him to attain a successful and rewarding life.</p><p></p><p>Much like its symbolic Liberty Bell the author finds something amiss in America's framework. It is the crack of hubris-inspired racism perpetrated by ungenerous personalities that threatens the nation's egalitarian ideals.</p><p></p><p>In that context the author believes grace is a key to fulfilling the nation's motto as inscribed on its Great Seal of the United States: E pluribus unum.</p>