Journalist • Author • Speaker  

Ron Alexander
Amazon Best Selling Author

 

I used to think being born a Black man in America was my worst nightmare. For seven decades, dating back to the 1950s, I've experienced social changes that shaped our country's future and my identity. I've endured years of racial slurs and insults, discrimination, and police brutality. From pre and post-segregation, the political and social impact of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Huey Newton's Black Panther Party, I've lived in fear of being lynched, beaten, or shot to death by white supremacists or white police officers. Nothing, however—not even encounters with racism—prepared me for twenty years of drug addiction. Addiction and mental illness struck within me. Racism attacked from outside of me.