J.P. Hollywood, right, Tyglin and John, a friend saw my copy of woke racism. He said he's read

some of John's articles. And against my better judgment, we entered into an extensive and at times

heated conversation on the topic of race and racism in America. My friend would declare himself a

man of the progressive left and I'm center right. Whenever I spoke of the objective facts, for example,

there are 10 to 20 unarmed black men killed each year by police versus his guess of over a thousand.

I was told repeatedly, quote, you need to speak to more black people on their actual experiences.

Close quote. I said I'd take it under consideration, but I told him I wouldn't engage on the topic

again with him until he did the work on studying the facts. Listening to such stories could add a very

human touch to a difficult topic. However, I'm sorry, let me repeat, listening to such stories could

add a very human touch to a difficult topic. However, I actually don't see the point of either

being lectured to or listening to discrete personal experience of racism, which I don't,

nor should anyone deny exists. While I think I'm better off not engaging again with this friend,

do you think there's value in listening to people's individual encounters of racism? No.

Yeah, I thought that was what you're going to say. And I think that's a really good question, don't

you? I mean, that is, yeah. And here's where I'm not holding. I'm not holding back. This is my

plan for honest me. No, because unfortunately, the nature of the culture is such that for great

many people, when you ask them that question, they're going to exaggerate. It's a very sad tendency

I've seen all my life. Well, they're going to pick some one thing that happened to them in

their 45 years with the implication that that's all of life. That tendency is too strong,

it's understandable, but that means that if you're looking for an objective sense of what's really

going on, you can't do that. Now, there are plenty of black people who don't do that, of course,

and I don't have any numbers, but especially, you know, once you're dealing with educated people,

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