October 1999
Beginner
336 pages
12h 25m
English
On June 7, 1998, in Jasper, Texas, three white supremacists captured an African American man, beat him, and then dragged him to his death on the back of a pickup truck in a ghastly and horrid display of racial hatred and violence.
At a company party at the Bell Atlantic Corporation, Willie Bennett, an African American 27-year veteran of the company, was shocked when his white coworkers showed him a video they made, in which a white coworker wearing an Afro wig pretended to be Bennett and portrayed him getting his job because of his basketball-playing skills. Derrick Williams, a 23-year veteran of Bell Atlantic, is haunted by the memory of finding a fake and crudely racist job application ...
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