Fuck That

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Fuck That is a raw, fictionalized memoir of mixed-race identity in white America. Told in a poetic, unfiltered voice, it follows Michael Smith, a man too Black for white spaces, too white for Black ones, who survives by code-switching, masking, and shrinking himself to fit. Raised by a white mother in a rural town, Michael learns early that safety means silence, and success means performance.As he grows, so does the cost of his compliance: in the classroom, in corporate boardrooms, in the quiet rooms where truth dies for the sake of comfort. When he's tapped to lead a company's diversity initiative, he realizes they don't want change, they want optics. They want his skin, not his voice.This is not a story of healing. It's not a lesson. It's a reckoning.For readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Austin Channing Brown, and those caught between identities, Fuck That refuses to translate or ask permission. It doesn't aim to inspire. It aims to speak plainly-and burn what needs to burn.

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Pages: 145, Hardcover, Brain vs Me Publishing