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Truth & Absurdities is a starburst collection of my reminiscences, essays, opinions, analysis, sketches and ponderings, of my and my family’s lives as we react to the onslaught of events shaped by past American history. I say starburst because there is no chronology to the ideas set forth in these biographical snapshots. My responds and my family’s responses are relevant to all black families and indeed, many white family’s responses to the synthetic obstructions they erect to prevent our unity and progress. I could have named the book absurdities; that is where I want the focus to go. This book is to underline, make a contrast with, and mock the crazy things some people say and do. An absurdity is a thing that is so extremely unreasonable, as to be foolish and should not taken seriously, Absurdity derives from the Latin absurdum meaning "out of tune", therefore irrational. Absurdity is the opposite of seriousness. Absurdity may be synonymous with ridiculousness and nonsense. Absurdity is also related to extremes in bad reasoning or pointlessness in reasoning; ridiculousness is related to extremes of incompatible comparison, laughter, and ridicule; and nonsense is related to a lack of meaningfulness. Truth & Absurdities is a denunciation of the irrationalities that has befallen (enough) white people since the election of Barack Obama as president. In this book I use my own brand of mockery to unmask the malaise of embellished malarkey poisoning much of Middle America. So Truth & Absurdities is two books. Book one is about how we’ve dealt with the bullshit and the other book is about the source of the bullshit. If you have a question about how the book came about, the answer is organically. Truth & Absurdities is an organic collection of my reflections. Writing that appeared over time in a variety of publications and my blog by the same name – Truth & Absurdities for the on-line site Blogcritic. I once thought of it as my last book and it would have been a befitting last book; it paints a picture of me I find accurate. And it says that I had to say.