“This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism” by Don Lemon … His Experiences As a Minority Several Timesc.2021, Little, Brown — $28.00 / $35.00 Canada — 224 pagesBy: Terri Schlichenmeyer*/Special to TRT—This really makes your blood boil.This.
The racism gone amok, discrimination, the protests that don’t seem to work, nobody’s listening. You’re hot under the collar over it all, totally inflamed, ready for real action, and in “This Is the Fire” by Don Lemon, you’ll find some sometimes-warm, sometimes-scorching thoughts to sit with first.Coincidentally or not, as a trial begins soon in Minnesota, this book opens with a poignant letter from Lemon to his young nephew on the evening of George Floyd’s death.