CAROL TAYLOR
BROWN SUGAR
WANDERLUST

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UNITED AS A PEOPLE

Dear Carol,

Hi my name is Leslie and I live on Long Island NY. I am an African American male who heard your interview on KISS FM and I have to commend you on your info regarding black men and women. I have always said to myself and others "STOP THE FIGHTING", all the sucking the teeth, the hands. The bragging: I’m a Lawyer, a Doctor etc. needs to stop and we need start looking at one another as people. You made some very good points about our problems within the race and gave some good solutions. THANK YOU!

Signed,

Leslie

Dear Leslie,

You’re welcome. I’m glad you caught the interview I gave about a year ago, on the Dahved Levy show promoting my book Brown Sugar. It was great fun and we got into really good discussions about relationships between black men and women and black people in general. We discussed how we often point fingers outside the race about discrimination and prejudice but we are the worst perpetrators of the bunch. If we want to be united as a people we must stop discriminating against each other based on color, class, background or the many other reasons too lengthy to go into here.

So, thank you! And pass it on.

Carol