Throughout the book, the ESPN analyst charts his life and career against a backdrop of poverty and inequality, of discrimination and blatant racism.
From the Jim Crow laws through to the Great Migration and the civil rights movement that shaped his upbringing, he highlights the perpetual struggle of black men in America, from slavery right through to the present day. “For many readers, Beaumont, Texas, of the 1930s and 1940s might seem like ancient history, but to me it might as well be yesterday,” he writes. “For eighteen years, I saw this history etched into my grandparents’ faces. I saw the effects of it around me. I still do.
Bowling for a cause: In 2014, at his annual Why Not Foundation fundraiser to benefit the Boys and Girls Club in Edmond, Oklahoma.For Perkins, the memory of his mother continues to spur him on — and it still hurts. After one game in 2007, he was driving with his wife Vanity when he thought how special it would have been to share his “absolutely blessed life” with his late mother. “The yearning I had was so intense I thought it might split me open.
“Before I knew it, I was crying like I’d never done before. Decades of living with the tragedy of her death came pouring out of me as Vanity sat beside me, holding me, keeping me steady.
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