Mosley's book interweaves a memoir of his father with his own modest
efforts to plot out an activist program for promoting world peace.
Mosley addresses his book to black Americans, and it's interesting
to think of the post-9/11 antiterrorism regime refracted through the
prism of the negro experience in America. For one thing, Mosley
points out that his father didn't realize that he was an American
until he found himself being shot at by Germans in WWII; but given
that he had in fact been shot at just like white Americans were
shot at, he came to realize that he ought to have rights just like
all other Americans, and that realization changed his life.
Mosley's book interweaves a memoir of his father with his own modest
efforts to plot out an activist program for promoting world peace.
Mosley addresses his book to black Americans, and it's interesting
to think of the post-9/11 antiterrorism regime refracted through the
prism of the negro experience in America. For one thing, Mosley
points out that his father didn't realize that he was an American
until he found himself being shot at by Germans in WWII; but given
that he had in fact been shot at just like white Americans were
shot at, he came to realize that he ought to have rights just like
all other Americans, and that realization changed his life.