Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race--and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us
Written by Benjamin Watson
Narrated by J.D. Jackson
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and a widely read and followed commentator on social media, Watson has taken the Internet by storm with his remarkable insights about some of the most sensitive and charged topics of our day. Now, in Under Our Skin, Watson draws from his own life, his family legacy, and his role as a father to sensitively and honestly examine both sides of the race debate and appeal to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.
Benjamin Watson
Benjamin Watson Ben is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northwestern University. He earned his doctoral and Masters degrees at Georgia Tech's GVU Center, and his Bachelors degree at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation focused on user performance effects of dynamic level of detail management. His other research interests include object simplification, medical applications of virtual reality, and 3D user interfaces.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lots of good insight, my husband and I are white and he works for a police department as a dispatcher. God is good and it’s nice to hear this perspective and the Bible bits throughout.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I did not find this to be a great read, but I give it 5 stars because it is a valuable book. It is an important issue for me, a white person. He brings a gentle firmness to consider what he and other blacks (all?) have experienced. It would make a good discussion guide. He also brings the gospel in, stating that the underlying issue is our sin, and that there is a way out.