You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new; Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN; United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times; which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.†Or maybe from The New Yorker; fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial; gay; and women’s issues as inseparable."After all this love and praise; it’s time for the next step: a book. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous; well-informed take on the world today; tackling a wide range of issues; such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; left-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; white men; his up-bringing by very strong-willed; race-conscious; yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice; then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much; much more.
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