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092    BIO|bMERRITT 
100 1  Merritt, Tyler,|eauthor. 
245 10 I take my coffee black :|breflections on Tupac, musical 
       theater, faith, and being black in America /|cTyler 
       Merritt with David Tieche ; foreword by Jimmy Kimmel. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bWorthy Publishing,|c2021. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    xi, 306 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes discussion questions. 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 00 |tIf She Only Knew (Part 1) --|tLas Vegas Is a Terrible 
       Place to Raise a Racist --|tDeath by Gang?: Or Death by My
       Mother? --|tBoy, Go Hit a Home Run Right Now --|tI Got 99 
       Problems and Pretty Much All of Them Are Women --|tMormons
       and Gangsters and Thespians. Oh My! --|tI Was Doing 
       Perfectly Fine and Dammit, Here Comes Jesus, aka Summer 
       Camp in Vegas Is No Place for a Goose Down Jacket --|tI'm 
       Supposed to Do What? --|tI'm Gonna Learn How to Fly (Part 
       1) --|tI'm Gonna Learn How to Fly (Part 2) --|tThe Gospel 
       According to Jonathan Larson --|tYou Give Love a Bad Name 
       --|tAugust, Broken Frame, and Everything After --|tThere's
       No Place Like Home --|tThe Bench --|tThe Tyler Merritt 
       Project --|tNever Gonna Be President Now, aka My Husband 
       Found Your Pictures --|tIf She Only Knew (Part 2). 
520    "As a six-foot-two, dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt 
       knows that getting too close to the wrong person can get 
       him killed. But he also believes that proximity can be a 
       cure for racism. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call 
       the Cops" has been viewed more than 59 million times. He's
       appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has 
       been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's 
       main point--that the more you know someone, the more 
       empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that 
       person--is the springboard for this book, which lets us 
       deeply into Tyler's life and his world to help bridge the 
       divides that seem to grow wider every day. In I Take My 
       Coffee Black, Tyler tells hilarious stories from his own 
       life as a black man in America. He talks about growing up 
       in a multi-cultural community and realizing that he wasn't
       always welcome. He shares how he quit sports for musical 
       theater (that's where the girls were), to how Jesus barged
       in uninvited and changed his life forever (it all revolved
       around a Triple Fat Goose jacket), to how he ended up at a
       small Bible college in Santa Cruz because he thought they 
       had a great theater program (they didn't). Throughout his 
       stories, he also seamlessly weaves in lessons about 
       privilege and the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and
       why you don't cross black mamas, teaching readers about 
       the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our 
       society today. By turns witty, insightful, and laugh-out-
       loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of 
       black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and 
       entertains--and, ultimately, builds the kind of empathy 
       that might just be the antidote against the racial 
       injustice in our society."--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Merritt, Tyler. 
650  0 African American actors|vBiography. 
650  0 Actors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
700 1  Tieche, David,|eauthor. 
700 1  Kimmel, Jimmy,|d1967-|eauthor of foreword.