Under Our Skin

Getting Real About Race - and Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us

By: Benjamin Watson

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide - in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider - is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand each other on issues that are ultimately about so much more than Black and White?

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.

©2015 Benjamin Watson (P)2015 Tantor

Thank you

Have followed Benjamin Watson in social media for awhile... thankful that he shared his story and praying for peace and justice in our nation.

Great Perspective

When Benjamin Watson speaks, I listen. I have so much appreciation for his perspective.

A balanced perspective

I found this book to be very helpful in offering a balanced perspective. It invites you to look inward, outward and upward to solve racial issues. Very thoughtfully written.

outstanding!

this is an excellent book, well written , even-handed and insightful on a complex and important issue for our society.

Incredibly Insightful For A White Woman From The Suburbs

This book was so insightful to me as a white woman who knows nothing about the perspective of being black in this country. I feel naive to the inclusiveness I felt we all had, and ignorant to the issues black Americans have to deal with. Though it was sometimes hard for me to hear, I am thankful to Benjamin for having the courage to write it and teaching us that Jesus Christ is the only real way we are going to experience true change within ourselves. I wish ALL my friends and family, black and white, would read this book.