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  • 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
  • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (391 ratings)

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Under Our Skin

By: Benjamin Watson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
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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
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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.

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Great Perspective

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

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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.

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outstanding!

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

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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.

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A Must Read for Everyone

What did you love best about Under Our Skin?

The candid exploration of race in America and from the from the various views of everyone involved. The acknowledgement that we can't fix the sin that caused the problem but that God can.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Ben Watson for his introspective revelations of his own prejudice and his attempts to view the issues from all perspectives. He brings an objectivity to an issue that is so entrenched in an "us and them" mentality.

What does JD Jackson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The reader brings the words to life with a depth and emotion that vividy reflect the joy, sorrow, and gravity of each moment.

If you could give Under Our Skin a new subtitle, what would it be?

Conquering Race and the Divide that Sin Created

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Timely!!

Both and.
This is a challenging book.
Well worth the listen. Then, take action.
Christ be with you!

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Excellent in many ways

This is a careful, well thought out review of realities in our nation. And it is also an eloquent appeal for a real and lasting solution. Thank you so much, Benjamin, for writing this book.

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this book is worth it!!! game changer!!!

Benjamin Watson is such a talented writer! His words are so eloquent and he says things that need to be said I need to be heard by all people everywhere. Take the time to listen to this book. I am so happy I did!

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Relevant for Today

This was wonderful. This a book all Christians should read to see how they can help with race in this country as well as acknowledge things we may have a hard time doing rather we are black, white, liberal, conservative or libertarian.

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