Today’s interview is with a beautiful human being who happens to be black. Neil is a coaching colleague and a new friend who has deeply touched my life. His story is unique in that it began in the Bahamas where Neil was privileged to be among the country’s majority. He also attended a private international school, all the way through high school. There were one hundred and thirty students from over thirty different countries. Race was just a thing that described an individual. It meant nothing more. Neal looks back on those life long relationships with fondness and gratitude, thankful that he knows what it means to live life without the presence of racism.
The next season of his life began in 1988 when he came to The U.S. for college. That’s when he began to understand as he experienced bias, suspicion, and even hate. Much pain is expressed and shared between us as he describes the burden of being a black man in America. His anger toward injustice, exists alongside his sadness and together they seem to have bred a desire to love deeply. You will be touched by the man and his story. Even more so by the vision he shares for America. His childhood left him hopeful that as he is able to see himself in his fellow humans, across racial lines, maybe someday his fellow humans will learn to see themselves in him.
I saw myself in Neil Edwards and I will never be the same.
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