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What About Me

What About Me

by John Jackson

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🏆 Bestseller in Sociology of Race Relations

About This Book

Have you ever felt unseen, unheard, misjudged, or misunderstood? In What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America, D. John Jackson, a Fortune 50 corporate leader with over thirty years of engineering and business leadership, shares a simple, powerful message: Your life matters. Your dreams matter. And you can achieve them, no matter who you are or where you're starting out. Through the stories and lessons of his own personal journey, Jackson proves time and again that what you say and do can change the trajectory of your life. Written specifically for young Black men and boys in America today, What About Me speaks to, and for, all marginalized or underrepresented voices with a call of courage and perseverance. When young Black men and boys are fully appreciated, when we all come together through stories of success and hope, this country will finally reach its true potential.
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John Jackson

John Jackson

D. John Jackson is a Fortune 50 leader whose global responsibilities have spanned strategic planning, engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence. With more than thirty years of engineering and business leadership, he is also a documentary film executive producer, strategist, lecturer, and motivational speaker, and the founder of 5J Entertainment, a company dedicated to promoting positive images of African Americans through media. In his book, What About Me: Walking the Tightrope as a Black Man in America, Jackson draws on the stories and lessons of his own journey to deliver a message to young Black men and boys: your life matters, your dreams matter, and you can achieve them no matter who you are or where you start.

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