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In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy.
Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of 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—the more you know someone, the more empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that person—is the springboard for this book. By sharing his highs and exposing his lows, Tyler welcomes us into his world in order 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, 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 started with a Triple F.A.T. 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, the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and why you don't cross black mamas. He teaches readers about the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our society today.
By turns witty, insightful, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and entertains—ultimately building the kind of empathy that might just be the antidote against the racial injustice in our society.
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“Actor-comedian Tyler Merritt flawlessly presents his memoir…His personal delivery keeps the rich flow of information, opinion, and experience absorbing. Cameo appearances by his parents, a freestyle interview with actor/friend James Inglehart, a foreword by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, and his own comments add to this audiobook. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Combines comedy, social commentary, autobiography, and religious musings to stunning effect in this kaleidoscopic take on race and religion in America…Readers will be awed by Merritt’s brutal honesty and inspiring grassroots approach to countering racial injustice and deep-seated prejudice.”
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“Merritt shares his steady journey from a music-loving Christian kid in Las Vegas to actor and activist. Interwoven in his narrative are snippets of U.S. history that spotlight mistreated and marginalized people.”
— Library Journal -
A sad, happy, moving, troubling, inspirational, humorous and brutal account of the people and experiences that formed this exceptionally well-formed man... (Tyler Merritt) … subtly and kindly reminds us of how much we have in common and that assumptions are made by fools.” —Jimmy Kimmel
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt is an actor, musician, comedian, and activist behind The Tyler Merritt Project. His viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black" have been viewed by over 60 million people worldwide, with “Before You Call The Cops” being voted the number one most powerful video of 2020 by NowThis Politics. For over twenty years he has spoken to audiences ranging from elementary school students to nursing home seniors. His television credits include ABC's Kevin Probably Saves The World, Netflix's Messiah, Netflix's Outer Banks, and Disney/Marvel's Falcon and the Winter Soldier. He is a cancer survivor who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.