Adam Coleman
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And even in my lifetime, I've seen things gradually get better for someone like myself. And not just on the superficial level, like look at, we had a black president and all this other stuff. I'm just saying that when I look at the average person in my life, and I have people in my family who are professionals, lawyers, they work for city governments, just a wide range.
And they live good lives, and they're appreciative, and they're positive people. And they're not angry 24-7, but they're not oblivious that, yes, some racists out there exist. But I'll say that most people live in one area their entire life, and they deal with racism.
some sort of people maybe in your area it's terrible but by virtue of having that unstable home we've lived in four states i've lived in five states actually in total four states uh before the age of 18 i've been a rural urban and suburban areas and the amount of racist situations that i've personally dealt with i can fit on one hand
Well, that's Thomas Sowell. That's over my shoulder.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's someone who is admirable. You know, I look at people who are personally in my life. I look at people that I've met since becoming a writer, successful people, like just a wide variety of people. So I don't have one particular person. I take hope from everybody and And the positives of different people, the positive attributes of different people, I learn from.
My big thing is the human experience is about always learning and learning from different perspectives. I've traveled to multiple countries around the world, made friends in these different places, and I always learn something from them. Whether I agree with it or maybe it takes me time to understand their perspective is a different story. But I think that I try my best to learn from everyone.
Well, politically and socially, I'm actually pretty optimistic. I've seen a cultural shift from when I started writing in 2020. Things seem to be calmer, which sounds weird because we saw these protests over the weekend. But the rational people are starting to get more of a voice and the irrational people are very upset about it. But that group of people is smaller.
But the thing that I am concerned about, which is why I wrote this book, and it's very timely for this book to come out, is because repeatedly I would write these articles, like for example, for the New York Post talking about the Uvalde shooter, where he was having mental issues, but he had a break once he stopped seeing his father due to COVID. And I wanted to talk about these different things.
Mass shooter statistics, the vast majority of them come from divorce of single parent homes. This is a common, common thread. And I just kept seeing it come up over and over. And I would use my story as an example where I'm empathizing. I understand, even though their actions are heinous, I understand their beginning.
And so my biggest thing right now is trying to do the best that I can to stem the tide of bad parental decisions, reunification of families. I've been very fortunate to talk to fathers who, yes, they made mistakes, but they're trying to get back into their children's lives and their children have put walls up.
And I'm trying to give them strategies where they can be accountable for what they did, ask for forgiveness, and be patient with their kids so they can be back in their lives. And that would cause so much healing. And I can't tell you how many kids, all they really need is to know that their parents love them and that their parents are proud of them.
And so I think our country, you know, actually throughout the West, we need a lot of healing. So that's the thing that I'm mostly worried about.
Not as of yet. I made it public last year that I'm a Christian now. I was baptized in Georgia. And I am trying to be closer to the ministry, trying to have more of an influence to talk about this message because ultimately this is whether you're secular or not, it is a biblical message. The importance of the family is a godly importance as well.
And so, you know, I do list my testimony within the book in the context of, you know, when I was very young, the Bible was in my hand and I understood scripture. But experiencing mental anguish, experiencing homelessness, constantly moving, I thought God abandoned me just like my father. And then it took me decades.
You know, I'm 40 years old now, but it took me until last year, I was 39 when I was finally baptized and finally fully reunited with my God. So this is a common, common thing. I watch a lot of testimonies of coming to Christ. It's very common to see these people start off with their story of family separation, whether it's through divorce or single parenthood.
and taking decades to come back to Christ. And they are lost in chasing idolatry and money, sex, drugs, you name it, coping with all different types of traumas, ultimately to finally come back. But they're the lucky ones who actually do come back.
Yeah, it is very interesting. And actually, it's a good point that you bring up because this isn't a new thing. It's not like my generation is the first generation to deal with this. A lot of the relationship dynamics, and actually you've seen it on the online world, how negative they talk about men and women as far as dating goes. A lot of that has to do with fear.
A lot of that has to do with what they've seen at home. And so when you ask these young people, well, why don't they want to get married? It's because they saw how their parents conducted themselves. Marriage to them is- Absolutely.
Yeah, that's exactly it. It is a piece of paper, but there's meaning behind it. You're putting skin in the game, but on top of that, it's an institution so we can raise our families. Most people, their objective of getting married is to start a family, or at least that's what it used to be. But now we see marriage as some sort of business deal. What do I get from it?
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