Coming Full Circle: A Memoir

Coming Full Circle: A Memoir
ISBN-10
161739744X
ISBN-13
9781617397448
Series
Coming Full Circle
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2011-03
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Author
Ralph E. Gipson

Description

Ralph Gipson knows what it means to come full circle. Born into a culture of hatred and disenfranchisement, Ralph's life took him to the depths of racism, sexism, agnosticism, drug abuse, violence, and sexual promiscuity. Coming Full Circle follows Ralph on his tumultuous quest to achieve a life of freedom and love. He discovers firsthand the falseness of the stereotypes he grew up believing when he joins the army, travels abroad, and sees a world without the racial divisions he knows back home. Ralph's views of himself and his race grow even more complex when his son and daughter are born. Despite his unhappy marriage, he refuses to leave his children and become just another stereotype. Determined to be a role model for his children, he chooses instead to be an outspoken writer and speaker on issues of parenthood in the black community. Eventually, Ralph hears the call to ministry and endures homelessness and poverty to enter the seminary. But even in the church, Ralph finds that many only see a person's color. Coming Full Circle is a call to action for all Americans, of all races, to realize the vision of the civil rights leaders of the 1950s and '60s and become the 'beloved community' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of.

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