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    A Good Negro
    A Good Negro
    A Good Negro
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    A Good Negro

    By Ezekiel James Boston

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    In a world of black ink on a white background resides the fictional town of Good Ol' Days. Born and raised in the divisive comic, college student Curious Negro finds his way to the boarder of his world.

    With his curiosity driving him, Curious leaves behind the confining panels to explore this new world. Getting caught will mean trouble, but Curious has risked worse before…or so he thought.

    * This story made Tangent Online's 2018 Recommended Reading List *

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsewhere Publishing
    Release dateFeb 3, 2019
    ISBN9781386152996
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      A Good Negro - Ezekiel James Boston

      A Good Negro

      A Good Negro

      Ezekiel James Boston

      Elsewhere Publishing

      Contents

      Dedication & Subscription

      A Good Negro

      Thank You

      About the Author

      Also by Ezekiel James Boston

      Coming Soon

      Dedication & Subscription

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      A Good Negro

      SOME THINGS are worth dying for. Curious Negro’s father had told him that, but he never understood it—never felt it—until that day when he found the edge between the black and white world as he knew it and the perception altering world of the creator.

      Beyond the edge of the panel that bordered the town and the world of Good Ol’ Days, the creator’s world had…

      Curious struggled to find a word for it.

      Depth.

      That’s the word his old grade school teacher Smart Negro used when describing the introspective feeling that you got from a good book. But this kind of depth was more like one of Uppity Negro’s underground pamphlets. The ones that guessed at there being something beyond Good Ol’ Days. A third dimension. One where the world wasn’t only made from black ink.

      The creator’s world was no longer a theory on some leaflets that Curious kept hidden under his bed. It was

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