This is a critique of an ancient boxing manual, that of Philostratus. It was supposed to find its way into The Boxer Dread. Now, it's here for free.

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“ The experience of having the people you admired as [survivors of oppression] relentlessly attack your character, your body, your home, your job, and your family, while casting guilt and blame upon you, is the thread that joins the accounts collected in NEGRO PTSD. ”

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I Hope that this is my Myth of the 20th Century, whose author was executed for writing it. If this is the book out of hundreds that gets this writer killed so to enjoy some posthumous infamy, a blessing that shall be. Of the hundreds—HUNDREDS—of Negroes who hunted, threatened, menaced, attacked and called the PIGZ on me, not one of those hyena men ever got my wallet or my scalp. I still coach two black fighters, and they understand. I like their fellows better than they do. It is interesting that most of the men in this study have done repeated good service to black folk and have real black friends, not pets, but men.

I feel it in my tainted yeti blood, and in the collapsing cracker bones of this old crumb, that this book, Negro PTSD, will subject me once again to the social hatred and animosity I lived under for 38 years, as a lowly night clerk in Baltimore supermarkets.