CBS Radio’s Benji Cole interviews Chase Hayes, the author of “A Private Life: Growing Up Black in America“
Chase Hayes, the author of “A Private Life: Growing Up Black in America,” is interviewed by CBS Radio’s Benji Cole. The interview is about the discussion of the message of the book as well as the author’s purpose for writing this masterpiece.
People of Distinction is one of the most wide-ranging radio shows in the United States, hosted by Benji Cole and Al Cole from CBS Radio. People of Distinction is the right fit for authors and readers to discover newly published books, mostly written by passionate and independent authors.
“A Private Life: Growing Up Black in America” will take you for a walk in the author’s shoes in a life full of prejudice, bias, bigotry, inequity, and favoritism in the sixties and the early seventies, when black folks were looking to black politicians like John Conyers and the NAACP to rescue them from a world full of discrimination.
The inspiring author Chase Hayes was raised in a little French port city in the south, in Mobile, Alabama, where the last slave ship to America docked, the Clotilde.
As he puts it into words:
Don’t get me wrong here, I’ve had an amazing life, the last thing that I want anyone to think is that this book, My Private Life, is about sour grapes. I consider myself a true American red-blooded capitalist like all other good Americans.
This book is about my experiences growing up, my experiences fighting back and growing up to become the best that I can be.
Growing up black in the South, I felt that I had the cards stacked against me from the start. Despite that, I managed to get an education, join the United States Marine Corps and start a successful company. I’m not afraid of hard work either. I paid for tuition by picking up trash after school, delivering papers before school and working in a shipyard. I owned a boutique, ran and built a successful company from the ground with my own blood, sweat and tears.
There are a million different ways that my life could have turned out, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. This is my story, My Private Life, I hope you enjoy reading my story as much as I enjoyed living it.
As the author and Benji exchange insights, the readers will get a glimpse of the author’s heart is strengthened by past and present experiences. “A Private Life: Growing Up Black in America” unveils the “private” and inspiring real story.
Listen to the full interview below: