Dear Jordan,
I am writing this letter to you as a sports fan and as a fellow Black man. As I begin to form my thoughts to you, I can already hear some in the distance exclaim, “Why do you say fellow Black man? Isn’t Jordan Love biracial?” I say fellow Black man, Jordan, as I know you know, because we live in a nation where biracial men like Booker T. Washington, Bob Marley, and Barack Obama are Black. They are us. You are us. Or as the former president and chief executive officer of the NAACP Ben Jealous told Michelle Martin of NPR, historically, “White was an exclusive definition; Black was an inclusive definition…”
I am also writing you in the epistolary tradition of James Baldwin.