Jordan touches on a wide range of subjects in the book, including his views on race growing up in North Carolina. He told Lazenby that he was suspended from school in 1977, the year he turned 14, after responding to a girl who called him the n-word (via E! Online):
I threw a soda at her, he recalled. It was a very tough year. I was really rebelling. I considered myself a racist at that time. Basically, I was against all white people.
I threw a soda at her, he recalled. It was a very tough year. I was really rebelling. I considered myself a racist at that time. Basically, I was against all white people.
At least he learned the error of his ways 
And so it begins.