As a boy, early in his dad’s coaching career, Bubba stumbled upon a horrific sight in Orange, Texas. A group of white men were torturing a Black man on the north side of town. Bubba quickly hid behind a bush. The men burned the letters “KKK” into the Black man’s skin as he screamed. Bubba was paralyzed as the smell of burnt flesh singed horror into his being. He’d witnessed an act of hate that he wasn’t able to stop. No matter how much love you might create and experience in your own home, he learned, the world outside its doors is filled with hatred and violence—and there is nothing you can
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