Jame Baldwin (in lieu of a book he was working on)
Pretty much the tale around three murdered friends (who died before-40.)

(Certainly accords ✓ with my experience--from the Protected-side--of our Slaver-State-In-action) and its mega-joules of cha. cha. cha.
..noted from my very first recollections as a tyke. But we didn't have the handy TLAs, then.

A whole lot in a mere 90 minutes away from the traditional infotainment, I wot.
"See some really frightening things about the (A)Murican "sense of reality", as he says atop some game-show excerpts.

..and some lovely rants from a sofa, on white-TV, in answer to a specious query by an old white guy™


Carrion.