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Let’s Make a Deal

Mateo Askaripour’s novel Black Buck skewers racism in startup culture.

In the author’s note of Mateo Askaripour’s debut novel , he asks the reader to do three things: “1) Let down your guard and open your mind to what I’m going to tell you. 2) Understand that I want all people to be successful, but…I’m starting with Black people…If you’re not Black, but you have this book in your hands, I

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