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But have you noticed they're always about ridiculous activities in locations far from home, with chapters like \"How to Survive an Avalanche\" or \"How to Live on Bugs in the Jungle.\" Huh?!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou know who really needs a survival guide? Black and brown Americans. For surviving their own damn country! Minority populations wake up every day in a battle for their health and safety. Thankfully, legendary activist-comedian D.L. Hughley offers How to Survive America, a fearless satire that exposes racism's unjust toll on our bodies and minds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven before COVID-19 disproportionately impacted minority communities, life expectancy for Blacks was a full three years less than for white Americans. The very air we breathe is more polluted, our water is more contaminated, our local food options are toxic, and our jobs are underpaid. Despite the obvious need, the quality of our health care is tragically inadequate. 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Hughley uses his \"hilarious yet soul-shaking\" (Black Enterprise) humor to confront racism's unjust impact on the health and wellbeing of Blacks and minorities \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhite people love survival guides. But have you noticed they're always about ridiculous activities in locations far from home, with chapters like \"How to Survive an Avalanche\" or \"How to Live on Bugs in the Jungle.\" Huh?!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou know who really needs a survival guide? Black and brown Americans. For surviving their own damn country! Minority populations wake up every day in a battle for their health and safety. Thankfully, legendary activist-comedian D.L. Hughley offers How to Survive America, a fearless satire that exposes racism's unjust toll on our bodies and minds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEven before COVID-19 disproportionately impacted minority communities, life expectancy for Blacks was a full three years less than for white Americans. 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And so D.L. proudly raised his finger to \"The System\"* and set out to record a true and accurate** oral history of the Obama years, interviewing everyone from Obama's esteemed Democratic colleagues in Washington to Republican pols who dare not speak his name and segments of the \"conservative base\" who have irrefutable proof that Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim and Saddam Hussein's second cousin thrice removed AND a Coldplay fan. Protected by the Patriot Act and the promise of a presidential pardon, Hughley bitch-slapped virtually every rule of journalism in pursuit of his mission: hacking into Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server; infiltrating Trump's tanning sessions; staking out each of Mitt Romney's 752 mansions; even eavesdropping on Bill Clinton's late-night escapades.  At the end of it all, Hughley had bravely assembled an explosive dossier that would make Edward Snowden (and even the NSA) blush. 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