In his new book, ‘Being Dope,’ A.D. Carson raps about racial reckoning in Charlottesville and Clemson, South Carolina

In his new book, ‘Being Dope,’ A.D. Carson raps about racial reckoning in Charlottesville and Clemson, South Carolina

A.D. Carson arrived in Charlottesville on May 15, 2017. It was just two days after white nationalists gathered at the Robert E. Lee statue in Market Street Park, protesting the city’s plans to remove it.  The poet, rap artist, activist and newly hired UVA professor watched the chaos unfold in a city he would soon call home.  In his new book, “Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory through Mixtape Memoir,” Carson describes the protest and others that wou…