Former Seahawk Michael Bennett’s new book, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable, written in collaboration with the Nation’s Dave Zirin, is equal parts sports autobiography and political treatise. Bennett’s first-person account of his journey to the National Football League and increasingly into a life of activism offers a take on sports and politics so shockingly honest that it makes sense it would emerge from this era of Seahawks football. As Bennett writes about at length in the book, the Pete Carroll–led Seahawks are unusual within the NFL for their willingness to have players push the political conversation.
Of course, right before the book’s release, Bennett was traded by the Seahawks to the Philadelphia Eagles. The sections where he expounds on his time with the team now feel like a eulogy for a rare golden era in a brutal sport. This is a must-read book for Seahawks fans.