This was a difficult book to review. It was also difficult to read and to know that what I was reading was truth. If you don’t know it as truth, you need to go way back and look at how we became America and who the people were that made up the rules that some people, based on their sex or skin color, were considered less than.
I’ve studied slavery and the Civil War for a long time. I worked with the Middle Passage Museum and met John Lewis, Coretta Scott King, and many other leaders of the rights movement and survivors of the what is still a racist South and North. Some people are just more blatant about it.
I along with a lot of other people expected Obama to stand up for race inequalities. But as it turned out he wasn’t going to rock the boat either way.
This journalist does. Here you get the unvarnished truth about all sides. In my humble opinion this should be a must read for all high school students. Especially places like Mississippi which in some towns have only in recent years, or make that year, have been forced to stop segregating blacks to the other side of the track schools.
There is no such thing as white supremacy. There are just insecure people who need to have someone to be better than so they aren’t the ones on the bottom.
Thank you for this book Netgalley and Random House! Due to release October 3, 2017
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Love this writer!
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And love your review. In South Africa we also have a history of slavery that has been erased
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Send me some good recommendations for South African authors!
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Will do. I copied your review to my author book club The Good Book Appreciation Society
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Oh thanks!
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I LOVE books like this! Unvarnished truth – those are the best! No spin, no sanitization, no propaganda, no whitewashing, no hidden agenda. Adding this one to my to-read list!! :)) ❤
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! I copied your follow-up to my writer book of account cabaret The Good Book discernment Society
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Being white as they come I can tell you there is such a thing as a belief in white supremacy, and it isn’t just the poorer whites who believe that, it’s in the comfortable middle class and the wealthy white population. My mother and I were i the 40% of whites who voted for Obama and we are surrounded by family who nearly choked on their outrage that a black man was elected president.
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Same here! I think we may have been the only folks in Oklahoma to vote Obama!
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It would be so cool if this was a must read for high school students! I’m in high school and this book CHANGED me. Thanks for sharing this. I also just posted a review of the book and I would really appreciate it if you could check it out and let me know what you think! 😀
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I will definitely check it out! I think it should be taught too. Very nice!
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