How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide | 
pickA good mix of colloquial and academic tone, the book is nicely laid out and the personal stories illustrate the well-footnoted arguments. But Fleming has a different personal and political perspective; I understand the reasoning of dismantling the system to get rid of systemic racism, but I am not there yet. I appreciated the last section with ten concreate actions to becoming more racially literate- it‘s what I missed in other antiracist reads.
pickEye-opening discussion of how "Racism is structural and systemic."
"Have you ever wondered how people lived with slavery, Jim Crow, and lynching but looked the other way? Look around right now. This is how they did it. They did it by going on with their lives. They did it by being polite, not rocking the boat. They did it by surrendering their critical thinking. They did it by cowering to demagogues and bullies"......⬇️
My audiobook loan just came in! I‘m a #runner- one of the ways I get more reading done since having my kid is by listening to audiobooks while running (with my jogging stroller, it‘s a three-fer!). I‘ve always thought of myself as an #ally, but since #ahmaudarbery I‘ve gotten increasingly concerned about how social media can lend itself to white folx using it to perform allyship without doing the actual work. So this is me, trying to #dothework.
