White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | 
pickVery important and instructive book that everyone should read.
It describes the systematic backlash measures used against black emancipation in the United States, some of which still have a detrimental effect on the country.
so-soTook a moment today to read "White Rage" to continue to help understand the plight of POC through learning more about history. I especially enjoyed the chapter on education since Brown vs. Board of Ed. case given that I am a teacher. It has given me some new things to talk about with others.
I‘m posting one book per day from my ever-increasing TBR. No description. No explanation. Just books to read. Join the fun if you want.
Day 32.
#fromthetbrstacks
I know this is not going to be an easy read, so I‘m hoping to balance it by reading a few chapters between some fiction.
I‘ve not read this yet but I just bought this #kindledeal. I‘ve read good reviews about it. On sale today for $2.99.
pickThis author is amazing. It's not hard to believe that she's a university professor. I wish she had been one of mine. Her books are incredibly detailed without getting bogged down with minutia. I learn things and she makes me think.
I read this for my IRL #bookclub. It was my pick, actually.
#BookSpinBingo square 3
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pickI think there are going to people who read this and think it's conspiracy stories because the stories she tells are so horrific, it's difficult to imagine that they could possibly be real. Out of the many antiracist books, I've read this summer, I think this one had the biggest impact on me.
pickConcise, well researched telling of the history of race "relations" and politics in America. Highly recommend.
pickThis was absolutely gut-wrenching and eye-opening. In a way, I was already aware of a few of these things, but the extent and degree are incredibly troubling. We need to do better, so much better. If you haven't read this: do it. It shows a history that you probably were never taught, especially if you grew up in the south.
A book that should be read in school! There's so much I didn't know whether by omitted history taught throughout K-12 or by my own lack of seeking knowledge outside my comfort zone. I had/have the privilege to ignore anything that discomforted me. Time for me to step up. #blacklivesmatter
pickShameful that ppl who most need to read this are the ones least likely to. There‘s a lot in here I was largely aware of, but details & context were enlightening. The coldly calculating ways that past iterations of white society & gov‘t oppressed & endangered Black Americans for trying to attain equality were so morally repugnant, & the effect is still felt & perpetuated today. Wish it was more in depth in parts, but informative & important. 4/5 ⭐️
To Southern leaders who had already been readying their political arsenal, the decision in Brown [v. Board of Education of Topeka] was but a declaration of war.
[I was going to say, “Imagine this being the mindset regarding Black kids going to school with white kids.” But sadly, this exact kind of thinking is still clearly on display today, over six decades later.]
pick5/5
I learned so much about past and recent American history. It was really enlightening about some of the ways I had been misinformed about the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras of American History. This is a great book if you want to understand how racism is institutional in the U.S.
Traitors during the Civil War and traitors ever after. JFC.
Today‘s #Recommendsday for a #BLMReadingList is White Rage. A great book that does a great job of covering a large amount of material in a clear concise way and does the very important job of explaining how it isn‘t the protestors or rioters who are reacting in anger, it‘s the other half who flip out when asked to do “little” things like integrate, allow voting, or for the police to stop indiscriminately profiling them. Seems topical right now.
The truth is that, despite all this, a black man was elected president of the United States: the ultimate advancement, and thus the ultimate affront.
[N.B.: I always capitalize Black (re: people) but the author does not do so in this book, so I‘m going by her choice when quoting.]
I‘ve had this on my radar for a while. No time like the present, that‘s for sure. #nowreading #blm
Starts soon! I'm still reading White Rage (about halfway though.. it's a tough read), but I wanna watch the chat! Go check it out: https://youtu.be/K6MtnbWbwDI
#blackoutbuddyread #blacklivesmatter
My library holds came thru for curbside pick up. You wouldn't even believe how excited I was! My reading for the next week:
~White Rage by Carol Anderson (non-fiction)
~The Glass Room by Ann Cleve (detective fiction)
~The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (historical fiction)
~Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (historical fiction)
pickGreat book explaining the history of systematic racism in our country and it‘s impact on intertwining portions of society. I definitely felt rage while reading this book- at the way in which we allowed the racism to spread, take root, and grow. It‘s going to take a lot to undo this- and it‘s not just the South that‘s culpable. Get out and vote for Biden in November.
Morning reading. I'm learning things I was never taught in history classes.
pickNot an easy read to stomach but truly eye opening. There is so much that the history books leave out or simply gloss over. This book made me angry and broke my heart. We as humans need to do better.
"Whatever happens in America's classrooms during the next fifty years will eventually happen to America." ??
This book is so good and so well written. I found out about it through Blackout buddyread on Twitter and I am so happy I did.
I was aware about the situation in the USA and I can say that I know a thing or two about it's history even though I never set my foot there, but this book gave me a lot of new information. I expected it to be more aggressive but it's not. It's really a good book depicting inequality in the USA.
I highly recommend it.
I rarely do #FriYayIntro but this is inspired
1. So many good books:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Color Of Law by Richard Rothstein
White Rage by Carol Anderson
2. Black Klansman
The Free State Of Jones
Roots
3. ACLU, not only for this but a bunch of other issues. Bail out funds, etc.
4. Keep an open mind, keep learning more, and be willing to expand your understanding of the issues.
Just started this yesterday. Very eye opening. Very informative and a good read
pickI picked this book up & started reading it in April, then I put it back down & didn‘t touch it again until Sept. It‘s an in-depth, intense, frustrating succinct & disturbingly accurate history of race relations with African Americans in the U.S. from the start until today. I‘ve read books that focused on parts of the problem, specifics snapshots of time, but this is the first book to brilliantly bring all that together into a complete picture! ⤵️
One of my favorite comebacks was Jon Stewart to Bill O‘Reilly ....as he was railing against giveaways and socialism, Jon reminded him that he grew up and was raised in Levittown, a suburb for returning servicemen (only white returning servicemen) where the housing was subsidized and purchased cheaply, and now resold for gains in family wealth. But you know, “it‘s not the same”🤦♀️
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“...around an election or two.”
I always knew that FL was one of the worst states for denying ex-felons the right to vote for years after they served their time...they have to wait 14 years after all their sentencing requirements are completed and then petition the governor to restore their voting rights. Which is crazy for any citizens who has paid their dues, but that includes felonies for letting a helium balloon float up in the air and walking in a construction zone! 😱
As I watch the Ukraine call news, and now our abandonment of our Kurdish allies... I‘d say he‘s accomplishing his goals and then some. 🙁
Oh god, I want to finish this today....but I‘m at the afterward, added to the paperback AFTER the election.
Book dilemma: Put it down to process / recuperate or just rip off the bandaid and finish it now!😱
Tough tough call!
I‘m going in....
😢. More than ever I can see why people need to run for office at all levels of government local, county etc... because this level of disenfranchisement starts locally.
🙄 if you thought deep down that the fix was in and the deck was stacked against you, this will make you realize just how deep that feeling really goes.
“... a utility bill. More than 20% of African Americans, as compared with 3% of whites, do not have a bank account.” “almost 6% of all families in the United States are in multigenerational households. (...) Regardless of the number of adults in a home, only one name appears on the utility bills, making it difficult for the others to prove they actually live there.”
”legitimate-sounding, noteworthy concern: protecting the integrity of the ballot box from voter fraud. Still, Paul Weyrich, a conservative activist and the founder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was explicit early on: “I don‘t want everybody to vote,” he said, noting that the GOP‘s “leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”” “That is where ALEC stepped in to draft “model...” cont.⤵️
Oh Lindsey Graham! 🙄
...”finance the Contras. Congress, meanwhile, already stung by the debacle in Vietnam, was not about to loosen the purse strings. And so, at a December 1981 meeting, Contra leaders, whom Reagan referred to as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers,” floated the idea that trafficking cocaine into California would provide enough profits to arm and train the anti-Sandinista guerrillas. With most of the network already established, ...”(cont⤵️)
...”staff on the National Security Council (NSC) along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In these last throes of the Cold War, Nicaragua was the target. But the collateral damage would spray South Central Los Angeles and then radiate out to black communities all across the United States.”
Ah...the “War on Drugs”, this today makes me think about the current “War on Illegal Immigration” both caused by, & blaming the victims of, bad policy
