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“When people make up their minds about you, they only see you one way, which is the easy way for them.”

After years at his beloved St. Catherine's, Jeff Hicks is forced to spend eighth grade in the public middle school, which he hates. Add to that he‘s no longer speaking to his best friend, his mom lost her job and she drinks too much, and the absentee dad will be of no help…

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Yes! I have finally made it to 300 reviews on NetGalley and, seen as you don't get a badge for 300 and it might be a looooong old while before I get to 500, I will have to blow my own trumpet 🎺🎺🎺

Please disregard the fact that my feedback ratio is a disgrace ... disgraceful 😳

I learned a lot; thanks Litsy for putting this on my radar!

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#DynamicDs Day 26: This may be a perfect example of #Divisive 😅 Review is forthcoming.

This book is a great explainer for the drivers of poverty in America. It‘s a must-read.

The reverend speaks truth to power in this book. You could think of the book as a sermon that a lot of our ‘elected‘ members need to hear. Our oppression is rooted in white supremacy—this is a collective fight that we must all fight together. Capitalism, hatred, misogyny, racism—these are all built up every day on lies we have been told for centuries; the reverend lays it all out here. If we don‘t stop the ‘them v. us‘ and fight back ⬇️

The old myths are tricky, and they can catch any of us in their trap. Yes, it‘s racist to pass policies that we know will harm Black people. At the same time, it is also racist to ignore the ways those same policies hurt poor white people—because racism‘s myths are designed to keep Black and white people segregated so they cannot come together to transform a system that doesn‘t serve most of us. If we‘re going to be anti-racist and⬇️

So-called “election integrity” measures have been introduced in states with long histories of voter suppression, using the contemporary tools of voter roll purges or voter ID requirements to narrow the voting pool and reduce the potential power of a multiethnic voting coalition. I call this reality James Crow, Esquire—the result of Jim Crow‘s son going to law school and coming back to undermine democracy through more sophisticated means. Is it⬇️

One of the most damnable features of our common life is the way we talk about poverty, as if it‘s an anomaly and not a feature of our economic system.
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