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White rage book5/10/2023 How tactics shifted from outright racism to much more subtle approaches of racism. This book outline the systematic tools white leaders have used to continually keep Black Americans down. Anderson highlights the failings of President Lincoln and eviscerates President Johnson (which if you read An Indigenous History of the United States you’ll be unsurprised he’s as horrific towards former enslaved people as Indigenous people). It starts out with context around the history of the Civil War, that it WAS a war fought over slavery and not state rights. This book, this book, though, is a clinical look at our history. To help a reader, targeted towards Black men but very much helps white people, empathize with a young Black man. That book is primarily an emotional book. Obviously there are references, plenty of them, to great Black thinkers and political activists. However, the book only glimpses at touches of context. I felt it really helped explain the environment that many Black men now in their 30’s and 40’s grew up in and that young Black men are growing up in now. If you, like me, recently read “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, you’ll have found that book to be incredibly moving. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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