Status Updates From Tangleroot

Oop…

Umm…

Plot twist. I was wrong. And I’m disgusted.

“Secessionists”??? “Billies”??? “Staining their fingers Trump-orange”???? 😭😭😭

Awwwww, Jabari

She’s even wearing her curls 🤭

Love the accountability!

Oh… that’s unexpected…

“I wish I could share how I felt with Mom: like a part of my kinswoman’s work. And not just hers. I imagined all of us, Black women making, creating ways of being, ways of expression, ways of shaping the lives we wanted for ourselves.”

Being at Virginia has helped her to develop and connect to her familial history and she did that through her passion, but her mom is still denying her personal path.

Ayyyeeeee 🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️

“But just as I’d finally pried off that ring, I decided that my hands were forever washed of Kendall Kovak.”

She’s learning!!!! She growing!!!

We see some character development from Laronte too! I wasn’t expecting that! None from Kendall and even though it’s sad that Noni still can’t decide if she should forgive her for calling her the nword, she is finally recognizing all of the ways Kendall has been racist/her privilege… and also hers and her faults (even though they DEFINITELY are not as bad as Kendall’s racism).

At first I was thinking this book would be like a 3-3.5⭐️ because I wasn’t really enjoying Noni and it felt slow for me at first, but now I am COMPLETELY invested.

I was right about Thomas being Hoyt’s dad!!! But I feel slow because I’m confused about everything else. Although we are seeing some bonding here! And an apology from mom!

Oh so I guess her telling him was her revenge… it’s not enough

Maybe I’m just petty but I wouldn’t have been telling him nothing after he couldn’t tell me he was moving. Especially not since he’s actually interested and ESPECIALLY not since it’s not my business to share.

But I’m glad she knows what racism is. I’m just confused at why she still has a hard time understanding it in her own life. At least we see some development.

Instead of hating and avoiding her, a daughter now yearns for her mother. She also is taking interest in what her mom believes is important and they could bond and find common ground over it, but alas… her mom has yet to try and relate to her daughter. All she does is dismiss her.

Wowwww… character development

“If this were a court of law, you’d lose. That is hearsay. Not history.”

She a hypocrite. Is she not trying to convince the board members at Stonepost to change the name based on the recording of her grandmother recounting events that no one has records of??? Didn’t the board members deny her because she was attempting to defend herself based on hearsay and familial oral history???

Exactlyyyyy!

“Sounds like he’s trying to fit in, by any means necessary. Goes to show you, not all skinfolk are kinfolk.”

Lawrence is starring as the lead in his own minstrel show to please “Massa” as he says. He gets the laughs but just fails to acknowledge that he’s really the butt of the joke.

I just realized he’s black. I thought she said she was the only black person there and he just happened to have a black name. But still, he’s a stupid POS allowing his white gf to laugh at his racially charged jokes and she’s still stupid for taking it. And she talks about Latronte like she doesn’t distance himself from black people/culture as well. He’s just trying to be the black man okay with racism

“As she should.”????

So it’s okay to be racist as long as it’s your boyfriend that initiates it??? Because you immediately take your partners side even if they’re horrible??? And it’s the adult thing to accept that treatment???

hanging out with the racist friends that treat her like a last choice

Not surprised 🙄

The dad got the same problem to, but it’s worse because he is just piggybacking off of mom. Can’t even form his own opinion. The way they diminish her efforts toward what she is passionate about probably contributes significantly to her own whining and lack of consideration of others.

I’m glad we’re starting to see some character development with her taking responsibility for the consequences with what she did to Fluvie, ig small progress matters. Her and her mom still has the same problem with not attempting to see each other’s point of view though.

She disappointed with her mom for not standing up to racism but she rarely does herself?

It is good to see that she does understand racism, but what about what happened in this scene made it different from others as to make it something to stand against but nothing else in the book was worth speaking on or learning about, even some scenes she defended it, so what was so disrespectful about this scene that wasn’t in the others? She yearns for her best friend but can’t take her hair being called weave?

She really stupid.

“Raise sausage? How do you raise sausage?”

Noni is really weird asf. Talking about some “I don’t like her already.” She takes pause at a farm restaurant being called Charm on a Farm but is okay with being a black girl knowing her familial history and working for a descendant who took part in oppressing her ancestors?? Singing Confederate pride songs at an “inn” that gives the “real southern experience” with maids dressed up as slaves???

I don’t like Noni. I genuinely cannot fathom how she does not understand the racism around her, how she is okay with it, and how she is so incredibly selfish/stubborn. Her and her mom have similar problems when it comes to not being able to see things from another’s perspective, so much so that it becomes selfish/insensitive, however, her mom is informed and Noni is being stupid and doesn’t care about impact.