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If half of this is true, it’s pretty damning. Everyone should read this.

I wasn’t ready for this. I cried. I had nightmares and trouble sleeping. I was exhausted and cranky for the 3 days it took to finish. It’s an important book, but it’s not an enjoyable book. I still need to unpack all of the ways it hit home.

The effectiveness of this book is in the sheer amount of details, quotes, and historical documents cataloguing the unmistakable racism of events being described. It’s staggering and heart-wrenching. Dissolving the whitewash from the “good ole days.”

Seventeen years of formal education should have taught me more of this.