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This book allows you to do just what is necessary for a great democracy- to have compassion for some one who is not like you, perhaps. I am a privileged white woman. To make meaningful voting decisions we must understand how others different from ourselves live, work, and love. This bbok allows you to undersatnd, where African Americans are coming from, and how far we need to go for all of us...

A discussion of the effect of segregation on race relations early in the book keeps leading me back to the current relationships in the US between the upper and lower classes. As we rely more and more on technology, our combined experiences diminish, and as it did in Jim Crow south, we lose the ability to have compassion for other.

As a white woman, who grew up in the south- eye- opening. The stories told in this book get in your bones.

Largely a how to guide...