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Onto the pollution chapter of the Eight Pillars of Caste section of the book; the story of that little boy Al and the baseball team being able to enjoy the pool, except him, was both heartbreaking and infuriating. That, and while I knew segregation in America was highly strict, I didn’t even know there were two types of Bibles — to think even the word of God had to be segregated!

To think that Nazis thought the one-drop rule was too far for them, with plenty discussions of the Wannsee conference and how American eugenic isn played a role in the Holocaust. And dear god, the lynching trees — to think every American town one point had a lynching tree.

Started reading this book a few weeks ago; very confronting, but highly accessible so far (the architecture metaphor was a good one). And won’t lie, reframing plantations as effectively death camps is something so obvious I wondered why others have not pointed this out (and why I, a person whose studied the Holocaust, didn’t think of the similarities earlier). So far, so good.