Jess’s Reviews > The River Is Waiting > Status Update

A few heavy chapters there. Glad to see Corby is introspecting but not surprised when men don’t speak up either. My favorite characters in books are never perfect and always battling their inner demons and trying to strive for being a better person despite all the shit life hands you

A lot of good references to the atrocities of racism which is inherently overt in Trump’s Amerikkka. I like that he mentioned Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin. Relevant and pertinent information and stories of our tragic plight of Trump the last decade of fueling the racist MAGAts and hate in the not so great US

This hits home that in our formative years of history lessons, we were taught we were the good guys. And this book is absolutely right. It’s propaganda they fed us for years. Finally this book is getting it right that “the man” and to be clear “the white man” likes to rewrite history in his favor. To make himself look better because the truth is always racism.

America has not ever been great

There’s so much happening here but it’s well written and executed so far

A couple of good gems from this chapter:
Now that Trump’s in the White House, the political winds have shifted so abruptly, you could get whiplash.
A reference to Satchel Page which I learned about from Ted Lasso
We never learned that in school - referring to Colonialism and the whites trying to wipe out Native Americans.

Favorite line of this book so far is Trump lies every time he opens his mouth. Yes, he absolutely does and people just let him get away with his pathological lying and corruption

Corby has some real serious issues and is in one hell of a denial

Well this is starting off promising so far