A review by mommyre
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Dave Zirin, Michael Bennett

4.0

This book was designed to make people like me uncomfortable. I am sure it does for some. It makes me angry. Bennett's writing doesn't enrage me, the situation that calls for the writing does. Police brutality tends to go unchecked in this country. I see people who "back the blue 100%" all the time. The problem is that no one should back any group of people 100% of the time. I back the blue when it is warranted and the Black when it is warranted there. The issue is that we have mistaken authority with correctness and legal with right. Slavery was never right, but it was legal. Some say that the slave system has not been abolished, only transfigured. Slave owners beat and killed their property unchecked, and now the system continues to treat Black people like Black property. Kudos for Bennett for kneeling and standing up for his brethren. Now, it's time for White people to stand behind him.