bekahbeth 's review for:

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

5.0

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This was often a very tough read because of the subject matter, so I read it as I could stomach it, but it was incredibly well-done, finely-tuned, eye-opening, and attuned to deep and difficult truths. I believe it should be required reading for all white Americans, especially those who like me grew up in the 1980s and don't even remember the events of Forsyth County in 1987 when they were national news. To have forgotten is our shame. To remember and to keep remembering -- and now to enact change and reconciliation -- is our responsibility.