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A review by ktoconnor96
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Tonya Bolden, Carol Anderson
5.0
“It’s time to rethink America.
Imagine if Reconstruction had actually honored the citizenship of four million freed people-provided the education, political autonomy, and economic wherewithal warranted by their and their ancestors’ hundreds of years of free labor.
Imagine if, instead of continually refighting the civil war, we had actually moved on to rebuilding a strong, viable South, a South where poor whites, too-for they had been left out as well-could gain access to proper education.
....This is the moment now when all of us-black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American-must step out of the shadow of white rage, deny its power, understand its unseemly goals, and refuse to be seduced by its buzzwords, dog whistles, and sophistry. This is when we choose a different future.”
For someone who loves history but learned VERY white washed history in middle and high school, this book provided a great overview of the multitude of times when the United States did not serve all of its citizens- and used its power to further discriminatory practices and outright violence against people of color.
Imagine if Reconstruction had actually honored the citizenship of four million freed people-provided the education, political autonomy, and economic wherewithal warranted by their and their ancestors’ hundreds of years of free labor.
Imagine if, instead of continually refighting the civil war, we had actually moved on to rebuilding a strong, viable South, a South where poor whites, too-for they had been left out as well-could gain access to proper education.
....This is the moment now when all of us-black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American-must step out of the shadow of white rage, deny its power, understand its unseemly goals, and refuse to be seduced by its buzzwords, dog whistles, and sophistry. This is when we choose a different future.”
For someone who loves history but learned VERY white washed history in middle and high school, this book provided a great overview of the multitude of times when the United States did not serve all of its citizens- and used its power to further discriminatory practices and outright violence against people of color.