A review by treehuggeranonymous
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis

2.0

My first thought on reading this book (once I got past the guest intro obviously) was that the last thing anyone needed was a straight middle-class white guy (we need a good shorthand for that) lecturing people about race. And that thought was pretty pervasive. Like I guess he made some good points, but I would have appreciated a book about racism more if it came from a less privileged perspective.
I'm probably too much of a liberal for this book, but I guess there are some sections of society who need to hear it from their own perspective before they can start to accept it from others. So, like definitely recommend this book for a racist uncle or an aged relative that says unintentionally racist things, but maybe not for your godless youth who thinks they know better cos they're on tumblr.