A review by steve_urick
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba

4.0

I am a white man from the US. I was interested in this short essay, in part because some readers were angry about it. The author herself is actually quite angry, and she makes some good points. I am not sure it is fair for her to assume that all white participants in anti-police brutality protests were "grappling with the reality of racism for the first time". Perhaps she is not asserting this as a fact, but rather describing her feelings. Certainly it is fair for her to say that not enough is being done by white people to fight racism and the brutality it produces in so many ways. The book is short on the details of how people should create a more just world, however.