A review by guinness74
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Anything that I would write about this book would grossly underestimate and, truthfully, tarnish the reality of its importance. It would be impossible to read this book and not see that Black America (and make no mistake that there is definitely a different nation for Black people) has been denied, again and again, the right, the ability, the power, to make itself equal on any terms that White America sets forth. More often than not, it is White America that places the stumbling blocks, rather than the stepping stones. I urge you to read this book, particularly if you are White, so that you understand the whys and hows of Black America and the inability of this nation to say that it has achieved anywhere near racial equality. 
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