Note: This is a way later post, unedited, but this book has really stuck with me. My initial thoughts on it. Cheers! Have you ever read something that made you have a little more understanding about who you are? Or read something that has resonated with you? I'm having all these experiences and more while reading "Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History on Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi. And quite honestly, a Dr. needs to be behind his name to attest to the knowledge and research that he has done in the area of race. And the Dr. is just for the folks that have to live by these social rank markers. The book is, as you guessed it, about race and it's ever evolving history, specifically in the United States. This book is not only helping me relearn our American History with the rose-colored shades off, but I am also finding myself having to unlearn racist ideas that I have of my own. I'm learning (...
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