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candrew said:
I give it another 72 hours before most white liberals deem the amount of outrage expressed as "sufficient" and everything should go back to normal.
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Interesting situation. People literally taking back their streets. It’s over-the-top, but making people notice. Almost showing people the extreme if nothing is done. Hell, they’re begging Trump to use force. If anything, they’ll expose his hollow threats or prove that the police militarization and an oppressive regime is what we’re really dealing with. We’ll see.


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I think it would be good to post all the black people we’re listening to right now. Honestly, I give less than 2 ***** what Ben Shapiro, and most white people frankly, think about this if they haven’t listened to black people yet. I’ve posted this book in a few threads. If I started a thread and we read it together would anyone participate?

Here’s where I started:


So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo


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BabyPeterzz said:
I’ve posted this book in a few threads. If I started a thread and we read it together would anyone participate?

Here’s where I started:

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

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I have this book on hold at the library but am not sure when I will get it. It's quite encouraging that many of the books on the subject of race have multiple holds. And even more encouraging that this week's New York Times' Best-Seller Nonfiction List is almost all books on race. It appears plenty of people are wanting to learn more.

Books I've read in the past couple of years and highly recommend:
Non-Fiction
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (changed my life)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
 
And the books I have on hold at the library and hope to read soon:

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World by Layla F Saad
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

My white privilege will likely never be completely understand and my prejudices will likely never be completely eradicated, but it won't be for a lack of trying to know better so I can do better.
 
I read A Time To Kill. It was fantastic.

There is also a movie with Sandra Bullock, Matthew mchonaghey, and Samuel Jackson based off the book

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JazzGal said:
I have this book on hold at the library but am not sure when I will get it. It's quite encouraging that many of the books on the subject of race have multiple holds. And even more encouraging that this week's New York Times' Best-Seller Nonfiction List is almost all books on race. It appears plenty of people are wanting to learn more.

Books I've read in the past couple of years and highly recommend:
Non-Fiction
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (changed my life)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Kindred by Octavia E Butler
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
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If you liked Kindred, read her "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." I don't recall off the top of my head which one comes fire, I think Talents, but they're at least as scary as Handmaid's Tale, except the protagonist is black.
 
gandalfe said:
If you liked Kindred, read her "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." I don't recall off the top of my head which one comes fire, I think Talents, but they're at least as scary as Handmaid's Tale, except the protagonist is black.
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I have read Parable of the Sower, but haven't read the sequel.

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So glad we’re Paying these guys six figures to beat up such threats like these. Definitely serving and protecting the public...

 
Beer said:
Dave Chappelle with a great speech, talk, routine ... IDK, its about why the black community is pissed and tbh it helped me understand a bit more. It was really great and is well worth 30 min of your time.

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That actually made me cry.
 
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