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Loved it! It's humor, of course, but with truth and a message. It also reminded me on every page that I truly am privileged, in many ways. I like to think of myself as pretty progressive, but my reading lately has really made me think again about what it must be like to be a minority in this country, and how I really just have no idea...
This book also has a lot of great moments of what NOT to do if you are a white person. Like, don't touch someone's hair without asking. Don't say things like "wh ...more
This book also has a lot of great moments of what NOT to do if you are a white person. Like, don't touch someone's hair without asking. Don't say things like "wh ...more
My sister gave me this book last Christmas as part of our Jolabokaflod and it made the perfect book to read alongside Debby Irving’s memoir. It’s funny and pointed and another book that I think all white people should read. In a series of short essays, Baratunde Thurston writes a manual for white people to better understand being black in America. I was hoping to write a review last January that played this book off of Debby Irving’s but it just didn’t happen.
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