I went into this book with off-the-charts expectations and it still managed to exceed them so, excellent book. I appreciated how detailed it was, how zoomed-in it was, and how it focused on racism as well as wealth inequality. Also media, which I didn’t expect.

I was also really struck by the Forward to the 10 Year Anniversary edition that I read—where she discussed how unpopular her message was in 2010 (it was the hopeful Obama years and people just wanted to put racism behind them).

It made me think about how books that don’t hold back, that say the thing that needs to be said no matter how unpopular, hold up so well. It’s a lesson that nonfiction books that are instantly popular upon release could be telling us what we want to hear, not necessarily what we need to hear 🤔