I felt that this book was a really good starting place for White people.

There were a lot of topics I'd seen discussed in the fragmented form common on social media that were summarized and explained here in a way that I found helpful. If you haven't even been exposed to the concepts before at all, I could see this book being really transformative (I certainly have friends and family who I think would really benefit from reading this book). It is by no means a conclusive study on race, and I would always recommend it in conjunction with other books on race by Black authors.

There were certainly things I thought were phrased oddly or uncomfortably for me and, similarly, things I've seen pointed out by Black reviewers as being uncomfortable for them, and while those notes matter, certainly, I think that the purpose and most of the content of this book were well done and, again, helpful for White people. This video is the one that lead me to read the book after some of those aforementioned comments, and after reading, I agree wholeheartedly with her defense of the book.