2022: A short but powerful take on growing up in very very white spaces.

I knew of Austin Channing Brown, but it was her podcast episode with Brené Brown that really put her on my radar. They talked about the power of community and their equal disappointments with how the Christian Church has failed to grow over the years in regards to actively accepting people of color. I don't think that there was too much "churchy-stuff" in here, but Channing Brown is unabashedly a Christian, and you should expect it going into the book.

I would highly recommend this book to any white folks who have church-going family members that try to tell you that racism "doesn't exist anymore" and that they are "colorblind". Channing Brown highlights a number of examples of micro aggressions that really do add up, both in real life, and as I was reading. By the end of the book, I was exhausted and exasperated, which was an extremely small dose of what many Black folks go through day in and day out in the US today.