EDIT: since learning RD has not given back to communities on which her work preys and instead prioritized her voice rather than making space for BIPOC and LISTENING. White folks got 250 years of free labor (welfare) from the enslavement of Black folks. Since then, the descendants of those white folks have done their best (even at the expense of national security and interest) to keep Black folks distanced from full citizenship. I struggled through some of the book because there were times where it was facts on facts on facts and my brain needed more distance in order to process. But that did not affect the accessibility of the text. EDIT: RD needs to do some serious internal work before speaking on our experiences and butchering them in the process.