![]() “Our police force was not created to serve black Americans it was created to police black Americans and serve white Americans.”). ![]() ![]() One of the themes she returns to repeatedly is that because of those systems of power, people with different skin colors have drastically different experiences with institutions (e.g. Getting somebody to love people of color “won’t do anything to combat police brutality, racial income inequality, food deserts, or the prison industrial complex”. Race is a component of the system, but not the only thing we need to pay attention to as she writes, “While just about everything can be about race, almost nothing is completely about race”. I particularly liked her distinction that racism is not just “any prejudice against someone because of their race”, but when such a prejudice is “reinforced by systems of power”. The book shares Oluo’s perspective on intersectionality, police brutality, affirmative action, microaggressions, cultural appropriation, and the school-to-prison pipeline. It’s a good introduction for those that want to educate themselves on racism in America. I was recently reminded of this book, and decided to read it during Black History Month. ![]()
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