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A review by samsundaram
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
5.0
Wow - this is an excellent book. I found ch. 13, “Why are our students so angry?”, to be especially impactful.
Also:
“I think about every Black and brown person, every queer person, every disabled person, who could be in the room with me but isn’t, and I’m not proud. I’m heartbroken. We should not have a society where the value of marginalized people is determined by how well they can scale often impossible obstacles that others will never know. I have been exceptional, and I shouldn’t have to be exceptional to be just barely getting by. But we live in a society where if you are a person of color, a disabled person, a single mother, or an LGBT person you have to be exceptional. And if you are exceptional by the standards put forth by white supremacist patriarchy, and you are lucky, you will most likely just barely get by. There’s nothing inspirational about that.”
-Ch. 7, “How can I talk about affirmative action?”
Also:
“I think about every Black and brown person, every queer person, every disabled person, who could be in the room with me but isn’t, and I’m not proud. I’m heartbroken. We should not have a society where the value of marginalized people is determined by how well they can scale often impossible obstacles that others will never know. I have been exceptional, and I shouldn’t have to be exceptional to be just barely getting by. But we live in a society where if you are a person of color, a disabled person, a single mother, or an LGBT person you have to be exceptional. And if you are exceptional by the standards put forth by white supremacist patriarchy, and you are lucky, you will most likely just barely get by. There’s nothing inspirational about that.”
-Ch. 7, “How can I talk about affirmative action?”