Fascinating book about the few Whites who have challenged their own White supremacist upbringing to become fuller human beings. As it is hard to find a White willing to make the necessary sacrifices to achieve multiculturalism, it is hard to find a Black who fully supports White supremacism. Herein lies the problem that the book recognizes but never fully addresses - that it could find so few Whites opposed to White supremacism in a 500-year historical epoch. Yyet it successfully stresses that Blacks act - for Whites - as both scapegoat for White failings and the consciences of Whites and that this latter fact is both encouraging and dispiriting since it means, respectively, that Whites want to become better people yet possess no conscience of their own.
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