| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | CD - Audio book |
Clever look at White supremacy which reverses the norm; placing Blacks at the top of the alleged racial hierarchy.
All of the aspects of Institutional Racism are listed (eg, White laziness, stating ethnicity of Black criminals but not White, judging people by who you are not who they are, Police harassment, White loneliness, assuming Blacks are always lying, White attempts at constant surveillance of Blacks, etc) and some of the more important ones are explored in some detail - especially the poorer quality education for Blacks along with the White assumption that Blacks are uneducable, anyway.
It partly fails because it posits an equality of suffering that simply does not exist. Racists have the greater stress, caused the constant paranoid fear of Black revenge. It even suggests Blacks are more prone to suicide because of White supremacy - even though this is not borne out by self-murder statistics.
Where it scores is as a great primer for teenagers on how racism works and, especially, how it can so easily lead to emotional repression from not wanting to rock the boat and the lovelessness of being told who to love and, more importantly, who not to.
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