Black Klansman

Black Klansman

2014 • 191 pages

Ratings28

Average rating3.4

15

A quick read. Haven't seen the movie, but I thought the whole case would be much more interesting than it was. Stallworth is not the best writer, despite having written several articles and such. The book was repetitive in many places (telling the same background story twice, using “arguably” twice in the same sentence) which was just annoying to read. I feel like saying he “inflitrated” the KKK is very generous. He talked to them a lot on the phone. Used words he knew would appeal to them and even he talks about how they could never tell he was a black man because there is no “black speak”. It just seemed more amusing to him that he used his real name (which he kept saying was a big mistake though it never seemed to come around and bite him in the ass) and he was pulling one over on the KKK.

February 25, 2019