White Rage

This is the first book on racial history that has absolutely left me enraged (ironic, given the title is “White Rage” and I am white).

I had no idea voter fraud was being touted during the Obama administration as a result of young voters (some who were POC and BlPOC) merely showing up to the polls and voting for their candidate. I had no idea the Jim Crow voter laws were coming back. 

This book also gave me a historical understanding on why the GOP would work to get Trump into office (even knowing he had close ties with Putin): There is a long history in the US of “I will happily allow a leopard to eat my face off, as long as they first go after ‘those people' over there.” 

The “After the Election: Imagining” section gave me goosebumps. After reading so much about the racist cycle in the US, reading about how citizens rose up to the challenge of preventing Trump from being able to rubber stamp policies through the branches of government (to the point of putting their money where their values lie and donating to the ACLU $24 mil over a weekend when the ACLU normally brings in $3-$4 mil a year) gives me so much hope for the future of our country to actively strive to stop allowing others to be disfranchised.