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Oh, HuMANity!

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Highly recommend Beverlyn L. Elliott’s “Oh, HuMANity!: Race Relations in the Trump Era.”
It’s a 60-page essay on the current state of race relations in the US as we’ve transitioned from the Obama Administration to the present one.
Elliott doesn’t just write about the status of race relations, she spells out some steps for us to unlearn bigotry and learn empathy. She talks about respect, which has become a radical approach we should strive for in our activism. She ends with the hope that people acting against bigotry and racism become a step stone to move away from the status of race relations as it’s been left thanks to the Trump presidential campaign and administration.
Elliott’s words are striking but effective in their call for action. We need to not grow complacent or accept things at face-value. We have to question and make US reps accountable for their own inactivity, otherwise, what are we even doing here?
Her writing is accessible, and a perfect combination of the personal being political. This essay should be required reading in order to begin to understand the shifting of race being inherent to our identities to something to be brushed aside.

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This insightful essay provides a thorough analysis of race relations in the era of Trump, by elucidating how white supremacy is at the core of this tragedy, while offering some hope for the future.

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I try to stay away from politics as much as possible, although in this day and age it is very difficult. This book, however, caught my attention.

This may be difficult for some to read. The facts are out there but it seems that it is easier to deny these facts than to face the truth. As a person that really enjoys cat videos, I completely understand, but there comes a time when we need to stand up for what is right.

The idea that some people have to worry that their children are stepping outside, whether to go to school or just to play, is so sad to me. I worry about my daughter anyway, it's my job as a mom, but the level of worry that some people have because of today, AFTER Martin Luther King's speech, should just be appalling. So many have risen to fight these negative ideals and it feels like we're going backwards instead of forward.

This is a very short, only 60 pages worth of why we need to stand up. There is a lot of racism out there and people may lead you to believe that it was gone but sadly with Jim Crow rules being reinstated, some of the racism that never really went away is raring its ugly head. This book has a few, succinct answers as to why that it happening in a way that is not shoving the information down anyone's throat, nor did it seem aggressive. It's there for people to read or not.

Very well done. A bit short but with all of the information, this was probably a good idea. Well done!

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