Black or White if the story in this book doesn't upset you there is something wrong with you. America's hypocrisy is put on trial and the verdict is a rousing guilty. America's history as taught in schools around the country is presented as our founding fathers were gods rather than an human beings with faults and weaknesses of their own. Events such as slavery, The Trail of Tears, Wounded Knee, and other infamous events are either glossed over or ignored all together.
Numerous events are presented in this book highlighting discriminatory tactics in America even after the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 when Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States. In 2013 the United States Supreme Court declared that the Voting Rights Act was no longer necessary because America had changed since those years in the sickening Sixties. However, America had not changed and voter suppression laws have been passed in states controlled by the Republican party that make voting very difficult particularly in area where minorities live. Since the Republican party has nothing to offer African-Americans the only way they can control the outcome of their elections is by voter suppression. How very sad!
Since I am not an African-American I honestly can't begin to appreciate how they must feel in being denied the equal rights that European-Americans enjoy in so many other ways in addition to finding it difficult to vote. What it amounts to is that our Pledge of Allegiance is a farce because there is not "liberty and justice for all."
You, the reader, may rationalize away your prejudices but the truth remains the truth whether you want to believe it or not. America still bares the stain of racism as we move backward rather than forward in treating all Americans alike. This book should be an eye-opener and most likely those who really need to read it will completely ignore it. Bigots may no longer wear white robes with hoods. Instead they wear suits and ties and prowl the hallways of federal, state, and local governments.
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