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«Questo è uno di quei libri che rivendicano un futuro dove non ci sia più bisogno di libri così. Essenziale». Marlon James

Un'esplorazione ad ampio raggio degli inestricabili legami che intercorrono fra razza e classe sociale, storia e politica, memoria selettiva e tradizione, comunità e individuo. Una guida essenziale per chiunque voglia capire perché le questioni razziali segnano il destino delle nazioni e delle comunità che le abitano, e cosa si deve fare per rompere un meccanismo inerziale e oppressivo. Perché non parlo più di razzismo con le persone bianche

Utter crap!

Let me explain why.

My wife is from Bangladesh, we will have been married for twenty years this december and have two wonderful daughters.

My point: I have had more racist abuse from blacks and asians since we have been married and my wife as had almost nothing in comparison. In fact the police found it very funny that my wife phoned them because it was I that was getting the racist abuse at our house not her at the time. It's amazing that they can laugh at white people for getting racist abuse but not the other way round.

I was (many years ago), waiting for a bus in East Ham when a young asian woman with a baby was racialy abused by a black guy, because she was pushing a buggy and going slow he points at her shouting, Why don't you fuck off back to YOUR own country bitch.
Not being able to let this stand I responded that She has got as much right to be in MY country as you. The emphasis on my was the response to him saying your. The frustration I felt was because there was no white people involved in the initial altercation it was ignored by everyone around me, but if it was a white guy everyone around me would have exploded.
In the end I was rewarded with a thank you and a smile knowing that not everyones a bastard.

Black and asians are becoming openly racist and the native white population are not supposed to retaliate, the title of the book reflects this very well. If the title had the words black people there would be an outcry.

I am certainly not racist but this book would make me change my mind if not for my wife and daughters.

This book is erratic, poorly researched and without substance and partial truths. The author should not have been allowed to publish this one sided racist argument.
A book that only fans the flames rather than extinguishes them.

Before anyone throws a hissy fit let me point out that to only way for us to marry was if I converted to islam.


PS: We only have one world so shut up and let's all get along, hey...


Shhhh... I still do not tolerate religion. Italian Reni Eddo-Lodge opens up her provocative and challenging viral blogpost of 2014 into a 224-page (big type) book that has something to say, but says it unbelievably poorly. Eddo-Lodge may be right that ‘structural’ (institutionalised) racism is the biggest problem facing Britain today, she’s definitely right that anti-immigrant narratives are cynically used by those in power to divide the working class, and her early insights into whiteness being the ‘default’ from which everything is forced to deviate (unless it will try to conform) are incisive and valuable. But her narrative voice â€" which she complains is too often characterised as ‘angry’ because she’s a black woman â€" is increasingly monotonous, patronising and illogical, with vast leaps between evidence and conclusions, and she repeatedly misrepresents or mischaracterises dissenters and their views (whether socialist commentators or those who opposed Rhodes Must Fall), slinging accusations at them which simply aren’t borne out by the case studies she offers.

Eddo-Lodge isn’t a historian â€" the selected examples of 20th century British racism are horrific but presented with no real coherent commentary or through-line â€" she isn’t a particularly good writer, and she seems to lack the rigorousness, contextual aptitude and transmittable empathy to be a decent polemicist. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by James Baldwin, but this haphazard book â€" containing one isolated piece of council reporting, much re-hashing of Twitterstorms about black Hermione et al, and an exclusive interview with Nick Griffin, the author apparently labouring under the misapprehension that otherwise he can sue her for libel for quoting him on Question Time â€" is frankly all over the shop. Her overall thesis â€" that the dice are loaded against black people from the start, that white people unthinkingly benefit from this system and that intersectionality in feminism is essential â€" is absolutely sound, but a lot of her arguments are conjecture, and a lot of her contentions are nonsense. Like the idea that Britain failed to take the killing of Stephen Lawrence and the purposefully botched investigation seriously. Or that Diane Abbott’s moronic statement after the eventual trial came to entirely dominate the news agenda, scuppering the chance to have a serious debate about the issues involved. She’s right that modern black history should be taught in school, but wrong that it’s entirely kept out of the mainstream: I learnt of the Windrush at university and of the Brixton and Notting Hill riots by reading newspapers. We studied Stephen Lawrence in extraordinary depth in lessons for three different school subjects, and from personal, social and political perspectives.

Every so often she’ll say something that catches you completely off-guard, and causes you to question and interrogate your beliefs, and that’s where the book is valuable. She’s great on the failings of ‘colourblindness’ and at dismantling the argument against quotas, does well at challenging the unions and the Labour Party for their culpability in racism, and (more comfortably) at highlighting conservative hypocrisy in adopting progressive language to further reactionary ends. The personal insights are quite moving at first, but she also engages in some utterly unedifying score-settling (largely aimed at white feminists), and absolutely loses her shit about an acquaintance who failed to believe that Eddo-Lodge definitely failed to get a job due to racism. The author’s evidence for this racism is that she had the same qualifications as the person who got the job, and is sure that it was racism. She’s poor, too, at suggesting how we effect change, tripping herself up with unyielding ideology. She says that racism is a white problem but that white people can’t be at the vanguard of the fight against it, at least not in multi-ethnic spheres, which isn’t only confusing, but also unhelpful and patronising.

It’s incredibly important to listen to diverse voices, but being one of those voices doesn’t excuse you from the basic duties of writing, research and logic. This is a poor polemic: disjointed, misleading and too often repetitive when it should be relentless, its genuine insights lost in a shapeless collection of personal beefs, yellowing Twitterstorms and disparate case studies. Eddo-Lodge doesn’t care how she comes across, which is good for her, as she comes across as someone who’s so intolerant of others that she manages to rub you up the wrong way, despite being in the right. Italian A great primer about Black history in England and why it's important to be intersectional and to think outside of your own experience. Especially as a Canadian it was really interesting to read about the British perspective and specific history. I especially catch myself thinking a lot about Eddo-Lodge's emphasize on making change in our workplaces. 9788833573199 Why I'm No Longer Talking to Black People about Race.

Consider that statement if you want to read this book. Avoid the mental gymnastics of postmodernism. Ask yourself, does this statement show love and respect to other humans?

If you answered no, then you are not a moron. Stay that way. Treat people as individuals, not as stereotypes. Paperback White privilege is the fact that if you're white, your race will almost certainly positively impact your life's trajectory in some way. And you probably won't even notice it.

Once again - calm your horses - I'm here to say: every white person needs to read this books. Every one of us.

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race caught my attention roughly a year ago when I first saw the cover. And it's a good cover. And it's a great title. You were probably taken aback and had to swallow hard. This might have felt like a hit to your usually untouchable whiteness. Of course, this title is here to provoke a discussion. It wants you to listen. Here is what the author has to say:

When I write about white people in this book, I don't mean every individual white person. I mean whiteness as a political ideology. A school of thought that favours whiteness at the expense of those who aren't.

Reni Eddo-Lodge further explains that she is unwilling to talk to white people who do not want to listen, who do not want to talk, who shut down because a discussion about race feels like a personal threat, not one that wants to spread awareness and acceptance.
So if you do feel upset about this title...read the book anyway. It won't hurt you. It will most likely expand your horizon.

Talking about expanding horizons, it sure as hell expanded mine. I could basically feel it shift. Reni Eddo-Lodge tackles a lot of crucial topics in this book. She talks about what initiated her original blog post with the same title back in 2014 and what led to the publication of this book. She lays out the history of slavery and racism in Britain - a topic that even British students hardly learn about in school, explains structural racism, defines white privilege, raises the feminism question, describes how race and class are intertwined and offers advice on what white people can do to fight racism.

I devoured this book in only two days. I took it everywhere I went, read it at home, in the park, on the tube - and earned a lot of side-glances. What the author talks about in this book is so important and true. It's also frustrating and enraging. It seems almost too trivial to say but the fact that people get hurt and killed for no other reason than the colour of their skin is impossible to put into words. It makes me want to scream and shout and throw stuff around and cry. But most of all it makes me want to talk. Because racism is not only something that actively hurts people. It's not something that you can point at. Racism is sneaky, racism is structural, racism is a political ideology that results in children of colour being adopted on average a year after their white counterparts. It results in teachers automatically downgrading non-white students. It results in wage-gaps and lost job opportunities. It results in an underrepresentation in the media, film and publishing industry:

When you are used to white being the default, black isn't black until it is clearly pointed out as so.

I learned so many things while reading this book. Most, however, I took away from the chapter on feminism. Mainly that feminism is not about establishing equality between men and women, it is about liberating all people who have been economically, socially and culturally marginalised by an ideological system that has been designed for them to fail. That means disabled people, black people, trans people, LGB people and working-class people. What Reni means is that a white person should be aware of the structures around them that are in their favour and simultaneously limit other non-white, non-cis-gendered, non-straight, non-male, non-disabled, non-wealthy people. Furthermore, she is aware that these structures will not vanish overnight. They must be pointed-out and fought.

The question is, what can you yourself do to change this system? There is no need to feel guilty for your privileges. Be aware of them, try to deconstruct them and most importantly: talk. Talking will not always be easy, it will most likely be uncomfortable and it might anger and frustrate the people you talk with. But staying silent is not an option. Staying silent means divulging in the privileges you have and enforcing a racist society to strive and grow.

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One of the best books I have ever read, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is essential reading for anyone who cares about social justice, other people, and the state of our society. Reni Eddo-Lodge provides a thorough and incisive history of slavery and racism in Britain, followed by several powerful chapters about white privilege, white-washed feminism, race and class, and more. I want to emulate her writing style: it is assertive and provocative, and every word feels fierce and necessary, with no wasted space in this text at all. She strikes a perfect balance between conveying how entrenched and all-encompassing racism really is, while offering hope that we can fight white supremacy as long as we act. She refuses to coddle whiteness and instead discusses how we should move beyond protecting white fragility. I marked at least a dozen passages, but one I wanted to share about feminism which I absolutely loved:

Feminism is not about equality, and certainly not about silently slipping into a world of work created by and for men. Feminism, at its best, is a movement that works to liberate all people who have been economically, socially, and culturally marginalised by an ideological system that has been designed for them to fail. That means disabled people, black people, trans people, women and non-binary people, LGB people and working-class people. The idea of campaigning for equality must be complicated if we are to untangle the situation we're in. Feminism will have won when we have ended poverty. It will have won when women are no longer expected to work two jobs (the care and emotional labour for their families as well as their day jobs) by default.

On a personal note, reading this book served as such a cathartic experience for me as a person of color. It is painful to recall and to write about the racism I have experienced, like when a white high school English teacher always made me feel awful about my writing because of my Asian identity, or when a white woman tone-policed me and called me passive-aggressive for pointing out her problematic actions toward Asian Americans. I feel so grateful for Reni Eddo-Lodge for reminding me of the importance of using my voice to advocate for liberation even when it hurts. Her strategies of setting boundaries with defensive white people, of acknowledging her own privilege, and of continuing to speak out all inspired me to be bolder and more thoughtful in my own activism.

Recommended to literally everyone, of course. I am grateful for my handful of white friends who show up for racial justice without seeking praise and special treatment. I hope this book will inspire more to join the cause. I will end this review with a quote about how white people can contribute to the movement:

I also believe that white people who recognise racism have an incredibly important part to play. That part can't be played while wallowing in guilt. White support looks like financial or administrative assistance to the groups doing vital work. Or intervening when you are needed in bystander situations. Support looks like white advocacy for anti-racist causes in all-white spaces. White people, you need to talk to other white people about race. 8833573192 It was approximately five months ago that my book club was speaking about race since we were discussing Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I found myself being the unique reference since I was the only black person in the room. https://browngirlreading.com/2017/08/... 240 Racism is a virus, but as long as well meaning, but terribly mislead mental anti vaxxers keep avoiding changing their worldview, overcoming their subconscious bias and agenda, and aren´t willing to openly debate important topics without being offended, it keeps spreading in sophisticated parts of the population that deem themselves progressive, open minded, and pro equality and emancipation, promoting structural racism trough white fragility.

An example that an idea in a blog can be expanded to a very sharp criticism of self righteous, bigoted arguments, that small steps can accumulate to books changing the perspective for many.

Once again, I don´t get the people hating the truth and its harbingers, their sad, restricted minds would be pitiful, if they and the media and system that made them wouldn´t be so dangerous and destructive. It´s not as if this was a humanities style mind game, it are real, true, hard facts, impossible to ignore if one has just a grain of anti opportunistic thinking inside one´s mind.

I do completely understand and promote the opinion behind the title, because most of the elitist, white population and the average population is blind to the harsh reality for most of the world´s population, unable and unwilling to consume critical and progressive media, read books, have own opinions, and prefer to stay with nothing more than repeating the stupid mantras they hear from whatever apologists they prefer to consume.

Proselytizing misguided activists that are worsening the problem by doing as if no more structural violence and inherent social, political, and economic problems exist, doesn´t work, faith has done its job and lead to total isolation from the willingness to change. Aggression and denial will always be the answer, the longer they´ve been so called activists, social justice warriors, and torchbearers of political correctness, the fewer may overthink what lies behind the easy, happy go lucky, unicorn, fairytale, lies many adults love to tell themselves to keep the self-deceit engine running on high tolerance levels.

They are lost, stranded in a mixture of
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salted with
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fueled by the
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Average people don´t really have a chance, from history books to news channels, from education to friends, from politics to relationships, a dulling system of wrong harmony and fringe cultural evolution, a doing as if no problems exist anymore, an extremely subtle system of bigotry, has been established to enable an until before unreached dimension of mendacity, duplicity, and misery beyond the gated communities. The whole system brainwashes people do as if they would be living in an enlightened utopia, encouraging them to be active to keep worsening the problem and waste their time, energy, and intelligence with propaganda telling that everything is fine, never mentioning serious topics, always just driveling about anecdotes, personal tragedies, and the one or other deeper going problem in faraway countries, never on the same continent, not to speak in the same country, unimaginable. Because everything is great there because of their altruistic activism, ok, and everything thinking something else is an as….

aspiring, real progressive who wants to help them in overcoming their logical fallacies.

The book reminded me of
DiAngelo Robin´s White Fragility
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
and
Solnit Rebecca´s Men explain things to me
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
The setting is similar and I just can´t realize why privileged, rich, wannabe sophisticated and intellectual people, just don´t get and understand the underlying problem of their own agenda, biases, and blindness and react small children defiant phase style, are hurt, feel discriminated themselves or, favorite option, just ignore anything that doesn´t correspond to their secretly extremely conservative worldview. It´s so ridiculous, people who are rich and privileged because of the consequences of a history of violence, racism, slavery, war, oppression,… are doing as if they are feeling bad, victim rolling around like mad, tweeting sad, because they are confronted with the real world. As soon as one sided ideologies, even seemingly positive, progressive ones, are involved, forget it.

I´ve mentioned some points that fit in this context too in my reviews of this 2 amazing works
White fragility
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and Men explain things to me.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I guess I´ve already had some redundancies in these reviews, so instead of repeating myself, I decided to just troll around a bit and give the links instead. Same underlying problem, same manifestations, same lack of solutions.

Subjective resume: After having stopped talking about many no gos, such as meta and macro economics, politics, faith, sports teams, favorite beers, etc., I´ve insted directly tried talking to humans, but what shall I say, there is no state to make with indoctrinated demagogue fan girls and boys. Just invest in the youth, the next generation, the kids, and the very few progressive elder ones and forget the rest. They won´t change and you waste your time interacting with them, could have talked to, and worked with open minded people towards sustainable change instead. The older I get, the more ageism is getting a problem, isn´t it ironic, soon I´ll hate even myself and not just all I´m ranting about. Sad. Shouldn´t I instead begin disliking what the youth does?

A note to my trusty review readers: Guess I am jumping off the depressing, ideology fueled nonfiction train soon here for a while, just a hand full left to read, and it doesn´t really help with being hopeful, positive, or less misanthropic. Saying that it takes energy and motivation would be a bit too pathetic and untrue, because I am pretty cold and hardened, but of course one subconsciously becomes, in an individually very varying extent, the creature of what one does, says, reads, eats, plays, etc. Especially these 3 books showed me the dimension of problems so huge that they leave one hopeless, at least for 1 or 2 other generations, breeding further evolved humans by removing epigenetic issues from the ape domestication and behavior cultivation process just takes time.

Some reading is, as said, still to be done and reviewed, especially
Khan Cullors Patrisse´s When they call you a terrorist A black lives matter memoir
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Gay Roxana´s Not that bad Dispatches from rape culture
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Lindy West´s The Witches are coming
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
and
Kantor Jodi´s She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

but most of what had to be read is read, said, reviewed, inappropriately dark humor satirized, internalized, and hopefully spread as wide as possible.

Certainly, new, world improving works may come, I look forward to more inspiring, solution filled books, but for the moment, I think that it ´s this hand full of a few dozen books I´ve read and listed (ok, these are hundreds) in my social criticism and social progress shelves, hardly anyone reads, that could change society. The thousands of also important works showing all the grievances are of course essential too, but solutions, in a political and societal climate unable to achieve compromises and convergence, are much more expedient.

Spreading the word has alpha priority, I hope I´ve done my tiny, insignificant part, learned a lot on this journey, and I hope I could give the one or other reading inspiration. Devour such books, spread the word, open minds, crush the phantasmagorias of well meaning people that just didn´t have the possibility and literature to understand that they are unwillingly part of the problem instead of the solution.

A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real life outside books:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura... 8833573192 i planned on writing a full review of this, but i think all i need to say is:

if you are British and you haven't read this book, change that.

if you are a white feminist and you haven't read this book, change that.

if you think reverse racism is real and you haven't read this book, change that.

if you doubt the worth of affirmative action, if you feel icky about the growing numbers of immigrants in your country, if you are a white person with a Black family member who doesn't understand what that family member needs from you...

i could go on.

this is essential reading.

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pre-review

allow this title to remind you: it is NEVER the responsibility of Black people to teach you about racism. educate yourself. all the resources are there. do not place the emotional burden of explaining marginalization on the marginalized.

review to come / 4 stars

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i am spending this month reading books by Black authors. please join me!

book 1: The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
book 2: Homegoing
book 3: Let's Talk about Love
book 4: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race Nonfiction From the moment I started reading, I could not put this book down. I literally had to start rationing chapters so that I could actually get some uni work done.

This is one of the most eye-opening, thought-provoking, and paradigm-shifting books I have ever read, and I'm so glad I picked it up. The cover and title are, of course, extremely provocative, and it's bold statements like this that prick up our ears and lure us in. If you are a white reader, before you immediately deny your complicity in racism, read a few chapters. Then reassess your judgement.

What I realised is that I had been benefitting from a system my ENTIRE life without even recognising that this was entirely because of the colour of my skin, and reading something this incredible is the catalyst I needed to start making changes. Reni Eddo-Lodge doesn't want you to feel guilty, she wants you to change. And that is exactly what we must do. Perché non parlo più di razzismo con le persone bianche