Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This Is The Way

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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With the requisite qualifications that I’m a cishet white dude reviewing this, please take that into consideration when reading. Call outs are, of course, fair game. Like many Americans, I’ve dug into several books on antiracism in the wake of the uprising following George Floyd’s death. I would recommend them all. They all have knowledge and wisdom for these and all times to both address internal attitudes and reform personal politics around racism. None are quantitatively “better” than the other. But if I had to […]

Not Just Problems, But Solutions.

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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This has been on my radar since I first read ASKReviews’ great review in the best/worst of CBR10 post. Now that I have finally read it, I can say that I should have done that sooner. I don’t know that any book examines racism and its facets as clearly and concisely as this one does it, while also effortlessly uncovering one’s own biases and prejudices. First of all, the author discusses the definition of racism that should be used, and it is one of institutional […]

I had know idea what they were talking about

So You Want to Talk about Race by ijeoma oluo

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This book is probably most distinct and best distilled version of the conversations on race that happen on the internet in certain circles — cough cough pajiba cough cough — and should probably be read by everyone. Oluo has taken it upon herself to be the go-to internet voice to help shape and talk through these issues — or more fair to her, if she’s gonna have to do it anyway, because white people are thickheaded fools who won’t leave her alone about it, at […]

Practical Advice That We Need Now

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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Best for: Everyone interested in combating white supremacy. In a nutshell: Author Ijeoma Oluo offers practical advice for ways to engage in conversations — and actions — to combat systemic racism. Worth quoting: SO MUCH. But some of my favorites include: “White Supremacy is this nation’s oldest pyramid scheme. Even those how have lost everything to the scheme are still hanging in there, waiting for their turn to cash out.” “I think about every black and brown person, every queer person, every disabled person, who […]



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