A Dream.

If you believe, as I do, that the history of amerika is the history of race, if you care about amerika, you'll find yourself reading a lot of books about race. 

I think it's our obligation.

Our obligation to learn.
Our obligation to understand.
Our obligation to truth.
Our obligation to try harder.

That's why we read.

Here are just a few books I've read over the past year or so. Worthy of sharing. On Martin Luther King Day. AKA in much of this country, "It never happened day."

PS. It did happen.

PPS. It's still happening.

PPPS. These are the books that so many in power don't want you to read or know about.

The virtually untold story of the other slave trade--

one that enslaved even more people than the trans-Atlantic one.

Another slave trade no one's heard of.
Moving thousands or millions of people, breaking up families by transporting people from old slave states (ex. Virginia) to new slave states (ex. Mississippi.)

One county through 300 years of history, and its belief and assertion of white supremacy from the 1700s to the 2020s.

Basketball and the "Big O" in the eye of the segregationist storm. Not long ago. Not far away.

                                                                    

Race and music. 
It wasn't just pretty songs.

Would that everyone would read this.
NTL\MR. (Not too long. Must read.)

MAGA 100 years ago.
Hate. Sexual abuse. Power and Cover-up in 1920s Indiana.

One "illegal" (a ten-year-old) and his trek to amerika.

Different place. Different situation. Same enemies.

How to fight.

Arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested arrested. All before he was 30.

Some killing fields float.

One of amerrykaka's premier scholars.

Haiti. Not great-i.

A profound look at white, black and the ten million
shades in between. Through the eyes of Faulkner.

A must read. A must re-read.

Black in 1963. And elite. And oppressed.

Then as now. If you don't like the results of a free and fair election, riot and kill. Then say it never happened.

40 years of solitary. 

For the crime of being a man.

When a WW2 veteran is beaten after helping beat the Nazis.
He wouldn't go to the back.

Basketball in a segregated city. Seems so long ago. Isn't.

Eyewitness to so much.

How the law creates and sustains ghettos.
Another lesson no one knows.

They killed him. They deface his memorial today.
An open casket still.

Eyes on the Prize. How the great documentary was made.

The amerrykant story.

Race hate riot. Rockefeller. Attica!

Thurgood. He's no Clarence Thomson.

We'd rather have no schools than integrated schools.

The FBI killed people. And a movement.

Today they call it ICE. And they're less subtle.

Real. Raw. Riveting. Riven.

A tragedy. Long-running.

Murder people. Then collect insurance on them.
Because, after all, they're a property loss.