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A review by lesleynr
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
2.0
I am frustrated with this book. I need a skinny little book to jump right in and make its case. So far he has spent 40 something pages unimaginatively listing statistics (that is citing them in an unimaginative way) to prove that there is still inequality of opportunity between African Americans, Latinos and whites.
I know this already. That's why I bought the book. What I want to know, what I was curious to read his thoughts about, was what this means and how things need to change when whites become the minority "race." And I don't mean just so-called enlightened white people talking to each other. I need some help thinking through how we deal with the backward thinking outright racists, and also the good intentioned whites who may not recognize their own racism... and I think that includes a lot of us.
So... will I continue? I guess. But I think I'll just skim the rest of the stats and see if he ever gets to his point.
I know this already. That's why I bought the book. What I want to know, what I was curious to read his thoughts about, was what this means and how things need to change when whites become the minority "race." And I don't mean just so-called enlightened white people talking to each other. I need some help thinking through how we deal with the backward thinking outright racists, and also the good intentioned whites who may not recognize their own racism... and I think that includes a lot of us.
So... will I continue? I guess. But I think I'll just skim the rest of the stats and see if he ever gets to his point.