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Post #4: In the beginning of the book, Reynolds mentions multiple words like minority, ghetto, Black, urban, undesirables, dangerous elements, and thugs. He talks about the history of these words and their purpose made by racist Whites to degrade Black people.

a) How have these words evolved into our modern-day vocabulary system?

b) How are these words often used in relation to the Black community? What are some examples of these words being used as derogatory terms today?

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Post #3: One suggestion I would make to the author is to dig more deeper into the Free Breakfast Program for Black children and why White people were against this idea. I think that this would be an interesting topic to include in the book because the author had only briefly mentioned the Free Breakfast Program and never went into detail with why this program was found to be so controversial to White people. If the author had mentioned this in the book, it would explain how White people felt threatened by the Black community sustaining themselves. I also believe that this could have  highlighted the time period where Black people began to make their own businesses and systems that weren't made to generate White supremacy.

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Post #2: A moment that stood out to me in the text was when Du Bois had a shift in his thinking. This stood out to me because he had spent his entire career spreading, analyzing, and truly believing assimilationist ideas and it had taken him several years to finally unlearn assimilationist ideas and slowly become, what the author would consider, as more of an antiracist.

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Post #1: The greatest lesson I learned from this book was how planned out racism was/is. The author taught me this lesson because he geared his focus on the topic of systemic racism and explained how many policies were created in order to uphold White power.

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How did reading Thomas Jefferson's uphill story of “I have Black friends” make you feel?

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I actually quite enjoyed the book I wouldn't change much; however sometimes whenever I was just trying to read there was a lot of talking to the readers. It was nice but it could have been dialed back a bit.

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A moment that stuck out to me the most while reading was when i found out about how lower class white people have been reciving government assistance for years and when slaves were "free" and actually needed the help they where seen as lesser and ghetto.

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The greatest lesson I took away from this book was that rumors spread like wildfires and clean up isn't easy. A large portion of racism was due to this bounce off of cruel lies and delusion and it left people hurt while others got grace. Even now we still haven't completely cleaned up from past actions.

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Chapter nine it says, “And abolitionists urged the newly freed people to go to church regularly, learn to speak “proper” English… and basically live what they would consider to be respectable lives.” “This strategy was called uplift suasion.” What do you think are some uplifting suasions nowadays?

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If I was an editor for this book I would suggest to do less talking to the readers. Yes it made it less like a history book but some of it wasn't needed. It kind of distracted me from the information.

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The moment in the text that stood out to me was when it said Whites believe Blacks are "savages" because of the African heat/sun. That the weather made them "the way they are". This stood out to be because it was so ridiculous to read. How can climate make a human act the way they do?

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The greatest lesson I learned from this book is, even over time things still have stayed the same. You would think that after all these years all these protest, people would learn to love one another no matter their color. Yes racism might not be as bad as it used to but it is still here. The author taught me this lesson by informing me on the events that happened back then and now a days. Letting me know that people wont and haven't changed.