PLEASE: Read the 1619 Project (and others)

Everyone should read this.

I’m not sure whether it has been by design or happenstance, but in recent months I have been consuming novels, history, and commentary by Black authors. Titles include His Name Is George Floyd, How to Be an Antiracist, The Bluest Eye, The Trees, Believing, and others.

It has been eye-opening.

Right now I’m one-third of the way through The 1619 Project. I cannot recommend it enough.

Sadly, the people I wish most to read it won’t. Reasons will vary from understandable (too challenging for their reading level) to disheartening (their wells have been poisoned).

For the former, there’s the audiobook. For the latter, maybe a few will set aside whatever they have been fed by their favorite media, politicians, and relatives and give the book a fair shot.

Not that I’m holding my breath.

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