Carey Smith Sipp

Loved the story, how the science was shared as part of the story.

Revisado: 05-01-25

Loved the awe, wonder, and joy of the author’s appreciation of nature and humanity. Very well written and told. Hopeful but not Pollyanna-ish. Facts about protective factors of mothers’ spirituality was a comfort to me. Thank you!

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Wild. Redemptive. Hilarious. Gory. LOL funny. Shocking.

Revisado: 04-21-24

Wowza. What a story. What a storyteller. Loved the characters. Names. And the sheer gravity of this book in raising awareness of mass murders — genocide — that is largely not considered on a day to day basis by most people in this country. And would be being considered now were it not for courageous Civil Rights leaders of the last century and current groups demanding that truths be told. Bryan Stevenson being being Chief among them in his writings and museums and work for Justice, and many more including Black Lives Matter, Nicole Hannah Jones, Ibram
X Kendi, Resmaa Menakem, Tarana Burke, Mary Trump, Heather Cox Richardson, Isabel Wilkerson, and many others truth tellers I’ll think of as I post this.
Glad we are in a time when truths can be told. Yearn for reparations and end of systemic racism and oppression that makes real change slower than the repair of a backed up sewage pipe or broken water system in Black, rural MS, AL, LA, GA, FL, etc.

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If you love this country, you must read “Poverty, by America”.

Revisado: 05-29-23

Convicting, convincing, inspiring, documented.

We all have a part in either perpetuating the cancerous life-stealing scourge of poverty, or getting real about being among our brothers and sisters whose potential, and whose children’s potential, will be evaporated by the white-hot anxiety and cell slaughtering fires of poverty. Especially as the old white man’s legacy of entitlement and corruption — global warming, harming, cooking, frying — is visited upon all with relentless forest fires, catastrophic tornadoes and floods, shorelines claiming communities, environmental racism causing cancers and other diseases.

Hurt one, hurt all.

The Damndemic showed us that as even some wealthy people couldn’t outrun the virus that did kill more Black, Brown, and poor people by comparison, than whites.
We saw that coming. Knowing poverty and racism are a death sentence it was played out and the truth was laid bare.

But what hurts the poorest and the most underserved truly does hurt us all, as Desmond lays out, again and again, in finely crafted and well documented arguments.

We are being led by blind haters who cannot see love because they are blinded by hatred and the belief there is not enough.

If MAGA folks can join with the $15 wage people in New York State, can we not all come together on this?

Could we not all support the tieless work or the Rev. Dr. William Barber who uses pure data and righteous reasoning to build the best arguments for all coming together to save the collective.

The TRAUMA of poverty is one chapter I’d love to add to this book. I’d include more about what domestic violence sparked by scarcity does to the brains of infants; what the stress of single mothers trying to find childcare so they can work does to their weathered bodies and the developing brains of their precious children.

Thank you for this epic work, Dr. Desmond. The narration and production are excellent.

I highly recommeded this book and will likely listen to it again. I did play so any parts twice or three times I probably have heard it twice!

Please buy and give this book to policymakers with the promise that they will have coffee with you and someone in your area you’ve befriended — genuinely connected with — who can first-hand explain the struggles of securing deposits, finding food, taking multiple busses or walking to work in the rain, finding childcare that is more per month than rent.

Thank you.
Carey Sipp
Director of Strategic Partnerships
PACEs (for positive and adverse childhood experiences) Connection

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Wow. Loved learning this side of many stories that have been twisted a million different ways.

Revisado: 01-28-23

I’m grateful to have lietrned to this book. It gives me a new pence through which to view the Civil Rights Movement and it’s leaders, what some Black people wanted in the early 1960s, the role of the church and why I’d never understood the embrace of it by enslaved people (it was straight-up
manipulation, plus, where else and when else did they have a chance to sit for a bit without having some overseer beating them? Wow. The bill of goods we’ve all been sold in history books, the mainstream media and at every turn by Conservatives and Liberals alike. I am a white woman in my sixties who, as a child in the Georgia, hated the way Black people were treated and could not square what we learned in church with how people were treated. “Jesus loves the little children” and all those words shared in songs but not acted on, as per my interpretation, by his followers.

I loved Malcom X’s treatise on history and why it is so important for us all to learn our history, but especially why it is imperative that Black people dig into their history. Learning about Islam was fascinating. The origin of white men. The creation story from the Koran. The belief that while people are the devil and are evil incarnate, the manipulation of enslaved people to teach them, in hymns and and at all turns, to hate themselves so they could better be controlled by whites, how The March on Washington in 1963 was co-opted by white leaders. Perception is reality and I know these are the perceptions and shared realities of Malcom X. AND I believe they are absolutely vital listening to better understand the arc of history. Our inability to forgive and love ourselves prevents us from seeing that we are all part of a whole that stays in turmoil because of gross systemic inequality, oppression, racism. These talks are 60 years old. How can we still be in the same situation 60 years later? What could have happened had Malcom X not been shot? I want to know more. Reading recommendations welcomed!

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Terrific manual on how to have a more functional workplace.

Revisado: 01-09-23

Loved this book and its timeless, practical advice laid out in a memorable way. The LASER prompt to listen, acknowledge, share, empathize, and return works for me and I have already started using it.

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Simply incredible. Deeply moving. Highly recommended.

Revisado: 10-30-22

This patriot and father deserves a Grammy and sainthood for his work in so many areas of saving our nation. The Grammy for this book, of course. And sainthood for being such an outstanding father, husband, son, leader, writer, historian and patriot. Wow. Thank you, Rep. Raskin!

Your labors of love are boundless. I pray you live a long and successful life that protects and creates the Justice so loved by you and your family. ❤️

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One of the best!

Revisado: 09-19-22

I’ve read dozens of books on parenting, early childhood development, trauma, the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and more. Dr. Suskind connects the dots between each study in a profoundly enticing way. I couldn’t stop listening! Her rage at the way parents and children are treated in our nation — as opposed to the way parents are supported with parental leave, high quality childcare and pre-k, equity in medical care and education in many other advanced nations, but not OURS — is palpable. I love that. She is NOT accepting of our state of the child and parenting. And she doesn’t want us to be either. The missing link is what to do. And I have thoughts on that and would love to ask her and you all join our movement to prevent and heal childhood trauma; to build healthier and more compassionate people, families and communities, at PACEsConnection.com PACEs stands for positive and adverse childhood experiences, and how it takes both — though not the excess of toxic childhood experiences so many endure today — to build healthy brains that will help children achieve the “promise of their promise.” Positive childhood experiences (PCEs) help buffer the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs science is a topic in this wonderful book, as Dr. Suskind explains the undeniable link between childhood adversity and adult disease, behavioral challenges, violence and more.
It’s a natural partnership and one I am pursuing. Carey Sipp, director of strategic partnerships, PACEsConnection.com

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Thank you, Nancy Isenberg

Revisado: 04-16-22

Brilliant. The organization for which I work has been posting a series of webinars on historical trauma. In America. We focused on the genocide of Native Americans the imprisonment I’m Japanese Americans the exploitation of Mexican Americans Chinese other indigenous peoples. We know it is time to look at the historical trauma wrought lower classes ““ this book is seminal foundational vital standing how class and race and the exploitation of both are fundamental to the creation of a nation that is leveraged in every way to maintain autocracy. The grinding oppression of systems created to prevent black from securing wealth from even getting ““ fair shake? We are about ending the systems and the trauma they perpetuate as soon inequities in healthcare education employment even the quality of air and water and the soil on which people to rely very existence. Thank you Nancy Isenberg for documenting histories repetitive scales. We can’t claim that we don’t know that all except the wealthiest are exploited, or that people who have been exploited from the earliest days continue to be harvested enslaved used as they were from the get-go.

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Brilliant must-read to understand how we are at this point. Would have liked equal time for Native American reparations.

Revisado: 09-08-21

Well done. Well researched, written, narrated. Momentous observations shared, connections made, conclusions drawn, implications for action shared. Terrific overview of our nation’s foundation build on the slaughtered bodies and stolen lands of Native American people treated with less regard than animals. Mary Trump also tells with conviction the story of the kidnapping, murder and torture of Africans chained to the rise of our nation’s wealth as our nation’s wealth was undeniably galvanized in the wringing of every ounce of energy from Black and Brown people for the creation of wealth stolen by explorers, enslavers, titans of business with hearts of cold stone. Mary Trump paints a true and vivid picture of the despair felt by so many of us who wept the night Hillary Clinton’s presidency was stolen by corrupt gerrymanderers and social and news media that gave credence to a madman and the oligarchy that wanted him to undo any vestige of the good that good government provides: protection of the common good, defense of all citizens, equal opportunity. What a joke those words have always been, but how much more ridiculous they became under “Donald.” Without being hateful (she could have sounded so much more vengeful; it is good that she didn’t) Mary Trump takes us back through some of the horrors of DJT’s insane four years and his dismantling of our nation’s resources, vitally important governmental agencies, the most vitally important ability to have seen two sides come together to defeat many existential threats. I’ve recently read The Warmth of Other Suns, Caste, The Sum of Us, My Grandmother’s Hands, How the South Won the Civil War and more. And I recently helped produce the first in a series of webinars for PACEs Connection (PACEs for positive and adverse childhood experiences) on our Historical Trauma in America by region. The first region was the South; the Midwest will be 9.16.21. I would highly recommend this book along with the others mentioned to gain insight into our history of genocide, rape, murder, exploitation, aggression, shame, guilt, insanity, depravity, greed, cruelty, unbridled hatred and racism, waste. Mary Trump’s book adds a glimpse at the trauma experienced through all of this. I believe more could have been said about the increased likelihood of Native Americans, African Americans and Latinx peoples to suffer the increased likelihood of chronic disease, addictions, and premature death that could have been in a deeper sharing about epigenetics and how generation upon generation of toxically stressed cells have resulted in people whose genes express themselves now in predispositions to heart disease, stroke, hypertension, kidney failure, addiction, and more. However, Mary Trump did a good job of starting the discussion and tying the trauma to the health crises to the set up for COVID to hit Brown and Black people so much harder due to genetic diseases and adverse childhood experiences which include inequity, racism, poverty.
I believe Mary Trump does a damned good job of sharing what was a collective despair, a collective grief, a congregant near hopelessness while DJT was in office and until we could be sure he was being turned out of office.
Thank you, Mary Trump, for writing this book. I so could have gone to Arizona for treatment, too, following DJT’s election, as it brought up much childhood trauma in the form of being told by reality was wrong. It wasn’t.
I could relate. I wonder what did happen in your youth. Losing your father to alcoholism after he was shamed unmercifully for decades? All of that must have been so painful.
I relate. I appreciate your work and hope you will join PACEs Connection and share more of your learning about trauma and historical trauma with us. Thanks! Carey Sipp

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Wild ride. Loved the last story best of all. Lots of treasures in there.

Revisado: 06-26-21

Funny. Raunchy. Prescient. The final story is amazing and worth the price of the book. Will look for other stories by Jen. Her writing is great because even though one might have and good idea of how the story will end, it is impossible to know what twists and turns she will take readers on to get there.

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