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Strong Beginning, Contradicts themselves at the end

Revisado: 03-18-21

This book had a strong beginning and was relatable to my experience as a Black man living in Trumpland. It clearly explained the challenges faced by Black people living in conservative areas. How often a Black person has to make strategic moment by moment decisions to successfully navigate Whiteness. However the author made a strange and hard pivot when they discussed the Black electorate shoehorning unnecessary comparisons of Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton to Donald Trump. It was a bizarre shift from truth telling of the Black experience in Trumpland to trying to appease potential White readers that Blacks can be racist too. Then the book discusses a court case that addressed the issue of race in the South but in a way that seemed forced, almost as if it was a passion project that he wanted to share in detail but did not fit. Overall, I will definitely draw upon his personal narrative and experience shared in the earlier chapters in the book as it properly frames the challenges and issues faced by Blacks in Conservative areas within the United States. However, I think it it is problematic and disappointing to undercut the important contribution that was made by this book by centering the racist perspectives of White liberals rather than focusing on how Blacks might thrive in Trumpland in spite of the entrenched obstacles that we face.

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