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Awful. The book rests it's arguments on inaccurate interpretations of small segments of history, then extrapolates unreasonable explanations of highly exaggerated, contemporanious social relations, and provides nonsensical conclusions to solving these dubious claims. For example, the assertion that slavery began in 1562 neglects nearly 10,000 years of British history. This including nearly 2000 years of written history that discusses the enslavement of many groups of people from the native Britons during the Roman period to the forced colonial expansion of slave colonies of Celts, Scots, debtors, prisoners, and the white English poor in the 17th through 19th centuries. The ramifications of which in the latter example were seen in White-on-White conflict up through the end of the last century in places such as Belfast. Ms. Eddo-Lodge asserts that the underlying problem is racism which manifests itself in the form of "White Privilege." However, Ms. Eddo-Lodge fails to explain why non-White, Asian populations, primarily from former colonial holding India, perform higher than native Whites who have this alleged insidious and pernicious "privilege." For example: - More than 75% of British Indian students in England get five or more “good” GCSEs, compared to 61% of white British students. - 14% of British Indian students obtain three A* or A grades or better at A‑level compared to 10% for white British students. - 26% of British Indian students in England go on to a top-flight university, compared with 15% of their White, British classmates. - More of the Indian British go into professions per capita, such as medicine, compared to their White counterparts. - British Indians are barely 2% of the population, but account for 12% of all doctors. This book is Leftist propaganda, either intentionally or inadvertently, and reinforces an ideology of tribalism and segregation. Whereas racism and other forms of ignorance exist in small-scale parts of any mixed population, the exaggeration of problems found in this book only leads to more problems and less understanding. Don't waste your money. Check out Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, or Shelby Steele instead if you are interested in the historic, socio-economic condition of Blacks in European nations or former European colonies.