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A loud rant about important events and issues, this piece is sloppy. The author makes careless factual errors--wrong centuries, wrong details--and delivers basic knowledge as if some great revelations. We already know, for example, that Thomas Jefferson had slaves or that when Lincoln spoke of a country "by the people" that "people" did not legally include women or people of color. He also takes a black vs everybody else stance, even in matters where it does not work historically. For example, no people of color were allowed to become citizens, not just black people, but also Asians, Indians, Native American Indians, Armenians, and 20th-century court cases addressed these disparities. The fundamental concerns and premise of the book are so terribly important, and the "me against the world" tone is valid. However, more careful research, editing, and tightening might turn this blahblahblah into a decent essay. As it is, it reads like a high school student's emotion-driven first draft. I suspect its popularity right now is because it is so very timely. Too bad it's not any good.