She sounds like an amazing author.

Allison Gaines

·Jan 11

She sounds like an amazing author. I will definitely buy this book because I am endlessly curious about the ways in which white mediocrity ties into white supremacy. Her positive, endearing spirit is a plus.

… a better Afrofuture?
I talk to Black writers who write about the future, like Nora [N.K.] Jemisin. We don’t know how we’ve been conditioned by the past; we can’t imagine a free future. And so it’s really vital when we are imagining our future because we are still building ourselves out of the ashes of slavery and violent White supremacy. We are continuously building and defining ourselves. If we don’t know what pressures are trying to define us in the world, if we don’t know how the system works, we actually can’t build something separate from it. I want this [book] to be a part of our reimagining. Looking at what’s been done and what’s harmful and say, “I’m imagining something different.”

A History of Mediocre White Men (and How They Get Ahead)

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Adrienne Gibbs