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Whistleblowers are an integral part of any free society

The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious by John Dodson

February 5, 2021 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Around the middle of January, I kept seeing a meme getting passed around that listed the last several presidents and their biggest controversies. I don’t remember all of them, but the basic gist was that Republican presidents have been riddled with controversial policies and/or behavior (Watergate, Iran/Contra, Iraq, the entirety of Trump’s presidency…). What stood out to me, though, was that the most controversial part of Obama’s presidency, according to this meme, was that he wore a tan suit once. Even though this was just […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barack Obama, Cartels, Fast and Furious, guns, John Dodson, mexico, politics, The Unarmed Truth

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Barack Obama, Cartels, Fast and Furious, guns, John Dodson, mexico, politics, The Unarmed Truth ·
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“Whatever you do won’t be enough. Try anyway.”

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

January 20, 2021 by Nart 8 Comments

It is readily apparent from the length of this book that President Obama has enjoyed the works of Dostoevsky, and every page of this book is worth the read. This is not a good memoir. This is a good book full stop. I can’t tell you the number of times I laughed, cried, and was otherwise deeply moved by this, the first volume of Obama’s record of his time in office. I went for the audio book, as I often do with autobiographies read by […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barack Obama

Nart's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Barack Obama ·
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A First Lady to Remember

Becoming by Michelle Obama

December 1, 2019 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Michelle Obama’s Becoming was an inspirational memoir to experience. I gave the audiobook to my mom for Christmas, but ended up borrowing and reading it myself! I had very high expectations for this book. It ended up being more of an emotional journey than I imagined. The Former First Lady recounts her childhood and her family. She goes into great detail of all the sacrifices her parents made for her and her brother in Chicago. My parents are both from nearby Indiana and  Chicago is […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: #memoir, Barack Obama, Becoming, black culture, Chicago, First Lady, first lady of the united states, Michelle Obama, politics

teresaelectro's CBR11 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: #memoir, Barack Obama, Becoming, black culture, Chicago, First Lady, first lady of the united states, Michelle Obama, politics ·
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Who Was…. Part two

November 9, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Yes, I have mentioned the Who Is/Who Was series before, but I have several of the titles and could not let good reads go to waste! This time: Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? and Who Was Barack Obama? and Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Charles Darwin are the “newest” ones devoured. Of course, pairing Martin Luther King, Jr. and Obama is natural. Two men of color who broke racial barriers. But why pair Earhart and Darwin, too? Earhart broke down barriers, too, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amelia Earhart, aviation, Barack Obama, Charles Darwin, civil rights, Jr., Literature, politics, Religion, Was Martin Luther King

Post by BlackRaven · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Amelia Earhart, aviation, Barack Obama, Charles Darwin, civil rights, Jr., Literature, politics, Religion, Was Martin Luther King ·
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Two books so close as to be indistinguishable

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide; and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander

June 13, 2017 by ingres77 1 Comment

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anti-Racism, Barack Obama, Carol Anderson, Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander, civil rights, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, politics, Race, Racism, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New Jim Crow, the war on drugs, White Rage

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:47 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Anti-Racism, Barack Obama, Carol Anderson, Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander, civil rights, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, politics, Race, Racism, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New Jim Crow, the war on drugs, White Rage ·
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