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Mediocre white male america5/27/2023 How did you come up with what some might say is a very provocative book title? Image: Ijeoma Oluo (Courtesy Ijeoma Oluo) We must start asking what we want white manhood to be, and what we will no longer accept.” We also have to imagine a white manhood that is not based in the oppression of others. We need to do more than just break free of the oppression of white men. In one passage, Oluo writes: “I do not believe that white men are born wanting to dominate. Now comes “Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” (Seal Press) which examines white male supremacy and its impact on America for generations. Moreover, the presidency of Donald Trump had exposed deep fissures around race, social justice and inequity that exploded this year in the streets of America and beyond. Still, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner and a long line of Black people had already lost their lives to police and vigilante violence in recent years. When the author Ijeoma Oluo’s first book “So You Want to Talk About Race” was published in 2018, the world did not know the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor or Ahmaud Arbery, nor the fates that would befall them.
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