A Horrifying Realization

This is not a fun book to read. Nevertheless, it's one of the most important books I've ever read. It's well-written, painstakingly researched, and paints a vivid picture, but what a picture that is. Douglas Blackmon tells the story of dystopian proportions of the doomed lives of "emancipated" slaves and their progeny, because this hamster wheel of hell went on until WWII. Although it was so unbelievable, believe it I did, because the evidence is there, and cited. If you are not Black Lives Matter "woke", this will do it. There is no way anyone could take this book in and not see how a system has created the path to George Floyd, Sandra Bland, Botham Jean, Ahmaud Arbery, etc., etc., etc.