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A review by fatbookishfemme
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens
1.0
This was a super wild read. Politically im very far left, and was reading this (1) as an exercise in keeping up to date with conservative ideology, and (2) as an antiracist ally trying to listen to black people i don't agree with. The real mindfuck is how solid/how much i agree with some many of premises - the democratic party has done almost nothing to help black people overall, Hillary Clinton did bank on the Black vote without doing anything to help, Biden has said a ton of racist stuff, etc. - basically all the critiques of liberals makes total sense. There's a lot that makes no sense - just poor logic and skewed facts, i.e. saying that virtuous white people stepped in to outlaw slavery in a history of POC enslaving one another, most if not all of the people in the KKK are democrats, Black people have kids to get government money, also the whole last chapter is just a weird Trump-praising rant, talking about how much he's done for the Black community but with no examples? Also a lot of contradictions - a story about an actress friend that the author degrades for blaming racism for not succeeding in Hollywood, but then saying Ben Carson would be right to blame racism for things that happened to him. Difficult to read largely because i felt catapulted between true premises/facts and then illogical/contradictory extrapolations, but glad I read it.