Another piece that ought to be required reading.
This book was first published 50 years ago. The true insanity of it all? Every damn word still holds true today. This country that we know has forced its way into what it has become with zero acknowledgment of what it took to get here. A joke in the book: what is a Peace Treaty? When the government wants a piece of your land. I have read up on the history about treaties with Native American tribes which have manipulated, coerced, and conned them into what they currently have only for those treaties of government restitution and protections to be purposefully ignored and denied by the same legal system created for enforcing them. Sound familiar? 
I found it especially interesting about how he compares the Black community to the Native Americans with Blacks saying that they’re lucky to not have been forced into reservations while he explains that they would have been better off with reservations. 
The book is written very tongue-in-cheek, and I can only imagine that the gallows humor throughout is the only way of making it through. Humor really is the best way of approaching a heavy and difficult topic, but is it helpful when the ignorant people laughing don’t have the intelligence to realize it’s about them and their lies? I’ll be posting other recommendations related to these types of reads that I finished last year, but they’re published within the past 10 years as a way of comparing the complete lack of improvement between the two. It’s heartbreaking. 
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We cannot do better without acknowledging our wrongs.