Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad **** (of 4)

What makes me and white supremacy so effective is it ample accessibility. The book's origin was originally a 28-day instagram challenge. Layla Saad followed with a workbook and then finally this book. There are, with a few bracketing sections, still 28 short chapters. Each chapter is followed with questions designed to stimulate journaling and deep self-reflection. The center of each chapter contains clearly explained bullet points on topics such as white saviorism, white fragility, tone policing, white privelege, and well, another 24 topics we all must address.

Saad says at the beginning, and repeats: white supremacy is ubiquitous, systemic, pervasive, largely invisible to white people, and terribly difficult to acknowledge and do something about. She also makes clear that failure to do so, i.e., business as usual, is profoundly denigrating and deadly to BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color.) It is no small feat to get people to read a book that promises to make them feel bad from beginning to end, but one of Saad's many strengths is honest, forthright, and above all, plain speaking. 

Most of all, me and white supremacy excels because its simple presentation backed by years of research and activism make it a book that is just as useful to a reasonably well read liberal looking for next steps as it is to the white person opening her or his eyes for the very first time.