Much of this book was like talking to Measurehead in Disco Elysium. Just pages and pages and pages of the absolute most inane racist shit. Really brings home how much Abraham Lincoln hella did not end racism in America with a stroke of the pen. I read this for my book club because someone wanted an answer to the question of "How did we get from Reconstruction to where we are today?" This book doesn't explain it all—what book could?—but it accounts for a hell of a lot of it.