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Summary of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man 

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Racism is a virus that has eaten deep into America. In every aspect of life, Black people are denied many privileges due to hatred for people of their color. Even in places they manage to get into, they are afforded limited opportunities. This racial segregation has spurred a movement for decades — the anti-racist movement. Though America isn’t rid of racial bias yet, this movement has brought about some progress. And to bring about complete change, everybody is needed — Black and white people alike. Emmanuel Acho, a Black American former linebacker and analyst at Fox Sports, reaches out to white people in “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” showing them why they should be a part of the anti-racist fight as well as how to. This summary breaks down the core of white privilege, white talk, and reverse racism. It offers a way to fix America and make it a truly great place with love. “A world without racism is being in one country, on one continent, in one world celebrating life together, wherever we’ve come from to get there.” ~ Emmanuel Acho

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After a long history of oppression, black people could use the support of white people to make America a healthy place for all

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In “Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes writes, “O, let America be America Again / The land that never has been yet.” Hughes published these words in 1936, almost twenty years before the civil rights movement. This was when he had a strong reason to critique America for not fulfilling its promise of uniting humans of all races. At the time of the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, many white people were unwilling to make America what it could be. At the time of the 1992 LA uprising, scores of white people were still resistant to forging a version of America that made good on its founding principles.

Now it’s 2020 — more than eight decades after Langston’s poem — and America still has a long way to go. White America has shown that they are dramatically divided on accepting how far America still has to go.
In the wake of the devastating murder of George Floyd, many white Americans are now ready to help America become a safe place for all.
If you are one of the white people who want to help, but you don’t know how to go about your quest for change, you have come to the right place. Read on for an increased understanding of race. Within these chapters are tips on how to have more empathy and make moves to challenge the status quo.
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The question of a name is a big issue between Black and white people

A large share of African Americans came from ancestors who were taken from their homeland and robbed of kinship, ties, language, links to a tribe, and other things that could give them an identity. This slavery went on for hundreds of years and legally ended during the end of the civil war. As a way of gaining an identity, emancipated African Americans began to adopt different racial labels. From “colored” to “negro” and then to “Black.” While the terms “negro” and “colored” have been ditched with time, America is divided into those who favor “Black” and those who favor “African American.”
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While they are on the benefiting side, white people should help stand against white privilege

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Systemic racism is a real issue and should be taken seriously by Black and white people

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Some white people try to counter Black people’s experience of racial bias by claiming that Black people are racist against them too

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As opposed to being innately broken, Black people are victims of the society which subdued them for so long

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People, regardless of their color, can join the movement to fight for change

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