With that in mind, I recently finished three books by Black authors- We Were Eight Years in Power by journalist/author Ta-Nehisi Coates, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and This Will Be My Undoing by essayist Morgan Jerkins.
(Books like My Absolute Darlingwhere a white man uses the c-word too much, however, are perfect examples of when I should put a book down just because it makes me uncomfortable). I don’t want to only read books where I already agree with everything the author proposes, nor do I want to put a book down solely because it makes me uncomfortable where the thing that is making me uncomfortable is a person of color talking about their own experience.
One of the things I have tried to do with my reading over the last year or so is to read diverse voices, particularly diverse non-fiction.
