The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by Mary L. Trump
View on GoodreadsGenocide against Native Americans, slavery and systemic racism: Mary L. Trump argues these founding wounds were never addressed, and that the nation now suffers something like PTSD because of them. In her account, recent politics and the pandemic added to that injury rather than creating it.
Core ideas
- Built into institutions: Those founding injustices didn't stay in the past; they hardened into institutional discrimination in housing, education, voting rights and criminal justice.
- Compounded harm: Trump administration policies and rhetoric toward marginalized groups, and the COVID-19 pandemic's added toll, deepened wounds that were already there.
- Acknowledgment first: You can't heal what you won't face, and for her that includes the persistence of white supremacy in American government and society.
Published2021
Pages208
ISBN9781250278456
ReadSep 2024
