This has enabled mediocre white men to rise to power on the backs of Indigenous and Black people especially, but also Latinx and Asian people-and women of all races. Patriarchal white supremacist terrorism inflicted on people of color, as well as toxic masculine control of women, have been “baked into” the fabric of the United States, Oluo argues. In Mediocre, Oluo (author of the bestselling 2018 book So You Want to Talk About Race) chronicles how white men, using genocide and enslavement to lubricate their prosperity and ease, have structured the United States to serve and buttress their sense of entitled superiority at the expense of everybody else. “It is standing at the edge of disaster with a gun in its hands, and it’s willing to take us all down with it.” “Right now white manhood is on a suicide mission,” Ijeoma Oluo writes in her newest book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. Ijeoma Oluo, author of Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Photo credit: Courtesy of Ijeoma Oluo)
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