Summary

In her final chapter, Owens discusses the ramifications of slavery, noting that “this topic gets the most airtime and discussion from white liberals seeking positions of power” (239). She cites calls for reparations to show that “wealthy white liberal Democrats'' feel guilty about the past (240). However those who use these calls, Owens argues, are “uneducated or manipulative” (241). She remarks that the fixation on this topic is in part due to a lack of understanding that history did not start in 1619. Social media makes people grossly uneducated in terms of history and the world, and Owens cites the left’s defense of Soleimani and the Iranian regime as evidence. She also refers to Colin Kaepernick’s incredibly uninformed tweeting which “portrays the United States as a fundamentally immoral country” (245). What many people don’t realize, however, is that slavery did not begin with colonial white...