[Book] Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
Book cover "We have got to make the white population uncomfortable, because that is the only way to get their attention." That quote at the start of this book is from Bill Russell in 1964. He was a Basketball player, but also a civil rights activist. I categorize this book as a Memoir, mostly because it follows the narrative flow of a memoir. It starts out introducing the reader to Michael Bennett's childhood on a rural farm in the South, into college through the NFL, and discusses his own discovery of the importance of both support and activism on a number of issues of equality....