Reddit reviews How to Be Black

For anyone wondering this is a real book and it is both hilarious and poignant. I'd highly recommend it.

Black people wanting to know how be a black friend or how to be a better black friend, should check out How to be Black.

(Everyone who isn't black should also read it, but mostly because it is inspiring and hilarious)

It's a real book, guys

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062003224/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478406941&sr=1-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=how+to+be+black&dpPl=1&dpID=41F7kGUmSHL&ref=plSrch

Actually sounds like an interesting book.....well there goes $12 to Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062003224/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1

This book was written by Baratunde Thurston, published in 2012. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

He has been an occasional guest on This Week in Tech, was digital director for The Onion, and is currently the supervising producer of original digital content for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

He’s also funny as fuck.

Yes, yes. This scenario is kind of the whole point of the title.

Anyway, If you like The Onion or The Daily Show, you'd enjoy How To Be Black (even if you aren't). Baratunde Thurston (the author) is a director and a producer of both, respectively. And, just to make absolutely sure the rest of us feel like unaccomplished shlubs, he's also a fellow at the MIT Media Lab.

This book helped me understand what I've been doing wrong my whole life.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062003224/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479536118&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=how+to+be+black

There you go

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224/

I thought that some of the men behind "Stuff White People Like" were Asian? I can't find tell given a quick google search but somehow I feel like I read that in "How to to be Black."

I sent you a PM in case r/venting has a issue with posting links.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

The book

Nothing to take creep shots over.

HERE

Here you go
http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

I see that word 'guilty' thrown around a lot on this issue.

I'll be clear, I think the systemic oppression of blacks in the US is an enormous crime and the ramifications will be felt for probably thousands of years.

That said, I don't want anybody to feel guilty. Guilty feelings aren't going to make anything better, it's a negative emotion that breaks you down as a person. Guilt isn't something you should feel, but you should be aware of the advantages you have and the disadvantages other people have. It's that blindness to the privilege that just makes people furious -- And even not having contributed to slavery in your past, your whiteness has led to you benefiting from racist society. Like this comic illustrates (someone else in the thread linked it already, good comic though.).

It's only natural that people get downright angry about it. Some people will be furious. Some people get so many doors slammed in their faces that they get bitter, and they start only seeing the advantaged as cogs in the system of oppression. That's not a good thing of course, but can you really blame them? A lifetime of being generalized and marginalized, those frustrations are going to go somewhere. I'm sorry if people are always venting on you, but a lot of people just want to see some awareness of that privilege -- some perspective on what it means to be white versus what it means to be black in this country.

That book reddit is always making fun of, 'How to Be Black', is actually a very funny but sometimes very painful book for anybody to read about racial issues in America. If Reddit would stop laughing at its hilariously over-repeated joke pretending it's an instruction manual and read it, they'd understand the title. I don't know, just an example of something I see popping up a lot that shows a lack of perspective. But anyway, good luck to you and thanks for the response.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

> The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media’s insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture’s richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America’s blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black.

Book covers aren't allowed? Amazon site book

Either way...whatever :)

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

Then explain this!