Local People

racism in a way that maybe motivates constructive action today.

Read the book Local People by John Dittmer, D-I-T-T-M-E-R, Local People by John Dittmer.

That was one of the first books I read in my first graduate history course.

It's kind of dry as dust in terms of prose.

It is not a fascinatingly written book, but it doesn't need to be because it is a catalog in fine-grained detail of the abuses that black people received during the civil rights movement just for trying to vote.

And that book, Local People, even if you just read a couple chapters, it's very timely given that we're, as we record this, a couple weeks away from the midterms to remind you what we as black people and we as a nation went through to have any semblance of a multiracial democracy.

So what is your internal driver? You say you want to build your own table.

You say you're at this table that you no longer want to be at, or maybe you've left and you're deciding what's coming next.