カテゴリー: Non-Fiction

★★★★★+❤ How the author, a young black British woman, got fed up talking to white people while trying to protect their fragile sentiments and trying not to be labelled as “one of those angry black women”. But now she knows, the silence won’t protect us.

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge, 2019
288 pages
Read in 2020.01

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What is wrong then? 
The problem of racism is not the black, brown or yellow people. 
It is the white people who regard the people of any colour other than white as the problem. 
Today it's as if being called a racist is "worse" than being actually affected by the racism. 

It was Stormzy who once said something like, in the UK there might not be "obvious" racism, but though it might be hidden it exists, and today they believe they have the right to be racist in public, and that's the scary thing. (I wrote this note originally in 2020, so it's probably a bit old)

The book is about how the author, a young black British woman, got fed up talking to white people while trying to protect their fragile sentiments and trying not to be labelled as "one of those angry black women". 
But the silence won't protect us. 
So it is actually about how she decides, through complex discourses of feminism, class and one-and-only Britishness, that she still needs to speak up to start this important conversation even if it might be uncomfortable for some, I mean, frankly, even if it pisses off many fragile people.


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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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Perché non parlo più di razzismo con le persone bianche (italiano)

★★★★☆ A sober biography of the Buddha as a person. It follows from his birth to death, through history and myth of 2500 years ago. A perfect introduction, to understand why Buddhism started there and then in India.

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Gautama Buddha
The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Vishvapani Blomfield, 2011
416 pages
Read in 2020.02

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A sort of biography of the Buddha as a person, and is trying its best to stay sober.

It's 2500 years ago so it is difficult to give a chronological order but it follows from his birth to death, with very good description to the background that is the Indian society which itself is mythical.

A perfect introduction, to understand why Buddhism started there in India. 
It was a long read and a difficult one to follow (so many long names!) but now that I finished I miss reading it.
He was a fascinating person and definitely philosophical one which is why Buddhism is still spreading even in the West and is being re-imported back in India.

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Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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