The book white rage6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If you read the great African-American poet Langston Hughes’ poem A Dream Deferred, ask yourself: is he talking about black rage? Or white rage? Of course, you’ll probably answer “black rage.” After all, he asks: She says the correct question is not why Black people are angry it’s why whites are so angry when Black people get rights? ![]() Anderson says every time African Americans make gains - from ending slavery to voting rights to the election of a Black POTUS - white Americans mobilize relentlessly to roll back those gains. Carol Anderson talks about her bestselling book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. ![]()
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