Susan

Candace gives us insight into her background and what impacted her growth from a political standpoint. Candace gives facts and examples of how the Democrat party is hindering Black American's. Using her own life she shows the importance of rejecting the victim narrative and embracing personal responsibility and growth through positive choices. While remembering that other's choices may affect our personal outcome but it is how we as adults respond to setbacks that ultimate determines our path. Candace demonstrates that skin color only tells others what their level of melanin is and does not dictate how one's life is to look or what one is to believe.

This book has some autobiographical aspects used to illustrate points and facts regarding her own experience growing up as a Black American. This book is not intense or a hard read. It is steady and encourages the reader to the be thoughtful. As I read multiple books at once I found this one to be a break from books that required much more thought, focus and info processing. Candace manages to keep a good balance of thoughtful and introspective without being extremely intense.