#Non-fiction Dying of Whiteness

• Author:  Professor Jonathan M. Metzl (1964)
  
• Title:  Dying of Whiteness  (352 pg)
• Published: 2019
• Trivia: winner  2020 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  
• List of Challenges 2021
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Conclusion:

1. Metzl’s timely book looks at
2. Trump’s Right-wing backlash policies:
3. unraveling of Obama Care (the Affordable Care Act)
4. resist available health care (anti-vax)
   
5. amass gun arsenals
6. cut funding for schools
7. ...these politics are literally asking people
8. to die for their “whiteness”.

Strong point:

1. Read the introduction carefully before starting the book.
2. It is filled with information that help you
3. get a helicopter-view of the right-wing policy in USA.

Strong point…..but you have to see why!

1. There are pages of statistics and
2. methods of data gathering
3. …that my numb you. 
4. But graphs will show that the results of
5. distructive policy are quantifiable!
6. That is crucial and the core message of the book.

1.  I suggest skimming and highlighting the results
2. …you want to remember.
3. Example: 
4. Compare gun laws in Missouri vs Connecticut
5. …and numbers of gun inflicted suicide.
6. White men become the biggest threat
7. …to themselves in Missouri.
8. They die by their own guns 2,5 x
9. more often than do white men in Connecticut.

1. But please, keep reading if only to see how
2. budget cuts have devastated the public schools in Kansas!

1. This is just so shocking.
2. Trump and his enablers promote issues and policies to
3. defend and restore white privilege.
4. Dr. Metzl has gone into the America’s heartland
5. to have conversations with people in
6. Tennessee, Missouri and Kansas. (2013-2018)
7. The author reveals to what 
8. …depths these white Americans
9. will go to  and vote  for
10. …American backlash conservatism.

1. This book  is such an eye-oener.
2. I was so frustrated while reading how people can be so stupid
3. …so convinced that Trump is working in their interests.
4. He is not.
5. Trump is a con-man and
6. …it is killing America’s heartland.
7. What is most frightening?
8. Yes, Trump is leaving the White House but
9. …Trumpism is here to stay!
10. #MustRead