We get a little extra loose when we have night time recordings.  Before we jump into the conclusion for this amazing book, we gave Tori the room she needed to vent about her deep hatred of American football, especially since she wasn’t with us for the chapter that covered this topic.  Once we’re in it, we are in it.  We have a tearful moment of one mother recognizing another mother’s pain as we watch the sometimes life threatening challenges our sons face in the world that’s been built around them.  Oluo faces this with all the additional challenges presented to her as a Black woman living in America.  And where do we come out at the end of this book? We choose to follow Oluo with hope and a desire to find the place in this system where we can make the biggest push for change. 

And that’s the end of Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, we have used this book as a leaping off point for each of us to find the things that we needed to be talking about right now.  We are going to take a bit of a break from reading while our summers all unfold in various ways, but be ready for some fun purge-tastic episodes.

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