Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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5 years, 7 months ago

I do honest work, and this is what I get?

Sam listens to this, and then adds, "[...] I seen friends, good vets who fought for this country, moved out of their Section 8 home because a refugee came. My friend lost his place to a Somali. He was injured serving this country and now he gets less than someone who just came over? [...] I get foo…

—p.214 Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America Racism (189) by Chris Arnade
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5 years, 7 months ago

them bricks were probably made by slaves

A brick buyer from a construction firm, a white man in a large truck, comes to look at the finished piles. He explains, "Handmade bricks, especially historical ones like this, are in demand. They often sell for over a dollar per brick." He sells to companies specializing in reclaimed materials that…

—p.206 Racism (189) by Chris Arnade
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they were forced to come here as slaves,

Telling members of the back row that they should solve their own problems by moving is insulting no matter who you're talking to. But it is particularly insulting to African Americans; their entire history in the United States is of forced and coerced movement. They were forced to come here as slav…

—p.191 Racism (189) by Chris Arnade
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Barack Obama tells us he is one of us

"White collar crime is the biggest crime, but nobody gets thrown in jail for that. Nobody gets prosecuted. Not only don't they get any of that, they get a big check from the president. Barack Obama tells us he is one of us, says, 'Look at my skin; I am one of you,' but he doesn't help anybody when …

—p.94 Drugs (79) by Chris Arnade
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segregation did this to Gary

He pauses, then says, "You have to ask why it is like this. Segregation did this to Gary. When the jobs left, the whites could move, and they did. But we blacks didn't have a choice. They wouldn't let us into their new neighborhoods with the good jobs, or if they let us, we sure as hell couldn't af…

—p.56 If You Want to Understand the Country, Visit McDonald's (37) by Chris Arnade