Why is this the best book of 2021 and we are only 5 days into 2021
Yallllllllll. Y’all did NOT prepare me for this book. AT. ALL. First, get this on audio. It’s amazing. Zeno Robinson delivered this book to its true potential. 🤯 Let me try to get through this review without gushing.
Y’all watch Wolf of Wallstreet and just think, “Damn, y’all are wild!” Or, “You’re in a cult, call your dad”. That’s Black Buck, but, funnier, and with a head on approach of racism in the workplace. Plus, a dash of real life and how people actually have lives and struggles outside of work.
On the surface, it’s a basic starting manual on the dos and donts of trying to make it in corporate America. On the deeper side, It’s like a starting manual of what it’s like being Black in corporate America. How boardrooms may only have one Black person in the room, how racist pranks are degrading AF and not for “just playing”. I love how Black Buck is formatted. It’s different and unique way of writing and y’all, it works.
Black Buck is not just about trying to achieve this “American Dream”, but literally trying to survive in a world that’s designed to make sure you never survive. It’s about staying true to yourself and your community while still trying to assimilate into the whitewashed corporate culture.
This book took so many twists and turns I did not expect. You loved Buck, you hated Buck, you booed Buck, you cheered for Buck. I loved how the book wrapped up every loose end in the end. This was not at all the journey I expected I was going to go on, but I am oh so glad I did.
Thank you so much @Libro.FM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Blackstone Publishing, & @NetGalley for the gifted copy. Black Buck is out tomorrow (01/05/2021) and is a book that deserves all the praise.
TW: use of the “r” word, whitewashing (like literally.. white washed), cancer, illegal drug use, assault, racism.
Y’all watch Wolf of Wallstreet and just think, “Damn, y’all are wild!” Or, “You’re in a cult, call your dad”. That’s Black Buck, but, funnier, and with a head on approach of racism in the workplace. Plus, a dash of real life and how people actually have lives and struggles outside of work.
On the surface, it’s a basic starting manual on the dos and donts of trying to make it in corporate America. On the deeper side, It’s like a starting manual of what it’s like being Black in corporate America. How boardrooms may only have one Black person in the room, how racist pranks are degrading AF and not for “just playing”. I love how Black Buck is formatted. It’s different and unique way of writing and y’all, it works.
Black Buck is not just about trying to achieve this “American Dream”, but literally trying to survive in a world that’s designed to make sure you never survive. It’s about staying true to yourself and your community while still trying to assimilate into the whitewashed corporate culture.
This book took so many twists and turns I did not expect. You loved Buck, you hated Buck, you booed Buck, you cheered for Buck. I loved how the book wrapped up every loose end in the end. This was not at all the journey I expected I was going to go on, but I am oh so glad I did.
Thank you so much @Libro.FM, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Blackstone Publishing, & @NetGalley for the gifted copy. Black Buck is out tomorrow (01/05/2021) and is a book that deserves all the praise.
TW: use of the “r” word, whitewashing (like literally.. white washed), cancer, illegal drug use, assault, racism.