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Summary of Mary L. Trump’s The Reckoning
Summary of Mary L. Trump’s The Reckoning
Summary of Mary L. Trump’s The Reckoning
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Book Preview:In The Reckoning (2021), Mary L. Trump pinpoints the cumulative racial and social traumas that are imprinted on the American psyche, including the latest ones inflicted by Donald Trump’s presidential term and the COVID outbreak. Mary Trump, a psychologist who is the former president’s niece, shares a general historical overview of the main problem that continues to haunt America - racial discrimination and white supremacy. She shows how it began, the stages it passed through, and the current state of racism in America. She concludes by offering solutions to make America a true democracy.

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PublisherIRB Media
Release dateFeb 4, 2022
ISBN9781669345381
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    In The Reckoning (2021), Mary L. Trump pinpoints the cumulative racial and social traumas that are imprinted on the American psyche, including the latest ones inflicted by Donald Trump’s presidential term and the COVID outbreak. Mary Trump, a psychologist who is the former president’s niece, shares a general historical overview of the main problem that continues to haunt America - racial discrimination and white supremacy. She shows how it began, the stages it passed through, and the current state of racism in America. She concludes by offering solutions to make America a true democracy.

    Incomplete Emancipation

    Racism and white supremacy are two deeply rooted issues in American history that should have been completely resolved during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, but were not. The postwar indulgence of the Confederacy's traitorous leaders, the lack of alertness in safeguarding liberated Black men and women, and the return to the prewar South's mentality all contributed to the destruction of any advancements achieved during that period.

    Although emancipated, Blacks were not provided any support or protection. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 was not enough, on its own, to secure the newly freedmen and freedwomen. As a result, and with the goal of assisting newly emancipated Blacks,

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