Book Review: "This Is Major" By Shayla Lawson

Remember the old adage," Walk a mile in my shoes?"

This reminds me of that with plenty of references related to the hardships and triumphs of the black culture but also on a more deeply personal and reflective opinion of one such black woman via this author.

While I cannot put myself in her shoes I do know that I'm not jumping for joy as a bankrupt white educated non middle class woman with three kids in extreme poverty trying to secure employment for the past 10 years and being told to dummy it down to please the masses (those being the white upper class white men) who run most businesses in my community.

With this noted the problem is the latter and unfortunately this effects not just one segregation of individuals or communities but the entire nation as we see being played out today.

Racial segregation is most certainly real and terribly unjust and sadly racism, racial profiling, bigotry, and more is also a huge component to the overall problem as a whole.

However, we need to come together, we need to stand united, we need to understand that sometimes we have more in common than not.

This is my point and takeaway is that often you feel alone based on certain characteristics -with the color of one's skin-being among them-yet you are not the only individual suffering daily however, I will note it's a different set of circumstances but pain is pain and suffering is suffering.

In today's world the top 1% are the only ones making it work and sadly the rest of us are walking on eggshells searching for that spark of hope, that light at the end of the tunnel, the ray of sunshine in which we are lifted up and not turned down.

For me this book seemed to be brought together in pieces with the first half as spoken in the author's view as good but the latter half with the extra commentary as thrown together as filler.

I too will note I hope for that light, that ray of sun, that vision that we are all created equal, we are all from one race-the human race- as we must help and support one another.

Thank you to Bibliotheca for this digital e-read as without it this review wouldn't be made possible.