{"id":4294,"date":"2024-05-05T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/time-for-my-biweekly-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:43","slug":"time-for-my-biweekly-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/time-for-my-biweekly-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7192880403844620288>Time for my biweekly newsletter!<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for my biweekly newsletter! <\/p>\n<p>This week I wrote up my thoughts on three books that reinforced each other in an alternate perspective to the more conventional capitalist, &#8220;free market&#8221; orthodoxy where &#8220;great men&#8221; (and it&#8217;s always men) do great things. <\/p>\n<p>Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, by Michael Harriot, flips the spotlight, centering the Black and Indigenous experience, and treating White Americans as the arrogant credit-taking bystanders that they often were. <\/p>\n<p>Poverty, by America, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Matthew Desmond, asks the question of why the richest country on earth has so much poverty. His conclusion is that it is a collective choice to create that inequality, to focus on elevating the rich at the cost of the poor. <\/p>\n<p>Be A Revolution, by Ijeoma Oluo, offers a plan to change these systems through the revolutionary act of rejecting ideologies that treat people as &#8220;less than&#8221; and taking action each day to address inequities. <\/p>\n<p>These three works of history, sociology and activism tell a consistent narrative, and yet I would have unthinkingly rejected them a few years ago because they would have challenged my beliefs of &#8220;the way things are&#8221;. Even if you don&#8217;t agree with these perspectives, I invite you to take a peek inside at what I found powerful in these books. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gN9pXhSW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for my biweekly newsletter! This week I wrote up my thoughts on three books that reinforced each other in an alternate perspective to the more conventional capitalist, &#8220;free market&#8221; orthodoxy where &#8220;great men&#8221; (and it&#8217;s always men) do great things. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, by Michael Harriot, flips the spotlight,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}