The Promise We Broke: Racism, Power, and the Cost of America's Unfinished Ideals - Hardcover
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Every morning, millions of Americans stand, place their hands over their hearts, and recite the same promise:
One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The words are simple. The reality is not.
What happens when a nation continues to repeat a promise it has never fully kept?
In this bold and unflinching work, Brandy H. Williams challenges the stories we tell ourselves about progress, merit, and equality-and exposes how systems of racism are not relics of the past, but active forces shaping everyday life.
From classrooms to courtrooms, from housing to hiring, this book reveals a truth many would rather avoid:
Inequality is not accidental.
It is constructed.
It is maintained.
And it is normalized.
This is not a book about what we already know.
It is a book about what we continue to ignore.
And it asks a question that cannot be answered with silence:
If the promise still matters-
what are we willing to do to make it real?
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