there are multiple very good reasons this book is unnecessary in 2024, among them, that Black people write about their experiences as Black people all the fucking time and we don't need Book Elvis to cover it for us
The blue check has valuable meaning in the Doppelganger media era: It consistently identifies bad faith purveyors of low quality information, as does the Trumpian arrogance promised by the Amazon overview prose:
"Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written."
I'm sure it is, Sam, in the way that "My Pet Goat" is the most important book ever written about 9/11.