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Blinded by Whiteness is a bold historical and spiritual examination of how whiteness became one of the most powerful political myths in American history-and how it has repeatedly persuaded millions of white Americans to vote against their own interests, generation after generation. From the collapse of Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, from the Southern Strategy to today's culture wars, this book reveals the hidden architecture of a lie: whiteness was not created to elevate poor whites, but to weaponize them-binding them emotionally to a hierarchy that benefited the elite while draining the working class of true progress. With clarity, prophetic insight, and historical narrative, Jimmie F. Booze exposes how fear was manufactured to fracture solidarity, how religion was distorted to sanctify injustice, and how vigilantism became the enforcement arm of a system that never wanted true democracy. But this book does more than critique history. It explains the present. It shows why policies that strengthen communities-education, healthcare, wages, infrastructure-have been rejected when they seemed to uplift Black and brown Americans too. It traces the pattern of identity replacing interest and reveals how the culture war became a substitute for governance. Written as a companion to The Disease of Supremacy, Blinded by Whiteness calls the nation to awaken from ideological captivity and reject hierarchy for human flourishing. It is a challenge to America's conscience-and a summons to truth, coalition, and freedom.

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