I pride myself on deep reading each word, but I couldn't do it - this was just too awful. I still finished it. I knew some fraction of this, particularly the forced impregnation, Jesus!, but not the New Year's Day.

The history of race relations in America is like a rotted onion, with layers of evil going all the way down. As far as I know, my ancestors were pretty humble people, druggists and such, but I'm sure they would have participated in this if they could. And many people of pallor today like Zuckerberg and Bezos would do it today - if they could.

Hell, Musk's fortune comes from an emerald mine in South Africa. If those emeralds could talk, I'm sure they would tell stories equally awful, and weep poisonous green tears down the bosoms of the rich women wearing them.

From the bottom of my heart, I am sorry for this.