In the first of these books, Oluo tells that: “I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country.” However, Oluo is not “black” at all. She is the product of a Nigerian father—who abandoned her, her brother and her mother when Oluo was an infant—and a white American mother. This mother comes in for constant CRT criticism in Oluo’s book: “Our mom never thought that our blackness would hold us back in life— she thought we could rule the world. But that optimism and starry-eyed love was, in fact, born from her whiteness” [