A review of the book Why we Kneel, How we rise, by Michael Holding (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

A book published in Britain this year, written by a well-known black cricketeer, claims to be a history of black people and racism. It is full of the most shocking errors and what look like deliberate falsehoods. This work might not inaptly be described as a classic of black pseudohistory. Thomas Edison’s patent for electric light bulbs with carbon filaments; Howard Latimer’s patent for producing carbon filaments;