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The Talk by Darrin Bell

6 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

An incredibly powerful and well thought out graphic memoir. I liked the way Bell intermixed personal and public moments that shaped him in big and small ways. I wish there was more about Bell as a parent but overall I thought this was well paced. My major drawback was that I really didn't like the artwork. I thought there was too much text, and coupled with the messy, sketch-like art, I found it hard to focus on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Minor: Classism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Child death, Violence, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and Antisemitism

emma_sky's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

l1brarygirl's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I pretty much cried through the last 25% of this book. So poignant & powerful. I think Bell was honest and I loved how this book came full circle in a heart-breaking way: The Talk given to him by his own mother when he was 6 to when he had to have this same talk with his own son at the age of 6. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Bullying, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, Slavery, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Classism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia, War, Racial slurs, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Blood

Minor: Cursing

jaduhluhdabooks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

A powerful depiction of Darrin Bell’s life through the medium at which he found his voice, drawings. It’s an eclectic form of story telling that demonstrates the atrocious realities of growing up Black in America. It’s about discovering wealth in your identity and beauty in your experience and value in your speech. It’s about exploration and expression of the self, to exhibit confidence and bodily admonish one’s ability to stand. It’s about the depth of racism institutionally and relationally, gripping the roots of our nation. It’s about the brutality of law enforcement and the criminalization of the “other”. It’s about seeing each other as human, for fighting for equity and equality. It’s about safety. It’s about love. It’s about life. 

Darrin Bell is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon editorial. He made history and it’s a history worth remembering and celebrating. But in order to do it properly you must know ALL of Bell’s story. I am honored to have gotten to sit and reflect with Bell’s experiences, as well as on my own.

Theirs is beauty in acknowledging and celebrating the journey. But theirs is something solidifying about ensuring a safer and more fulfilling journey for those who come after us. May their “talks” be one of history and remembrance. Not of survival and self preservation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Bullying, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Grief, Death, and Colonisation

bravelass85's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.5

A deeply personal tracing back of growing up and later developing self-knowledge of earlier experiences. Book very much feels like it in conversation with Ta-Nahesi Coates.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Police brutality, Slavery, Bullying, Child death, Racism, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic