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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
Give this book to all your black friends. They already know it, but they will laugh reading the nonsense we are told to do in order to not get killed in America.
By laugh I mean the kind of laughter you have not when something is humorous. It's the kind of laughter you have when something is so ridiculous, incredulous, insane, unbelievable, and unjust, yet it's so normal even a young black child knows it.
That kind of funny. I'm going to laugh at this because laughing is the only acceptable form of distain I'm allowed in my country.
Yeah, everyone should read it. If you aren't black so you can understand what we have to deal with. If you are black so you can prove to your non-black friends you know and don't need their lecture in how to encounter the police safely.
By laugh I mean the kind of laughter you have not when something is humorous. It's the kind of laughter you have when something is so ridiculous, incredulous, insane, unbelievable, and unjust, yet it's so normal even a young black child knows it.
That kind of funny. I'm going to laugh at this because laughing is the only acceptable form of distain I'm allowed in my country.
Yeah, everyone should read it. If you aren't black so you can understand what we have to deal with. If you are black so you can prove to your non-black friends you know and don't need their lecture in how to encounter the police safely.
I’m sure I would’ve laughed out loud if it wasn’t all so sickeningly rooted in truth.
How Not To Get Shot is a brief read with a lot of content. It’s satire and humorous, but beneath that is the criticism of “advice” that white people often offer black people and race relations in the United States. This is a book that is infuriating but is written in a lighter way by using humor to lessen the absurdities. I highly recommend everyone read this!
This was hilarious and insightful. I loved the audiobook so so much.
I listened to this book as read by the author. It’s soo many things—hysterical, sadly ironic and very enlightening for people who think racism just doesn’t exist.
The jokes don't seem to translate well to the written word. The book also felt silly. Too serious of a topic to play fast and loose with. I really like DL as a stand up comedian, as a writer he's just not there.
This is how you perfectly tell the truth with satire and sarcasm. Bravo!
I was a goodreads winner regarding this book!
When it comes to this book, it's sad that it had to be written but it's a sarcastic take on the issues that poc and mainly blacks face when it comes to the racial prejudices from law enforcement and even our own government.
For now, guess the best thing to do is curve issues like this with humor.
When it comes to this book, it's sad that it had to be written but it's a sarcastic take on the issues that poc and mainly blacks face when it comes to the racial prejudices from law enforcement and even our own government.
For now, guess the best thing to do is curve issues like this with humor.
The satire in this book is heavy-handed but warranted, laying out how the smug lectures given to black people like "don't mouth off to the police" are a) contradictory, b) not followed by white folks, c) not anything a reasonable society should require, d) not actually effective at preventing harm, and e) essentially just politer ways of saying "don't be black." Comedian D. L. Hughley and his cowriter Doug Moe have come prepared with example after example of victims who were shot despite following all that advice, and although it's tough to find a grim humor in the Black Lives Matter movement, the text does present a stark case for racism as a systemic problem that needs to be dismantled.
On the downside, some of the punchlines in this 2018 title already feel dated, and the arguments occasionally lash out in unfortunate directions. There's a short bit near the end, for instance, where the authors claim that LGBT oppression isn't as bad as antiblackness, in part because everyone has a gay loved one but white people don't have any relatives of color. That's a false point to begin with, and comparing the suffering of different marginalized groups doesn't help either -- or recognize the uniquely vulnerable population at the intersection of those communities. Hughley and Moe also use the transphobic expression "a man trapped in a woman's body" as well as a few unnecessary slurs against other racial minorities. So it's not a perfect read, especially given that it's situated as a guide for the unwoke who may be less inclined to think critically about these issues.
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On the downside, some of the punchlines in this 2018 title already feel dated, and the arguments occasionally lash out in unfortunate directions. There's a short bit near the end, for instance, where the authors claim that LGBT oppression isn't as bad as antiblackness, in part because everyone has a gay loved one but white people don't have any relatives of color. That's a false point to begin with, and comparing the suffering of different marginalized groups doesn't help either -- or recognize the uniquely vulnerable population at the intersection of those communities. Hughley and Moe also use the transphobic expression "a man trapped in a woman's body" as well as a few unnecessary slurs against other racial minorities. So it's not a perfect read, especially given that it's situated as a guide for the unwoke who may be less inclined to think critically about these issues.
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