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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
funny
fast-paced
funny
informative
Issues like these, sometimes you gotta laugh so you don’t cry. I laughed, but I still want to cry.
I have been telling people about this since I started reading. This is a short book that is satirical but still addresses many of the racial justice issues that black people face. I watched D.L. Hughleys interview and wanted to read it.
A must read. Really should be on the reading lists in schools.
funny
informative
fast-paced
Well! That was a quick, hilarious, and utterly depressing read. I think it does a good job walking that line between informative and in-your-face, though of course it crosses back and forth quite a bit, and so might be a good read for your stubbornly post-racial friend or outright racist relative? Especially one who already likes DL Hughley?
Social justice satire. Not easy but D.L. has done it! Only read if you have read books like The New Jim Crow and are on top of the news. Otherwise, you might think this book is actually just funny and not understand the satire and irony of it. Which would be horrible.
D.L. also breaks down a lot of complex racial and socioeconomic issues in a humorous way. Again, it’s written humorously but there’s a lot of truth and sincerity.
I do wish there were end note citations but I can Google.
D.L. also breaks down a lot of complex racial and socioeconomic issues in a humorous way. Again, it’s written humorously but there’s a lot of truth and sincerity.
I do wish there were end note citations but I can Google.
Summary: A standup around the idea of thinking about the advice that White people will give to Black people about how to not get shot.
How Not to Get Shot is probably best as an audiobook. Hughley knows how to present it for laughs and when to pull back and be sober. The book is mostly satire, but he does pull back relatively often from straight satire to comment on how ridiculous some of the advice is. Quite a bit of the nearly 4-hour audiobook is advice that you have either heard, thought (said), or can imagine someone you know saying.
Hughley has helpful section such as: comply with the police, don’t talk back, remember that the cops are scared, don’t match the description, what type of music to listen to, how to name your children, don’t rush to judgment if you do get shot, etc.
The main point is that the best way to not get shot is to not be Black. But since that isn’t really an option, his use of satire to help White people understand the ridiculousness of the common rhetoric around police and other shootings is thought-provoking, while being funny.
I think there is value in standup comics talking about racial issues. Humor is one way to lower defenses and get people to actually think about something that is rhetorically difficult.
How Not to Get Shot is probably best as an audiobook. Hughley knows how to present it for laughs and when to pull back and be sober. The book is mostly satire, but he does pull back relatively often from straight satire to comment on how ridiculous some of the advice is. Quite a bit of the nearly 4-hour audiobook is advice that you have either heard, thought (said), or can imagine someone you know saying.
Hughley has helpful section such as: comply with the police, don’t talk back, remember that the cops are scared, don’t match the description, what type of music to listen to, how to name your children, don’t rush to judgment if you do get shot, etc.
The main point is that the best way to not get shot is to not be Black. But since that isn’t really an option, his use of satire to help White people understand the ridiculousness of the common rhetoric around police and other shootings is thought-provoking, while being funny.
I think there is value in standup comics talking about racial issues. Humor is one way to lower defenses and get people to actually think about something that is rhetorically difficult.