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sammantha's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Murder, Racial slurs, and Gun violence
itsmeyseniab's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Our democracy will always be a work in progress, no matter what issues rule the day, no matter how the demographic face of America changes, and no matter who wins or loses an election. A more perfect union is possible so long as we embrace the struggle and acknowledge the instances in which American justice falls short and takes steps to rectify it.
This was excellent and should be required reading for all Americans and/or people who are interested in educating themselves further about the racial injustices in the United States and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
ghost_cat99's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality
Moderate: Racism
poursandpages's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This book.
Ben Crump was the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, for Michael Brown’s family. He’s currently the attorney for George Floyd’s family & Jacob Blake’s family.
He has seen some fucking shit.
Have you heard of Howard Morgan, a 53-year old Black off-duty cop who was shot by white policemen for HAVING HIS HEADLIGHTS OFF? What about Victor White III, a Black man who allegedly committed suicide while in HANDCUFFS in the back of a police car? Or Barbara Dawson, a Black woman who died in a hospital parking lot after doctors discharged her and forcibly removed her from the ER, claiming she was faking her pain? I hadn’t either, and there are SO many more we don’t hear about.
Crump walks through the injustices the Black community faces every single day, including the school-to-prison pipeline. A vicious cycle that starts with local tax revenues being the main source of public school budgets, leaving poor and BIPOC children trapped in impoverished towns with underfunded schools. Did you know that kids who don’t receive quality PRESCHOOL are 5x more likely to be chronic law breakers by age 27 and 7x more likely to have served jail time by age 40. What. The. Fuck.
Crump gives us a step-by-step guide to stopping these injustices:
1. Admit the problem. (Ahem, Trump voters. All lives can’t matter until Black lives matter.)
2. Call out injustice.
3. Hold the powerful accountable.
4. Share information.
5. Change the focus from criminal justice reform to criminal justice transformed.
6. See that Black communities are represented in the structures governing them.
7. Rethink incarceration.
8. Change the mission of policing.
9. Amend Stand Your Ground laws.
10. End voter suppression.
11. End environmental racism.
12. Make access to critical financial support a priority.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” - Frederick Douglass
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis
White people, please read this.
Ben Crump was the attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, for Michael Brown’s family. He’s currently the attorney for George Floyd’s family & Jacob Blake’s family.
He has seen some fucking shit.
Have you heard of Howard Morgan, a 53-year old Black off-duty cop who was shot by white policemen for HAVING HIS HEADLIGHTS OFF? What about Victor White III, a Black man who allegedly committed suicide while in HANDCUFFS in the back of a police car? Or Barbara Dawson, a Black woman who died in a hospital parking lot after doctors discharged her and forcibly removed her from the ER, claiming she was faking her pain? I hadn’t either, and there are SO many more we don’t hear about.
Crump walks through the injustices the Black community faces every single day, including the school-to-prison pipeline. A vicious cycle that starts with local tax revenues being the main source of public school budgets, leaving poor and BIPOC children trapped in impoverished towns with underfunded schools. Did you know that kids who don’t receive quality PRESCHOOL are 5x more likely to be chronic law breakers by age 27 and 7x more likely to have served jail time by age 40. What. The. Fuck.
Crump gives us a step-by-step guide to stopping these injustices:
1. Admit the problem. (Ahem, Trump voters. All lives can’t matter until Black lives matter.)
2. Call out injustice.
3. Hold the powerful accountable.
4. Share information.
5. Change the focus from criminal justice reform to criminal justice transformed.
6. See that Black communities are represented in the structures governing them.
7. Rethink incarceration.
8. Change the mission of policing.
9. Amend Stand Your Ground laws.
10. End voter suppression.
11. End environmental racism.
12. Make access to critical financial support a priority.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” - Frederick Douglass
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis
White people, please read this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality and Gun violence
Moderate: Racism
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