A review by nashwa017
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of People of Color by Ben Crump

5.0

Ben Crump, the author of this book is an attorney and now presenting George Floyd’s family in court. And this book was eye-opening and extremely engaging. Crump tells us case by case why the killing of black people in the US is a modern day genocide. Just because they’re not being killed in large numbers, it doesn’t mean it’s less of a genocide. He talks about all the ways the system is designed to protect white people and criminalise black people. There are so many examples in this book where white shooters are arrested without being harmed and black kids are killed for wearing a hoodie. He talks about modern day segregation, environmental racism, voter suppression and all the ways black and brown people are kept in oppression. As someone who loves history, this was brilliant but I feel like if you’re American, you’d benefit a lot from this book. Listened to this as an audiobook by and the narrator did a wonderful job!