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A review by domskeac
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope–and Hard Pills to Swallow–About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry
4.0
I enjoy Andre Henry on IG and I came for the tea on his time at Relevant Magazine since hearing about his time there was the nail in the coffin for me consuming any more of their content. (A long time coming.)
This work leans more memoir than anti-racist analysis (if those two things can be parsed from any Black author, which arguably they can’t), and I think the best take of the book is that it details the truth that: it is costly to be an advocate. It will cost you reputation and jobs and friends and that’s a part of the work toward liberation. Any history that doesn’t tell the costliness of advocacy is whitewashed history. I appreciate this lens a lot!
This work leans more memoir than anti-racist analysis (if those two things can be parsed from any Black author, which arguably they can’t), and I think the best take of the book is that it details the truth that: it is costly to be an advocate. It will cost you reputation and jobs and friends and that’s a part of the work toward liberation. Any history that doesn’t tell the costliness of advocacy is whitewashed history. I appreciate this lens a lot!