A review by shewantsthediction
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book went INNNNNNN.👏🏽  I would recommend it to anyone who's participated in social media activism and/or protests as part of BLM, as this provides a deeper analysis and context for the movement—especially in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, which has disproportionately affected poor Black people.

At the end of the day, Black life is not inherently valuable in this country. And Black death does not constitute a crisis. We are reminded daily that our worth is directly tied to the needs and interests of the powerful.

Black Lives Matter is rooted not only in the Black radical tradition, but also in the Black feminist tradition. As Barbara Ransby reminds us in her brilliant book Making All Black Lives Matter, we often acknowledge the first, but too often ignore the second. Black feminism is the political, intellectual, and moral anchor of our freedom struggle. Black women, and specifically Black feminists, have consistently theorized, organized, and struggled for the most ambitious and inclusive freedom dreams possible. Radical Black feminists have not only struggled to end patriarchy, but to produce a world devoid of all oppression. [...] The sad irony, of course, is that Black women have engaged in these inclusive forms of world-making at the same time they have been placed at the bottom of the social ladder. [...] At the same time that Black women have fought to free all of us, we have continued to fight for a world that prioritizes the lives of cisgendered, Black, heterosexual men. 
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