A review by eggbeater
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This memoir is powerful and inspiring and it left me sobbing in places. Patrisse Khan-Cullors writes about her family's struggle with mental health and addiction and the terrible impact that law enforcement made on members who were sick and just needed care, not incarceration and torture. Her story resonated with me because mental illness and addiction runs strongly through my white family and their interactions with police were vastly different. I know the desperation of trying to care for someone who is sick like that through no fault of their own and no one should have the added fear of being afraid for their lives from outside sources. This is where her activism comes from. Seeing Black people treated as if their lives don't matter by the very communities sworn to protect them. I challenge anyone under the misapprehension that the Black Lives Matter movement is a terrorist organization to read this memoir and emerge unmoved by the racial disparity. That she has achieved so much nationwide, and indeed worldwide, for the Black community is very moving.