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A review by asphodelic
AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America by Lynda Lopez
QUOTES:
"It shouldn't be surprising that a culture founded on genocide and forced assimilation would consider a woman of color's refusal to mispronounce her own name for white people's benefit an act of defiance. American who demand every name be made easy for them resent the bit of effort it takes to just listen harder. They feel entitled to a comfort made only possible by oppressing others." - Natalia Sylvester
"When it comes to identity, black Latinos tend to choose nation over race, not least because blackness in the United States isn't exactly advantageous. If you're a political or public figure, being black automatically puts you in the crosshairs of conservatives, who are always triggered by race..." - Erin Aubry Kaplan
"This isn't about agreeing with her stances on all these issues. I know I don't, This is about understanding how revolutionary it is to have someone who looks like us, who shares out history and our expansive underrepresented culture, speaking to power. And money-boring, scary money-is the key to leveling the playing field. AOC knows that. Now millions more oef us are getting to know and see that, too." - Carmen Rita Wong
"The millennial generation has often been criticized for "hashtag activism" because some feel that they post about critical isues-from racism and police brutality to sexual assault and inequality-without actually having skin in the game. President Obama made headlines when he said that today's callout culture is "not activism." - Mariana Atencio
"Instead [AOC] was someone who became outraged as she saw a small class of people becoming ever more rich while working people in Queens and the BRonx could not afford housing or health care. AOC has been quite explicit that by "socialism" she means "worker power," not "government ownership." - Nathan J. Robinson
"...Trump manages to absolve the USA of any wrongdoing and "others" AOC, a citizen..., by telling her and the other women of color that they do not get to have a say in what other straight white cis men like him built." - Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
"...the idea that [BIPOC] must "go back to our countries" when we seek to improve the country we call home is xenophobia. Trump is implying that is we don't look like them then we must bot be American. But the USA would not be the USA without immigration, and let's not forget that the white people of this country are really just land-grabbers who stole from the brown indigenous people who ruled the Americas long before white men came." - Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
"It shouldn't be surprising that a culture founded on genocide and forced assimilation would consider a woman of color's refusal to mispronounce her own name for white people's benefit an act of defiance. American who demand every name be made easy for them resent the bit of effort it takes to just listen harder. They feel entitled to a comfort made only possible by oppressing others." - Natalia Sylvester
"When it comes to identity, black Latinos tend to choose nation over race, not least because blackness in the United States isn't exactly advantageous. If you're a political or public figure, being black automatically puts you in the crosshairs of conservatives, who are always triggered by race..." - Erin Aubry Kaplan
"This isn't about agreeing with her stances on all these issues. I know I don't, This is about understanding how revolutionary it is to have someone who looks like us, who shares out history and our expansive underrepresented culture, speaking to power. And money-boring, scary money-is the key to leveling the playing field. AOC knows that. Now millions more oef us are getting to know and see that, too." - Carmen Rita Wong
"The millennial generation has often been criticized for "hashtag activism" because some feel that they post about critical isues-from racism and police brutality to sexual assault and inequality-without actually having skin in the game. President Obama made headlines when he said that today's callout culture is "not activism." - Mariana Atencio
"Instead [AOC] was someone who became outraged as she saw a small class of people becoming ever more rich while working people in Queens and the BRonx could not afford housing or health care. AOC has been quite explicit that by "socialism" she means "worker power," not "government ownership." - Nathan J. Robinson
"...Trump manages to absolve the USA of any wrongdoing and "others" AOC, a citizen..., by telling her and the other women of color that they do not get to have a say in what other straight white cis men like him built." - Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
"...the idea that [BIPOC] must "go back to our countries" when we seek to improve the country we call home is xenophobia. Trump is implying that is we don't look like them then we must bot be American. But the USA would not be the USA without immigration, and let's not forget that the white people of this country are really just land-grabbers who stole from the brown indigenous people who ruled the Americas long before white men came." - Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez