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Die Herkunft der Angst

Heute gehen viele Menschen weltweit erneut gegen Rassismus und Polizeigewalt gegen PoC-Menschen auf die Straße. Staatliche Willkür prägen das Bewusstsein der schwarzen Community in den USA. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, eine der Mitbegründerinnen der #blacklivesmatter-Bewegung beschreibt in dem gleichnamigen Buch, wie die Morde an Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin oder Eric Garner, an Sandra Bland, Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey oder Shelly Hilliard (#SayHerName) dazu beitrugen, dass ihre Generation das Schweigen über die Gewalt bricht, der sie täglich ausgesetzt ist. #georgefloyd Read the full article

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When They Call You a Terrorist- A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele with a forward by Angela Davis.

This memoir told in two parts is by far the most powerful book I have read in years and is nominated to be on the February Indie Next list. Already from just posting this book on both this blog and instagram I have had ignorant and hateful comments which just proves even louder the absolute need for this book to exist and for these voices to be heard by all right now!

I went in to reading this book thinking it would be written from a complete place of anger and I am now ashamed that I had that pre-exsisting bias because it was far from what I found wrapped around every word in these pages.  This memoir is a call for immediate action and understanding but it is written from a place of love.  As stated before this is a memoir in two parts, the first being the life of Patrisse Khan-Cullors from her childhood growing up in L.A., the other being the story of the BLM movement and how it is more important now than ever.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors has a very powerful and moving way of writing that not only pieces together how current events connect to sins of the past, but how we as people not black or white but humans need to continue to remain outraged and shocked at the mistreatment and murders of Black lives in order to ever have any hope of stopping it. In her memoir she focuses on the war on gangs, the war on drugs, and most importantly the corruption of the prison/incarceration system is when it comes to black America. If you need an example there are black grandmothers serving live sentences for nonviolent drug offenses while Brock Turner a white male who was convicted of raping a woman only got 3 months because the judge said he couldn’t handle jail.  I guess Brock could only handle ruining the woman’s life who he raped. Patrisse has many personal stories in her memoir that highlight how everything has led to her calling of being an activist for Black rights. Among the most disturbing and illuminating of those stories are those of her brother who instead of getting treatment for mental illness received brutal abuse at the hands of the LA police and prison systems for years.  

I can’t say enough how this is a must read book for next year when it comes out on January 16th. You will be moved. You will be outraged. You will be inspired. You will question everything you thought you knew. 

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