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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
5.0
Think about how and what you learned about the constitution as far back as you can recall: that it is the foundation of our country? That it is why ‘we are the freest nation in history’? That it is a living document that can be amended to reflect changes in the world?
Probably not that it was assembled by white supremacist slave-owning misogynist men who didn’t think that black people were equally human to whites, who thought of women as property, and who wanted to ensure that their vision of government wasn’t infected by the will of the general population, right?
But that is reality - American is a nation founded on genocide and extreme racism by people not opposed to royalty but just to hereditary monarchy from across an ocean. And that means that the best we could ever do is moderate the extremist white male supremacy that infests every legal document from the first 150 years of our country.
This book gets at the nitty gritty of what is wrong and why - and what can & can’t be done about it. It is not easy to hear - but it is essential that we all listen. If you are frustrated with our country and don’t believe that MLK’s “arc of history curves towards justice” will survive the fascism movement represented by the SCOTUS, federalist society, ‘moms for liberty’, and other extremist terror organizations … then you NEED to read this. We CAN save the country, but not the way things are currently done.
Probably not that it was assembled by white supremacist slave-owning misogynist men who didn’t think that black people were equally human to whites, who thought of women as property, and who wanted to ensure that their vision of government wasn’t infected by the will of the general population, right?
But that is reality - American is a nation founded on genocide and extreme racism by people not opposed to royalty but just to hereditary monarchy from across an ocean. And that means that the best we could ever do is moderate the extremist white male supremacy that infests every legal document from the first 150 years of our country.
This book gets at the nitty gritty of what is wrong and why - and what can & can’t be done about it. It is not easy to hear - but it is essential that we all listen. If you are frustrated with our country and don’t believe that MLK’s “arc of history curves towards justice” will survive the fascism movement represented by the SCOTUS, federalist society, ‘moms for liberty’, and other extremist terror organizations … then you NEED to read this. We CAN save the country, but not the way things are currently done.