"The election of a Black president did not usher us from the shadows of our racist past; rather, it led us down a perilous path and into a decade and a half (and counting) of explicit racial thrashing.” Wesley Walker, author of American Whitelash and The Cost of Progress.
Join us Saturday morning, via Zoom, May 30th (10:30 am to Noon) when we will discuss the above revelatory book, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery. To participate in the conversation, RSVP to this email address.
'That dream has become a nightmare'
No less an expert on racism, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning and How To Be An Anti-racist, succinctly opined, “American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.”
Our hosts for this discussion are racial equity buddies, Braveheart Gillani and Quentin Smith. Both Quentin and Braveheart are immigrants to this country. Braveheart hails from Pakistan, and Quentin from the Bahamas. Braveheart designed the racial equity buddies website!
"In 2008, Barack Obama’s historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be — just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a historical American cycle of racial progress and white backlash.
"In American Whitelash, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery charts the return of this blood-stained trend, showing how the forces of white power retaliated against Obama’s victory — and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump.
"Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping first-hand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is carrying us into ever more perilous territory, how the federal government has failed to intervene, and how we still might find a route of escape."
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