Got this in San Antonio TX. Great book about the history of Texas and about black people‘s contribution to it, as well as the author experience as a black woman growing up in the state
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Got this in San Antonio TX. Great book about the history of Texas and about black people‘s contribution to it, as well as the author experience as a black woman growing up in the state
pickGripping, infuriating, inspiring, heart-breaking, hopeful.
There's no way I can do justice to the amount of eloquence born out of serious research that this book represents, but I can say that instead of a vague notion of the pop-culture icon identity of these two figures, I am much better acquainted with the historical Malcolm and Martin. 1/?
"...living wage, federally guaranteed income, decent and racially integrated housing and public schools, and a wholesale reconsideration of American foreign and domestic policy..."
Yeah. Sounds like a good idea!!!
Decades old. Still a valid critique. 🤦🏼♂️
Yeah, getting a copy of the source material, writings and speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, is the next thing I need to do.
C'mon Kennedy, action is how you prove you're more invested in civil rights than 'no comment Nixon'.
I wonder if I'd be less surprised about how much prodding King had to do of JFK if my education was American instead of Canadian? 🤨
" 'No Comment' Nixon". Snappy! It's got a nice ring to it. ??
Nineteen. Fifty. One. Martin Luther King Jr. had this figured out in 1951! Capitalism BAD. Just add it to the list of things he was talking about more than 70 years ago that we're still struggling with. 🤦🏼♂️🙄
bailedI love Joel Christian Gill's work, but this just didn't do it for me. It felt like an adaptation from someone way too familiar with the source material; there wasn't a good flow, and it felt like things were glossed over. I would be interested in reading the original text, but I had a hard time with this version.
