The Devil You Know

A Black Power Manifesto

De: Charles M. Blow

Narrado por: JD Jackson

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

?The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power

From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, ""a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy"" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy, it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves.

Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a “race book.” But as violence against Black people—both physical and psychological—seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. Drawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South, Charles set out to offer a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality, on their own terms.

So what will it take to make lasting change when small steps have so frequently failed? It’s going to take an unprecedented shift in power. The Devil You Know is a groundbreaking manifesto, proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country. This book is a grand exhortation to generations of a people, offering a road map to true and lasting freedom.

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Familiar topics, but also very enlightening...

I highly recommend this book! Simply put, I was aware, or at least semi informed of most of the topics covered, but thankfully the author added multiple levels of insightful personal experiences, and wrote in a way that was honest, informative, and highly motivating.

This is a great gift of must read knowledge and true concern.

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I felt more enlightenment regarding black history The concept of reverse migration is new to me

very interesting and amazing concept and thought process.

Social Security and uneasy Creek as you plundered upon thought process as options. go in and out of understanding historical content with today's news. about what's going in America today and watching a way of our history lot of things start to make sense of definitely challenging thing critically about being true to ourselves

Wow!

When is enough, enough? When will equality really come? C Blow suggestion to move South make sense. A power revolution thru political numbers. 400 years is enough, throw out “just be patient “ and garner the votes to truly make a difference. At 74 I don’t think I’ll live to see it happen. But I think this is the best path to equality. Mr Blow is NYT best columnist.