Allow Me to Retort

A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

Narrated by: Elie Mystal

MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law almost all of the time. Now, instead of talking about this on cable news, Mystal explains why in his first book.

“After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand - quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer....” (Michael Harriot, The Root)

Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past.

Mystal brings his trademark humor, expertise, and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake, and to arm listeners with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of 18th-century White men. The same tactics Mystal uses to defend the idea of a fair and equal society on MSNBC and CNN are in this book, for anybody who wants to deploy them on social media.

You don’t need to be a legal scholar to understand your own rights. You don’t need to accept the “Whites only” theory of equality pushed by conservative judges. You can listen to this book to understand that the Constitution is trash but doesn’t have to be.

©2022 Elie Mystal (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

Makes You Think Hard

Mr Mystal has a brilliant, factual stand on rewriting the US Constitution! A Must read

A must listen

Everyone can benefit from hearing/reading this book. Such an important perspective on the justice system from a Black legal scholar. He takes on the status quo through the lens of history and white power. He narrates with great passion.

Straight no chaser

It is obvious that the author knows the law and history. A great combination and pulls no punches. Very few books I’ve read has gone so deep into the real outcomes that have created the environment we’re in in 2022. Highly recommended if legal matters interest you.

A lot of things I didn't know.

Informative and entertaining. Elie knows his stuff and he's hilarious. Highly recommend especially if uou value social justice.

Never trust the conservative perspective

Great book! I learned so much and came away more knowledgeable on why we must expand the court and apply term limits.