Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Curtis Bunn, "Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America"
English | ISBN: 1538737825 | 2021 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1538737825 | 2021 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.
For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and intrapersonal changes that followed. It is a simple story, wherein white America finally witnessed enough brutality to move their collective consciousness. The only problem is that it isn't true. George Floyd was not the first Black man to be killed by police—he wasn’t even the first to inspire nation-wide protests—yet his death came at a time when America was already at a tipping point.