They Can't Kill Us All - Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

Wesley Lowery

Back Bay Books

2017

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-10: 0316312495

Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today.

In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims other victims' families as well as local activists. By posing the question, "What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?" Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs.

Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. They Can't Kill Us All grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both.

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5 (Perfeito)

Indigesto. Precisei de muitas pausas, deixar o livro de lado e intercalar com outras coisas para conseguir terminar. A realidade nua e crua do quanto o racismo ainda é real e mais presente em nossas vidas do que a gente pensa.

Um ótimo trabalho de Wesley Lowery, que também colocou à prova o profissional jornalista precisando escrever e noticiar a dor de tanta gente em meio ao caos.