When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Approached the book with an open mind, and can say its only good for dark humor. Self perpetuating, its another romanticized story of a struggle that only exists in a simple mind with ego distortion . One star for the ghost writter who pinned it.

This is a beautiful and radical book rooted in pain, history, love, and the intersection and interconnection between past and present, global and local, individual and community, idealism and realism, criticism and imagination, and race, class, disability, gender, and sexuality.

This memoir explains why the BLM movement began. It also illustrates that the events that fuel BLM today did not start in 2012 or 2013, but have been happening in some form or another for decades. This book is powerful and a must read for everyone.

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele is a great read. It provides for many the inside of many black lives. The black lives that live in poverty or broken homes is explored here. The material broke my heart because there is a lot of injustice to those who live in these categories defined here. However, it was focused more so on a specific target from one side rather than from every angle. If taken from every angle and every group, it would have provided a fair judgement and accuracy that would have made this a five-star book. But it feel flatfrom that. I understand the hurt and pain this specific group of people go through daily. I wish racial issues were no longer a threat to society but no matter what rules we inforce there will always be some racial injustice with a society. Where there is good there is also evil...we cannot have one without the other, sadly...other than that, Inwould recommend this book to readers. To give them more of the writers' view to this issue. Knowledge is power.

I received this copy from St. Martin's Press. This is my voluntary review.

A very one sided approach to this American social issue. Although it states the struggles of a large portion of the black American, it fails to point out the epidemic of black crime. And the fact that black crime has a direct correlation with police encounters and how each tragic shooting is the result of non compliance. It also fails to point out that other races are also tragically killed by police, and that it is not a "racist" issue. After reading this book, I am still convinced that Black Lives Matter should still be considered a terrorist and hate organization, akin to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ku Klux Klan, Antifa, as well as many other violent domestic terrorist groups that incite turmoil in society. The amount of violent demonstrations, looting, burning of cars, destruction of Starbucks, stores, other private citizens personal property by this terror group known as Black Lives Matter, which can largely be evidenced by a simple google search, are simply ignored.

This powerful book is a good counterpart to Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me" giving the woman's perspective on the same situation. I I wish all pale people would read them to get a sense of what African Americans go through in Amerika. They live in a police state we pale people never experience. Would you want helicopters hovering over your neighborhood? Your kids constantly stopped and searched by police? To be hauled out of bed at 2 am because "there was a robbery in the neighborhood?" Me neither.

I really appreciated the authors honesty and specific events of racism in their lives (and our nation's experience) that led to the forming of Black Lives Matter. They mentioned the monetary motivation behind oppression, but they did not identify the originators and perpetrators of systemic oppression. In my book, Felonism: Hating in Plain Sight, I identify them as "Abusers of Power". In my opinion, all organizations working for social good would make more progress by identifying and eliminating Abusers of Power rather than focusing on the tactics they use (fear, intimidation, lies, etc.)

A very one sided approach to this American social issue. Although it states the struggles of a large portion of the black American, it fails to point out the epidemic of black crime. And the fact that black crime has a direct correlation with police encounters and how each tragic shooting is the result of non compliance. It also fails to point out that other races are also tragically killed by police, and that it is not a "racist" issue. After reading this book, I am still convinced that Black Lives Matter should still be considered a terrorist and hate organization, akin to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ku Klux Klan, Antifa, as well as many other violent domestic terrorist groups that incite turmoil in society. The amount of violent demonstrations, looting, burning of cars, destruction of Starbucks, stores, other private citizens personal property by this terror group known as Black Lives Matter, which can largely be evidenced by a simple google search, are simply ignored.