4.5
We Still Here
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"In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable."
The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare.
In this urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future.
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“Wow! This book was an excellent survey on abolition as well as a time capsule of late 2020 thinking. The beginning focuses a lot on COVID which is always hard for me to read/think about but the last 3/4ths of this book are a really great interview that helps to answer questions regarding race and politics in America.
It’s just over 100 pgs, a super quick read, I would really recommend it!”
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““The challenge before us is to never relent. We cannot let our mission be coopted. We cannot reduce our radical vision to a reformist strategy. We cannot concede our right to reparations. We cannot settle for nicer occupiers or warmer cages. We cannot scale down our dreams. We cannot give up.
We Still Here.
Until victory. Always.”
‘We Still Here’ is an excellent book that thoroughly examines and critiques the U.S.’ police and justice system while also providing praise to the radical ideas emerging from the protests in 2020 as a result of George Floyd’s tragic, yet completely avoidable death. I think this book helps us understand why we struggle so deeply with ideas of abolition and defunding of the police as well as so many other concepts like how COVID-19 has enabled and disabled people in a variety of ways while it also aided in the surfacing of such ideas of abolition and deconstructing of American systems with deep roots that are truly harmful to the progression of our society and communities.”
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