Description
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Joness viral video How Can We Win
So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didnt like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?
When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Joness damningand stunningly succinctanalysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutionsthose restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselvesthe most valuable asset we havein the fight against a system that is still rigged.
Author: Kimberly Jones
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781250848833
Language: English
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