A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's
quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by
literary talent, D. Watkins To many, the past 8 years under
President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American
political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when
seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in
Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri, happened; and then South
Carolina hit the headlines; and then Baltimore blew up, it was hard
to find any evidence of a new post-racial order. Suddenly the
entire country seemed to be awakened to a stark fact: African
American men are in danger in America. This has only become clearer
as groups like Black Lives Matter continue to draw attention to
this reality daily not only online but also in the streets of our
nation's embattled cities. D. Watkins. fought his way up on the
eastside (the "beastside") of Baltimore, Maryland-or "Bodymore,
Murderland," as his friends call it. He writes openly and
unapologetically about what it took to survive life on the streets
while the casualties piled up around him, including his own
brother. Watkins pushed drugs to pay his way through school,
staying one step ahead of murderous business rivals and equally
predatory lawmen. When black residents of Baltimore finally decided
they had had enough-after the brutal killing of
twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody-Watkins
was on the streets as the city erupted. He writes about his
bleeding city with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds
along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of
America. In this new paperback edition, the author has also added
new material in a section title "Bonus Tracks", responding to the
rising tide of racial resentment and hate embodied by political
figures like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as well as the heartbreaking
killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and the impact
this has had on issues of race in America. This book is essential
reading for anyone trying to make sense of the chaos of our current
political moment.
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