Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story | 
1. Celebrity endorsed? Probably not. Celebrity discussed in such a way that it‘s obvious they read the book? Probably.
2. Where don‘t I get book recommendations?? I read the tagged book because the MC in a book I was reading, was reading it for her book club.
#two4tuesday
“The self-congratulatory popular #account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.”
#account #QuotsyMay19
“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”
#Consequence #QuotsyMarch18
Anothe Litten posted this one recently, do I stacked it. Luckily #playster had it! Listening now. #nonfiction #audiobook
pickOh, this book. Amazing, horrifying, insightful. Its starting point is a the murder of a black man that takes place in 1970. That‘s a jumping-off pint for an examination of racism and the civil rights movement in North Carolina. Some fascinating history, and a lot of I-can‘t-believe-that-actually-happened moments. Important read. I recommend it to everyone.
“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”
“[On May 30, 1970,] The editors [of the Carolina Times, a black newspaper,] noting several beatings and killings by [NC] state troopers, reported dozens of complaints about “brutality committed against blacks by Highway patrolmen.” Middle-class white people, on the other hand, generally regarded the highway patrol as nice men who issued traffic tickets, which could be thrown out if you knew the right lawyer.”
47 years later...here we still are.
“A moderate by temperament and inclination, Coltrane tended to stress the importance of “communication” between the races, as if slavery and segregation had been some terrible misunderstanding. The “race problem,” his calm words suggested, could be solved if the right people were on the committee.”
This is SO good. I‘m so happy I picked it to be my #NorthCarolina read for #usareadingroadtrip.
#setnearwhereyoulive #riotgrams
Oxford, NC is about two hours and some change directly east of me, but this true tale of growing up grappling with racism in the South hit close to home.
My dad basically told me to read this or he would disown me, and I'm so glad I did. This book helped me come to grips with the dichotomy of living in a pleasant little town where the Klan was and is a horrifying and disgusting presence.
"If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be #truth "
I posted an awful book for this prompt earlier, so I wanted to post a good one too. My dad basically said I had to read this or he would disown me, and I'm glad I did. It is an unflinching look as race relations in a town not too far from mine, with Tyson facing the ugly reality of life in the South head on. A great read. #maybookflowers
pickThis is a memoir & a history of the civil rights movement. Tyson's daddy wanted to be a "swinging door" between blacks & whites, explaining the civil rights movement to whites in a way they would find palatable. Tyson is doing the same thing, talking about racism, white supremacy & white privilege to all of us who have grown up on the "poisonous lie" America is built on: that God confers moral superiority based on skin pigmentation.
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As far as I know, this is still the case. Sweet Jesus.
For the #litsybingo challenge, choose a book with a setting less than 100 miles from you. This actually happened in the county where I live.
Regarding the march that followed a homicide in Oxford, NC:
"Atop the wagon sat Willie Mae Marrow, the bereaved widow, visibly pregnant with the dead man's third child, wearing a dark veil and holding one young daughter on her lap while comforting another. 'That was the symbolic part,' Frinks explained. The mule cart echoed the one that had hauled Dr. King's coffin through the streets of Atlanta two years earlier."
#InspiredByMartinLutherKingJr
pickA thorough and insightful (if occasionally meandering) account of murder and the Civil Rights Movement in a small North Carolina town.
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
