Amanda Raine

disappointing

Revisado: 06-13-21

The author is an amazing talented writer and fantastic story teller. As a person who works full time with the homeless, addicted, judicially involved, I had really high hopes to hear a meaningful story of redemption and love. He tells his story well and even flirts with accountability a times but always seems to blame his consequences on "whiteness" and glorify his "blackness" which comes across as contradictory when much of the abuse he endured came from his black community is the fault of "white supremacy". In fact it feels like every problem he ever had was due to white supremacy down to his father's abuse probably driven by traumatic brain injuries endured as a child. That too was the fault to white supremacy. I was hoping to see more love than rage. paradoxically, he seems to struggle with his mother's privilege looking suspiciously similar to his father's blackness oppression. His distain for accountability and law enforcement is clear and like many pantomimes the outrage for the injustice of blacks being 13% of the population and 25% who get killed by police, but appears comfortably complacent with that same 13% representing almost two thirds of the total homicide victims. Wringing his hands publicly over the 3% of homicide victims killed by police and focusing his rage at that issue not the 97% that were mostly killed by other young black men. sadly we watch the homicide rate skyrocketing and the wholesale slaughter of our young black youth by us, but blame it on something else. I would still read/listen to him again because he is so talented.

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