The Devil You Know A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

eBook - 2024

New York Times Bestseller: "A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America." —Library Journal A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy, it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves. Acclaimed columnist Charles Blow never wanted to write a "race book." But as violence against Black people—b...oth physical and psychological—seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned... more