Genocide--the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.
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As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make headlines, most are personal tragedies suffered within families and communities. Worse, these killings are done one person at a time, so as not to raise alarm. While it is much more difficult to justify killing many people at once, in dramatic fashion, the result is the same--genocide.
Taking on such high-profile cases as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and a host of others, Crump witnessed the disparities within the American legal system firsthand and learned it is dangerous to be a black man in America--and that the justice system indeed only protects wealthy white men.
In this enlightening and enthralling work, he shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slaveowning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system. And all mask the silent and ongoing systematic killing of people of color.
Open Season is more than Crump's incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question.
--Reginald Hudlin, writer, director, and producer
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 10/15/2019
ISBN: 9780062375094
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2017
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2018 pg. 69
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019 pg. 66
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 112
