Book Talk: We Quit America: Our Exit from a Country Designed to Kill Black People
Mon, Oct 28
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Join authors Yanique Redwood and Ronnie Galvin for an engaging discussion about their upcoming book! The event will be moderated by Nkechi Taifa. Don’t miss this opportunity to dive into their insights and inspirations!
Time & Location
Oct 28, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the Book
We Quit America: Our Exit from a Country Designed to Kill People is part memoir, part social critique, and part how-to. It is our story of quitting after years of working on the American project, an experiment in democracy that so far has failed more than it has succeeded, especiallyfor Black people, Native Americans, and other groups deemed as inferior to white people. We are not shy about our critique of the United States of America. We believe that some Black people ought to find their way to countries in Africa or at least to nations where Black people and people of color are the majority. Not because those nations are perfect but because they can give us space away from America’s virulent form of racism so we can catch our breath and design the life we deserve. We hope that Black people who are already convinced that they should leave…