![]() ![]() It’s not the people in your lives coming to you and saying, “You need to do better.” It’s not all of the other countless ways in which Black people in this country are funneled into the prison-industrial complex. It’s not the person in your office saying that they’re being discriminated against. It’s hard to know that that’s what it takes to get people to listen. ![]() But it seems like it’s getting this massive response only when we see the horrific, blatant, disturbing murder of a Black man on camera, instead of all of the other times that we’ve been hurt and dismissed and brutalized over the years. This book came out over two years ago, and it was and is a book about doing the work every single day. When my agent called and said, “You’re a New York Times best-seller again,” I just sat there. ![]() Ijeoma Oluo: It’s been really surreal and almost kind of traumatizing in a way. ![]()
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