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400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Tue, Sep 05

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400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: Men We Reaped: A Memoir
400 Years Of Racism Book Discussion: Men We Reaped: A Memoir

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Sep 05, 2023, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Online via Zoom

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Our 400 Years of Racism reading & discussion series continues with Men We Reaped.  

We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." --Harriet Tubman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were…

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