On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope was published on September 4th, 2018 by Viking. The book was written by Deray Mckesson. TThe book clarifies how an African American man attempts to uncover how to make an existence where everybody is taking responsibility for accepting and making the world we want to live in through equity,  freedom, and mindset[1].

Summary

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope Book Cover[2]

DeRay Mckesson, a 29-year-old African American activist, teams up with a large number of individuals in protesting the police for the accountability and justice for the Black people in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. The protest makes the Black Lives Matter movement which spread hugely through the web.  Throughout history, it has shown that the public authority can't or not willing to deal with prejudice. Mckesson clarifies how the abuse stays to suffer up to this period and how complex the racial framework exists. He believes that we ought to be making a move to stop the bias that turns out to be clearer nowadays. With the improvement of technology, hope even lights brighter so prejudice can be destroyed and make a better world for future generations with  equal justice and freedom[3].

Black Empowerment

The book invites people to take action to stop racism. Mckesson writes on his involvement with joining a huge number of individuals who protest asking the responsibility and equity to police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. As Mckesson expresses  "Protest is, in its own way, a storytelling”. The protest turns into the first demonstration of the Black Lives Matter movement and a delineation for many demonstrations in other cities. With the improvement of technology particularly Twitter, the rotest and campaign could be found in real-time. This has prevented the authorities in Ferguson and Missouri to make a misinterpretation or phony news. With the platform that has been established, he believes that the civil rights movement can be rallied massively across the world[4].

As the public authority couldn't or reluctant to stop bigotry, he composes that we needed to accomplish the work. He encourages people that hope stays to exist, and confidence ought to be pushed forward to reclaim the assurance. As quoted from the book:

"We can win. And if we do, it will be because more of us understood that this is a system of choices, and we have learned how to build power to make new choices. When they say that power concedes nothing without a demand, they are reminding us that the demand has to create something new-a new power dynamic, a new reality. And hope is the fuel of this demand. Hope is not magic. Hope is work. Let's get to the work."[5].

Racial Discrimination

Mckesson clarifies how the protests  of the civil rights movement  are like particularly for the Black Americans. He portrays that the protest is viewed as an matter  of life and death since they are being sprayed by pepper, smoke bombarded, and shot at with rubber bullets in spite of the peaceful protest Mckesson and others brought[6]. He expresses that there's a double standard to protest in America. Something is distinctive for black people who should try to pose inquiries, and further, for the those  who protest in blackness. Protest in and by black bodies is never considered real, never considered deserving of commitment. It appears that black people have not earned their complains, their complaint is illegitimate that they don't merit compassion or, at last, equity[7].

References

  1. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope. Goodreads. Retrieved January 24 2021
  2. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope Book Cover. Goodreads. Retrieved January 24 2021
  3. On the Other Side of Freedom Penguin Random House. Retrieved January 24 2021
  4. Otis R. Taylor Jr. ‘On the Other Side of Freedom,’ by DeRay Mckesson Datebook. Retrieved January 24 2021
  5. Excerpt: On The Other Side Of Freedom NPR. Retrieved January 24 2021
  6. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM Kirkus Media LLC. Retrieved January 24 2021
  7. On the Other Side of Freedom Quotes Goodreads. Retrieved February 03 2021