Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Yusef Salaam
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Pan
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Yusef Salaam
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Despite this horrific miscarriage of justice, Salaam's compelling memoir is one of astounding warmth.
... powerful.
It’s easy to see how Salaam became a motivational speaker, writing throughout the book of transforming traumatic experiences: 'you must take the emotions that come up in your reflection and move that energy into something purposeful.' An uplifting and hopeful book about a terrible miscarriage of justice and the lives impacted..
Punctuating his prose with memorable images, Salaam denounces a system of injustice built on the backs of Black people, demonized as born criminals. Remarkably, though Donald Trump himself made his first foray into politics on the backs of the Five, the author mentions him by name just once in a book rich in self-knowledge and compassion.