1/ Wow, didn’t know this was made into a movie, thanks @sacca for funding & posting.
Bryan’s voice is powerful - this is the most moving book I’ve read in recent years.
It’s our generation’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, except it’s a true story and still happening.https://twitter.com/sacca/status/1267880410186317825 …
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2/ Highly recommend reading the book to let his story and more sink in. It’s a good starting point to understanding the black experience of America. And how our criminal justice system undermines its purported goal of safer communities: https://www.amazon.com/dp/081298496X/ My fav quotes:
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3/ “We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear & anger can make us vindictive & abusive, unjust & unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy.”
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4/ “Proximity has taught me some basic & humbling truths, including this vital lesson: each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor & incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”
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5/ “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?”
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6/ “You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance. You have to get close.”
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7/ Several of my close friends have dedicated their lives to
#RestorativeJustice. Learn more about how this movement is changing the way we deal with violence in our communities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice … And donate to@eji_org’s work here: https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread
8/ Also worth noting that SF’s new DA @chesaboudin was elected partially on this. It takes time to turn the ship though, especially when the controls rest in multiple hands.
https://sfdistrictattorney.org/restorative-justice …
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