I've Had These Conversations With My Sons and One Orter

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I have written this book not as a meditation on race, not as a protestation, but as a plan, a manifesto. The time is at an end for black people begging and pleading, marching and chanting for an equitable stake in that power. The time must come to simply assume it, to use the constitution itself as a vehicle. That's what migrations are about. And so those young people are very open to having this conversation with my own children... i'm interested"

In this week's episode Charles Blow speaks to journalist Dele Olojede about the arguments in his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. He argued that if enough African-Americans move south, the demographic balance in the Southern States will be tipped in favour of Black voters and politicians. His new home state of Georgia – he practises what he preaches and left Brooklyn for Atlanta – recently voted for a Democrat presidential candidate and two Democratic Senate candidates, one of whom became the first Black senator in the state’s history. The growing African-American population in Georgia was pivotal in these votes, Blow believes. To find out more and buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/the-devil-you-know-a-black-power-manifesto-charles-m-blow-subscribers/

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