Stand Your Ground (BOOK REVIEW)
Stand
Your Ground
Black
Bodies and the Justice of God
by
Kelly Brown Douglas
Orbis
Books
Paperback,
$24.00
256
pages
ISBN:
978-1-62698-109-6
Book
Review by Kam Williams
“Why is it becoming
increasingly acceptable to kill unarmed black children? Why are they
so easily perceived as a threat? How are we to keep our black
children safe?
As the mother of a black
male child, I find these to be urgent questions. The slaying of
Trayvon [Martin] struck a nerve deep within me. After Jordan [Davis],
then Jonathan [Ferrell], then Renisha [McBride], I was practically
unnerved.
I knew I had to seek
answers. This book reflects my search for those answers.”
-- Excerpted from the
Prologue (page ix)
It
seems that once a month or so, with painful regularity, another
unarmed black person is gunned down by a white civilian or white
police officer. What is the reason for this escalating epidemic? Is
it really a recent development or merely a long-hidden aspect of
America's social structure that's come to light because of the
profusion of cell phones in circulation among the population?
That's
what Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, as the mother of a black boy, found
herself wondering in the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin. She
also heard President Obama say that, if he had a son, he would look
like Trayvon.
That
made Kelly think, “I DO have a son, and he DOES look like Trayvon.”
So, for her, the crisis was more than a matter of mere rhetorical
speculation. Not wanting her son to become the next statistic, she
heeded an urgent inner call to action.
As
a Professor of Religion at Goucher College, she decided her skills
could best be put to use researching the burgeoning phenomenon. And
the upshot of her research efforts is Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies
and the Justice of God, an enlightening examination of the
deep-seated roots of the racist reasoning relied upon in the course
of snuffing out African-Americans lives so cavalierly.
The
author opens the opus with a history lesson, tracing the source of
the problem back hundreds of years to the birth of “Exceptionalism”
in Anglo-Saxon England. Reserved for whites, that notion enabled
Caucasians to adopt the concept of “Manifest Destiny” that led to
the extermination of Native Americans (relying on the rallying cry
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian”) and to the wholesale
subjugation of Africans as property.
She
sees today's Stand Your Ground law as a logical extension of the
supremacist philosophy that sustained slavery, Jim Crow segregation,
lynching and other institutionalized forms of color-coded oppression.
Apparently, part and parcel of that shameful scheme was a “natural
law theo-ideology” hyper-valuing whiteness while denigrating the
black body as “perpetually-guilty chattel.”
An
iconoclastic cultural critique indicting the doctrine of Manifest
Destiny for the rationalization of a perpetual war on
African-American males.
To
order a copy of Stand Your Ground, visit:
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