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Bezig met laden... Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American Citydoor Wes Moore
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  SqueakyChu | May 18, 2023 |   Moore summarizes his perspectives at the end of the book with a call to action. This book was uniquely fascinating to me because I know a lot about the physical locations and many of the political players. So it is hard for me to really know how a reader outside of the Baltimore metro area would perceive it. The chapters are very, very short, with each one focusing on a different person. This gives the book a fragmented feeling, and I wonder if that might get confusing for some readers. And obviously, there is a political message, and not everyone is going to agree with the conclusions. Moore focuses as much on poverty as he does on racism (which in Baltimore, a city where every leadership position is held by black people makes sense), but his final chapter has an academic tone to it and really doesn't talk about how change can be made when a city with so many murders is an unattractive location for economic development. Baltimore has a terrible reputation, and for a city with so many amazing physical assets and beauty, that is a hurdle that no one seems able to overcome. Post Freddy Gray and the consent decree, the police are policing much less and the murder rate has soared. What is the answer? The city is grappling with these issues as we speak which makes this book so gripping and topical right now. (  ) Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 | fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 | It is a story of the people and is also a story of the city that can serve as a lesson for most American cities. Wes Moore, the author, loves Baltimore. He is an example of someone raised in the city who has thrived and can serve as a shining light. He obviously loves Baltimore but also knows that his success is the exception for many who look like him. The people outlined in the book come from various experiences and have varied experiences. All love Baltimore. But for too many, Baltimore does not love them back. There is a lot of information about police abuse and corruption. There is a lot of information about racism by police and city leaders. But my overall impression was of the people and their experiences. ( ) Nancyjcbs | Sep 24, 2021 |  ) rivkat | Sep 21, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge, and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore is one of Baltimore's most famous sons--a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, White House fellow, and current President of the Robin Hood Foundation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every strata of the city come together: grieving mothers; members of the city's wealthy elite; activists; and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore--all looking to comfort each other, but also looking for answers. Knowing that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could only be found in the city as a whole, Moore--along with Pulitzer-winning coauthor Erica Green--tells the story of the Baltimore uprising. Through both his own observations, and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who's drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who'd spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John DeAngelo, scion of the city's most powerful family and owner of the Baltimore Orioles, who has to make choices of conscience he'd never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history--but also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It is told from the perspective of several people who reacted to the death of Freddie Gray: among them are a black police captain, a white public defender, a black woman whose own brother died at the hands of Baltimore police, and the chairman/CEO of the Baltimore Orioles. All of these accounts are very moving. However, reading this alone will not change a thing about systemic poverty and its consequences unless we, the readers, get involved.
When I first learned about the author, he had been nominated to run for the governor of Maryland. Not knowing anything about him, I read his autobiography, [The Other Wes Moore]. At that time he was the CEO of one of the largest anti-poverty organizations in the country. He is now the governor of Maryland. He is both a black man and a resident of Baltimore. I have so much hope for what he can do to help Baltimore recover from the trauma of Freddie Gray's death. I very much appreciated reading his thoughts in this book. (