The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America, by D. Watkins
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To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: African Americans - particularly young black men - are an endangered species.
Now the country's urban war zone is brought powerfully to life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The author fought his way up on the east side (the "beast side") of Baltimore, Maryland - or "Bodymore, Murderland" as his friends call it - surviving murderous business rivals in the drug trade and equally predatory lawmen. Throughout it all, he pursued his education, earning a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, while staying rooted in his community. When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enough - after the brutal killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody - Watkins was on the streets when the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding hometown with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America.
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America, by D. Watkins- Amazon Sales Rank: #20725 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-10-15
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 254 minutes
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Great insightful book - Read the Foreward to know if this is your cup of tea or not By Johnnie Jones The flow of this book isn't linear in anyway. If you are looking for a book that labels out the problems of Black America in a traditional format, then this book isn't for you. The foreward of the book even warns readers of what they were about to read. Reading this book dives to depths that "The Wire" could even reach because it allows your mind to draw and visualize things.BTW, I respect when people don't like books or products, but I don't respect reviews they are of the "this book is trash" without telling me why. It just looks petty in the age of internet anonymity. Some people WILL be turned off by the books first 2-3 pages because they don't want to read another viewpoint they don't agree with, but if you get past that, you will be dropped into a dark, depressing, but hopeful world.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Read this now!! By atiyya mubdi-bey The Beast Side is an honest and raw account of the daily lives of an entire generation of Black Americans who are coming of age in poor socioeconomic conditions. Watkins' book will resonate with one of many groups who have long been voiceless in our country, and educate those whose only encounter with the types of characters in this book came courtesy of HBO's "The Wire". A short but poignant read, this book should be on the shelves of anyone who is interested in learning or reflecting on what being Black and poor in America is about.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A MUST READ!!! By Sakia Taylor I completed this book in 3 days. I couldn't put it down.In the book D. Watkins talks about his experiences growing up in East Baltimore. One thing that stood out to me was that every story sounded like a story from my own personal life. Although this book is written from D's personal experience I felt like it was written from my personal experience - in some ways. I guess he was writing, in my opinion, from the Black experience.I related to so many incidents in this book - I would recommend it to everyone.
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