This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism - Hardcover

Don Lemon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316265543 ISBN 13: 9780316265546

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2021

Synopsis

In an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, Lemon shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0316265543
• ISBN 13: 9780316265546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 213