Summary of Andre Henry's All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep

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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.

#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world’s reckoning with death-dealing systems of racial oppression.

#3 The ancient Greek word apocalypse means to reveal or to unveil. It was a well-known, deeply political literary genre that used dramatic imagery and symbolic language. John wrote the biblical Apokolypsos to intervene against a rise of flag-waving for the Roman Empire in his community.

#4 I want to clear up the myths that racism is no longer a problem in America, and that we can simply be ourselves and not be discriminated against. I want to encourage Black people to stop being slaves to the white world and its myths.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822505841

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.

#2

The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world’s reckoning with death-dealing systems of racial oppression.

#3

The ancient Greek word apocalypse means to reveal or to unveil. It was a well-known, deeply political literary genre that used dramatic imagery and symbolic language. John wrote the biblical Apokolypsos to intervene against a rise of flag-waving for the Roman Empire in his community.

#4

I want to clear up the myths that racism is no longer a problem in America, and that we can simply be ourselves and not be discriminated against. I want to encourage Black people to stop being slaves to the white world and its myths.

#5

I write this book as a student of nonviolent struggle for social progress. I believe that millions of ordinary, organized, and outraged people will have to plan and execute disruptive, militant, nonviolent campaigns for racial justice until our vision of a racially just society is realized.

#6

As I grew up, I realized that racism was a part of American society, and not just in the South. I began to