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Ben Crump: Open Season Legalized Genocide of Colored People

Event date: 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

In Open Season, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make headlines, most are personal tragedies suffered within families and communities. Worse, these killings are done one person at a time, so as not to raise alarm. While it is much more difficult to justify killing many people at once, in dramatic fashion, the result is the same—genocide.

Taking on such high-profile cases as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and a host of others, Crump witnessed the disparities within the American legal system firsthand and learned it is dangerous to be a black man in America—and that the justice system indeed only protects wealthy white men.

In this enlightening and enthralling work, he shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slaveowning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system. And all mask the silent and ongoing systematic killing of people of color. 

Open Season is more than Crump’s incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question.

This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary Event which takes place at the Auburn Avenue Research Library. It is free and open to the public. Mr. Crump will sign books which will be provided for sale by Charis Books and More. 

Event address: 
101 Auburn Ave
Atlanta, GA 30303
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People By Ben Crump Cover Image
$26.99
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ISBN: 9780062375094
Published: Amistad - October 15th, 2019

Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.

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