Friday, August 14 at 7 pm educator/activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn present their new book
Race Course Against White Supremacy at Northtown Books.
White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two American veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days and that it is still very much with us. The discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.
Reactionaries stuck in the 60s conjure Scooby-doo ghosts to chase. But the real William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are fully in the present, fighting on behalf of the disempowered and dispossessed.
-Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
"Having made an extraordinary journey together from Sixties militants to accomplished scholars, Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers bring to the subject of race a special sensibility. Their work is a troubling challenge to white people to
examine, not only the world round them, but their own psyche, their own behavior, and to act accordingly."
-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
UPDATE: Heidi Walters of
The North Coast Journal recently interviewed Bill and Bernardine.
