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Allow Me to Retort
- A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
- Narrated by: Elie Mystal
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law almost all of the time. Now, instead of talking about this on cable news, Mystal explains why in his first book.
“After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand - quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer....” (Michael Harriot, The Root)
Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past.
Mystal brings his trademark humor, expertise, and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake, and to arm listeners with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of 18th-century White men. The same tactics Mystal uses to defend the idea of a fair and equal society on MSNBC and CNN are in this book, for anybody who wants to deploy them on social media.
You don’t need to be a legal scholar to understand your own rights. You don’t need to accept the “Whites only” theory of equality pushed by conservative judges. You can listen to this book to understand that the Constitution is trash but doesn’t have to be.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-08-22
Excellent insight with a dash of snarky humour
Great insight into how the US constitution is explicitly interlinked with a white, rich patriarchy and how the government is structured to protect that power to this day. Elie pulls no punches and narrates with his trademark snark in a blend of seriousness and dark humour that works extremely well for me.
Highly recommend it to anyone who wants an overview of how the constitution is both used and misused to preserve power in the hands of a few historically privileged groups.
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- Moneenroe
- 29-03-22
Exceptional.
Highly entertaining and massively informative. Every law student would benefit from this book. Every non- white supremacist would enjoy reading it or listening on Audible.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-06-23
Possibly the best audiobook I've ever listened to
This is one of the best audiobook performances I've ever heard, let alone the content, which is riveting, powerful, insightful, and written in a truly engaging style.
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- Ruth Mitchell
- 13-10-22
Provocative
A great read if you’re interested in learning more about the constitutional framing, structure and function of the SC. Lots of snark on the side. It is a book that conservative voters need to read because his arguments could move the conversation (among the electorate) forward; but his unapologetically partisan position and gleeful pwning of republicans will render this almost impossible.
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