THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE

COMING IN TWO WEEKS

Ian Isidore Smart argues compellingly that white supremacy bears the main burden of guilt in The Gunning Down of Michael Brown. It is because of white supremacy that a young Black man in the United States is twenty-one times more likely to be shot dead by the police than a young white man. White supremacy is the ideology on which our nation, and, indeed, Western civilization itself is founded. Smart cuts to the chase, confronting the dreadful scourge but avoiding the “paralysis of analysis.” The Afrocentric response he presents is the rising up the Black people of the planet to take control of our situation, harkening to Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s counsel, “do for self.”

This book is the perfect sequel to Smart’s Occupying Western Civilization: Debunking the White Supremacist Narrative (first published 2012).