Allow me to retort : a Black guy's guide to the Constitution / Elie Mystal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mystal, Elie, author.

Contributor:

Mystal, Elie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

African Americans.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Csorna : PublishDrive, 2022.

New York : The New Press, [2023]

System Details:

audio file

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface: Originalism Aborts Progress

Introduction

1: Canceling Trash People Is Not a Constitutional Crisis

2: Bigotry Is Illegal Even If You've Been Ordered to by Jesus

3: Everything You Know About the Second Amendment Is Wrong

4: Stop Frisking Me

5: Attack Dogs Are Not Reasonable

6: Why You Can't Punch a Cop

7: Stopping Police Brutality

8: It Says What It Says

9: The Taking of Black Land

10: A Jury of Your White Peers

11: It's Not Unusual to Be Cruel

12: The Most Important Part

13: Conservative Kryptonite

14: Reverse Racism Is Not a Thing

15: The Rule That May or May Not Exist

16: The Abortion Chapter

17: You Know This Thing Can Be Amended, Right?

18: The Right to Vote Shall Be Abridged All the Damn Time

19: What If Your Vote Actually Didn't Matter?

20: Abolish the Electoral College

21: The Final Battle

Epilogue

Notes

Copyright.

Participant:

Narrator: Elie Mystal.

Notes:

Unabridged.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Mystal, Elie Allow Me to Retort

ISBN:

9781620978139

OCLC:

1378933487