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The president of the National Bar Association and one of the
most distinguished civil rights attorneys working today reflects
on the landmark cases he has battled—including representing
Trayvon Martin’s family—and offers a disturbing look at how
the justice system is used to promote injustice in this memoir
and clarion call as shocking and important as First-Year favorites
Just Mercy and e New Jim Crow.
Shaped by Crump’s experience handling civil litigation matters
in state and federal courts throughout the country, Open Season
reveals the often hidden and systemic injustices minorities
face, and illuminates how discrimination in the courthouse
devastates families and communities. Chronicling some of his most memorable legal battles, Crump makes clear how our system is devised for certain
people to lose and others to win, and, using evidence and facts, exposes how it is legal to
harm—with the intent to destroy—people of color.
Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.
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As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: 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 George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, 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.
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