Whew! When They Call You a Terrorist, while a smooth read, is hard on the psyche, in a way that presumably underscores what it's like to be Black in America. Police and incarceration, injustice and indifference are part of Patrisse's life from childhood, leaving bodies in their wake and irreparable scars on the survivors, including herself. Still, like her mother, Patrisses is ceaselessly driven to improve life for her family, her community, and eventually the world when she, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi start the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

As with the myth of Rosa Parks as a tired woman who didn't feel like getting up one day, Khan-Cullors, Garza, and Tometi may have happened on a hashtag, but when they did, they were ready. Some of Khan-Cullors most cutting takes

And Columbine hasn't happened yet so we don't yet have the bars and the metal detectors. Because that's what happened in the wake of the horrific school shooting in a town that was mostly white in a school that was mostly white. Black and Brown kids across the country got police in their schools, complete with drug-sniffing dogs, bars on the windows and metal detectors.

and

Who has ever been accountable to Black people

and how about this one, patriots?

License plates are being made in prisons along with 50 percent of all American flags

Note to self about buying American made goods to avoid supporting sweatshops in other countries. Is there a way of knowing which items/companies use prison labor?

In the state of California, a human being is killed by a police officer roughly every 72 hours.
Sixty-three percent of these people killed by police are Black or Latinx.

And finally, here's an idea

All the money put in to suppress a community. We'd need far less to ensure it thrived.

Some sweet things, too, like how Khan-Cullors would share journals with her friends and lovers. She is a late millennial, loving the intimacy of print!