Marc Lamont Hill Talks Trumpism, 2020 & 'We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility'

“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you more likely to die. Your proximity to death makes you disposable.”

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill whose new book, "We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility" was recently released.

Hill spoke with Roland Martin about his new book, the "third reconstruction", the impact of Trumpism, the problem with polling, the perceived impact of AOC on the 2020 election, Black Lives Matter protests, the optics of "defund the police" and a myriad of other topics that directly impact the African American community.

From Marc Lamont Hill:

"The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare.

In this urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the “pre-existing conditions” that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future."

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