In this bonus episode of Bring Receipts we give you an exclusive listen to an unpublished chapter from Brandi's book Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future (available for pre-order now). In this chapter, titled the Stories We Die With, Brandi peels back the story of "America" to reveal the erased histories and unresolved trauma that this country is built on. Brandi explores the founding of American democracy, the construction of race, and even her own family history to show us how each of us is connected to this past.
We release this episode on January 6th, the anniversary of the insurrection that rocked the Capitol a year ago fueled by the lie of a stolen election. Some may reflect on the devastation of that day while others will simply ignore it. That's the moment we're in, polarized and living in different realities. But as Brandi's chapter lays out, this current reality "can't change because they're so deeply rooted in our society, in us, rotting from the inside out." Change means reckoning with the real history of harm, a history of stolen land, slavery and racialized violence.
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