Bailey (Author), JD Jackson (Narrator), & 1 more 64 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Batten Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College. Why Didnt We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland Audible Audiobook Unabridged Issac J. Issac Bailey is an award-winning journalist and the James K. Author Issac Bailey has been in the trenches of the struggle against White. His new book, “Why Didn’t We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland,” speaks to and for the millions of Black and Brown people throughout the United States who were effectively pushed back to the back of the bus in the Trump era by a media that prioritized the concerns and feelings of the white working class and an administration that made white supremacists giddy, and explains why the country’s fate in 2020 and beyond is largely in their hands. Why Didnt We Riot: A Black Man in Trumpland. He is also the author of My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South (Other Press, 2018).

South Carolina–based journalist Issac Bailey joins us to reflect on a wide range of complex, divisive topics-from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort-which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd’s killing.īailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private life, which included an eighteen-year stint as a member of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church. Issac Bailey, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, is a journalist, race relations seminar creator and facilitator, and the author of Why Didn’t We Riot A Black Man in Trumpland (Other Press, October 2020).

Why Didn't We Riot? by Issac J. Bailey