Thread by @quinncy

For those who asked, here is the book (feat: Non-janky highlighter)

https://twitter.com/quinncy/status/1450831921798287366

Here is the first page. I will give you no more but lie to me and tell me you don’t want @ElieNYC’s book.

Pre-order it.

You have no idea how mad I am at you, @ElieNYC.

Three chapters in and I CANNOT GIVE THIS TO EVERY PERSON I KNOW FOR CHRISTMAS THE FUCK.

It’s so, so, SO good.

“We live in the most violent industrialized nation on Earth because too many dudes can’t admit they still need a night-light.”

OH, WE ARE HIGHLIGHTING THAT.

I am restraining myself from quoting every damn paragraph for fear of running up against copyright infringement but @ElieNYC IMPLORE THE HOUSE TO PUSH UP YOUR PUB DATE.

“But before his life as a racist spokesperson for Donald Trump, Giuliani was an unhinged crisis performer who used his time as mayor of NYC to spout ridiculous theories and threaten Black and brown people.”

@ElieNYC has reached the Fourth Amendment.

“Police are the only people whose own cowardice and hysteria can be used to justify an objective misreading of the facts.”

I literally just read that six times, staring off into space after each reading. I want every high school American History class to have this book.

@Alyssa_Milano (you glorious jailbird) you NEED this book.

“We don’t have to change one system to address police brutality, or 50; instead there are over 3,000 county sheriffs and police commissioners in this country, and each one of them retains a level of autonomy to determine how much cops are allowed to beat Black people.”

@ElieNYC HOW IS EVERY SENTENCE IN THIS BOOK SO DAMN GOOD.

“Your Constitutional rights aren’t supposed to change depending on whether you know they exist” @ElieNYC writes and upon reading these words I atomize from the truth in them,

And now…BACK TO @ElieNYC’s BOOK!

“At the dark heart of making the 6th Amendment meaningful in any way for Black people lies an argument that white people, even white liberals, are reluctant to make; white jurors cannot sit in impartial judgement of Black people.”

This continues, brilliantly.

@ElieNYC ends this passage with “If I could have one white superpower, it would be the fucking nerve of these people.”

Our nation began from a poisoned tacit understanding that for this experiment to work, some humans had to be worth nothing.

Mystal never agreed to that.

“This is what originalists do when confronted with an area of law that was originally vague or open for interpretation; they make some shit up.”

@ElieNYC, This is so beautiful that were I a Labrador retriever, this would be a very dead squirrel and I would roll in it.

“We still have a white supremacist’s Constitution - we just have to count Black people as full people for the purposes of congressional representation, is all. Not much has changed.”

@ElieNYC, that I cannot buy this for everyone this holiday season fills me with rage LOOKING AT YOU @thenewpress.

I just restrained myself from quoting or photographing the next paragraph, as I am afraid of running afoul of the publishing house. But oh, DAMN.

Every single person needs this book.

I was about to pick a sentence of this but then realized it’s just a big, glorious, single thought. @ElieNYC gives me warm Capra-feelings in this paragraph, if Frank Capra was fucking justifiably outraged. Preorder this book.

In LA?

Preorder from @vromans.