Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir by Stanley Tookie Williams
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Book Summary Author: Stanley Tookie Williams Epilogue: Barbara Becnel Foreword: Tavis Smiley Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-11-13 ISBN: 1416544496 Number of pages: 416 Publisher: Touchstone |
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Book Reviews of the Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Customer Review: Better Than the Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the life story of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the legendary founder of the Crips street gang turned America's foremost street peacemaker. This book greatly expands and clarifies the story told in "Redemption", the excellent cable movie starring Jamie Foxx
"Blue Rage, Black Redemption" is an incredible piece of well-written literature in its own right---notwithstanding the ultimate fate of the author---and it is a damning indictment of a cold, callous society. It describes the unchecked poverty, violence and broken schools of South Central that spawned the Crip phenomenon. And it describes Tookie's Herculean efforts to redeem himself from within the walls of San Quentin.
[The added material in this reprint by Tookie's friend Barbara Becnel is especially welcome in the context of today's ongoing debate over capital punishment in California.]