... Bailey offers an unflinching perspective about the ongoing dialogue about racism and racial justice in America.

The essays of Issac J. Bailey’s Why Didn’t We Riot? are incisive as they confront the realities of systemic racism in America and in the age of Donald Trump.

... singular voices have arisen that are able to separate the wheat from the chaff to openly speak the truth about the continuous violence perpetrated upon Black people and the rising inequality in Trump’s America. Issac J. Bailey is one such voice. Despite his many accomplishments in a white dominated world, he feels a deep anguish about the mounting abuses African Americans are forced to endure.

In this impassioned if uneven essay collection, South Carolina journalist Bailey (My Brother Moochie) examines racial inequality and injustice in America.

Through a combination of poignant memoir and social and cultural analysis, Bailey tackles of range of hot topics.