Ibram X. Kendi Instagram – The other day I sat down @harvardbookstore with Laurence Ralph to discuss his new book SITO: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him. SITO is a beautifully written and riveting book about a teenager known as Sito who was shot to death at nineteen years old in his car in San Francisco. His killer, Julius, was seventeen years old. Five years earlier Julius’s brother had been killed by an acquaintance of Sito. Sito was widely blamed and lambasted in the media, and incarcerated for a time. When he got out, Sito became a prison abolitionist.
Ralph explores the structural and systematic issues that perpetuate youth violence, particularly among youth of color. He documents in intimate detail the lived experiences of youth of color subjected to violence and incarceration and denigration—and the grief of their families. He chronicles the family grief in personal detail. Ralph is the stepfather of Sito’s half-brother. #Sito | Posted on 23/Feb/2024 22:03:46
