Black people see the horrors for what they are–they sometimes agonize over them. Whether race is entirely tied to the ability to see the monsters for who they really are is nebulous, but if it is, this is not too dissimilar from how aggressions – both macro and micro – perpetrated on Black people aren’t seen or acknowledged by some. In the book, only people described as coming from Black ancestry can see the Ku Klux for the eldritch horrors that they are, while everyone else simply sees them as human. With great control, the story moves these characters through an array of dynamic romances, grief, witty banter, and impeccably readable spectacles with skillful originality that sets a new standard for novellas. Joining her in that endeavour is the maverick Sadie-the proficient Chef–and the wise, humorous Nana Jean. Thankfully, the story doesn’t follow them, but instead focuses on Maryse: A Black woman with plentiful bravery, loyalty, and a powerful drive to destroy the KKK. The premise is that the Ku Klux are incapable of rehabilitation, a sort of lost cause bred and deformed by festering hate, while the Klan are vile humans who still have room to stop their hate and brutality. The KKK is separated by two types of beings: the Klan, who look like normal people clouded by ignorance and baseless fear against those different from them, and the Ku Klux: creepy, Lovecraftian monsters who prowl, scavenge, and inflict pain to Black people. Through sorcery, Griffith has harnessed the hate inflamed by Birth of a Nation to bolster the KKK to upsetting heights. Griffith’s 1915 film Birth of a Nation has recently jolted racism with a ferocity in which the KKK has made a resurgence. The story takes place in a world where D.W. It shows that it’s the anger of Black bodies rising up and fighting against the unjust in just ways that is the strongest way to dismantle the cruel illogicality of hate. Somehow, with the word count of a novella, Ring Shout manages to demarcate anger and hate, showing the necessity for the former and the malevolence of the latter. That’s because hate is too slow-it festers like mold until its subject is a monster without the logical capacity to form a cogent thought.
The propulsive plot, fiery action, and themes that are layered at such light-speed that its quick but potent inclusions is almost invisible, could only be done with writing fueled by anger. Ring Shout was written with anger, not hate.
Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter.…
All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk.
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