Get Your Knee Off Our Necks!: Essays on Race in America

Isaac Madison's "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks!" offers a powerful and unflinching examination of race in America, arguing that white racism is the root cause of the problems faced by Black communities. Drawing on historical context from slavery and Jim Crow to modern-day systemic inequalities, Madison challenges common narratives and directly confronts the denial, gaslighting, and "whitelash" that impede racial progress. Through personal anecdotes, detailed research, and sharp critiques of figures like Booker T. Washington and modern conservative commentators, the book asserts that true equality demands a reckoning with America's racist past and present, advocating for reparations and systemic change rather than complacency.