TWEETING TRUTH TO POWER: CHRONICLING OUR CAUSTIC POLITICS, CRAZED TIMES, & THE GREAT BLACK & WHITE DIVIDE

A world pandemic and a nationwide rebellion over racial injustice evince a nation thrust into unceasing turmoil. With a rustic consumed by regressive forces, digital platforms would telegraph the rising gulf between a divided citizenry. With a mercurial president utilizing the Twitter megaphone to divide, progressive voices quickly found that social media and social accountability wanted to be braided. For one Black American, bearing witness to the twin contagion of COVID and racism, he quickly found the illness lengthy plaguing America may at the very least be combatted one tweet at a time. Tweeting Reality to Energy is his dynamic chronicle of residing each day via a defining period. A High 20 Finalist on NBC’s Final Comedian Standing, comic Cyrus McQueen embodies the spirit of “The Resistance,” an emboldened group that takes to the Twitter platform to unite fairly than to divide. McQueen shares the non-public and political journey he started in 2016, when he put apart the microphone to get severe about inequality. Exploring his personal painful story alongside the nation’s previous and current, McQueen gives a wealthy, nuanced look into America’s racial legacy. His insightful, layered evaluation gives a singular context to present occasions and the actions they’ve ignited. Be it #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, or #TakeAKnee, Tweeting Reality to Energy is a outstanding, real-time account of tolerating an unprecedented time, together with his expansive account of our caustic politics and historical past evolving into a radical examination of what it means to be a Black American within the twenty first Century.In response to McQueen, the Trump presidency seemingly in a single day ripped aside the incisive work of his predecessor and centuries of resistance, exposing the racial wounds of a rustic as soon as on the mend. As we speak, as ghosts from America’s unresolved previous hang-out our current, McQueen asks us: how far have we actually come as a nation?