The Talk - "You'll always be a danger to them." - Darrin Bell

Darrin is six years old when his mother refuses to give him the water gun of his dreams, as realistic as those of his white friends. It is the moment she chooses for "the talk", the discussion, which has become ritual in the United States, that racialized people must have with their children, to warn them: all their lives, they will be considered a danger by white people; all their lives, they will be in danger of death because of the color of their skin.
 From this opening scene, a trajectory through the prism of violence and racial discrimination is drawn. Until the day when, having become a father, Darrin himself has to have the talk with his six-year-old son.
 With a strong sense of observation and narration, and a good dose of humor and poetry, Darrin Bell makes eminently political issues sensitive through this terribly effective autobiographical graphic novel.
 360 pages
 Author : Darrin Bell
 Translation: Cécile Hermellin