Uprising (Diamond and Silk book)

2020 book by Diamond and Silk

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Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? — The Awakening of Diamond and Silk

First edition cover

Author| Diamond and Silk
Country| United States
Language| English
Subjects| Conservatism in the United States
American Left
Political correctness
Conservatism

Publisher| Regnery

Publication date

| August 18, 2020
Media type| Print (hardcover)
Pages| 256
ISBN| 1684510074

Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? — The Awakening of Diamond and Silk is a 2020 non-fiction book by Diamond and Silk. The book was released on August 18, 2020, the publisher is Regnery.[1] This is Diamond and Silk's first book to be published. This book has made it onto Publishers Weekly Hardcover Frontlist Non-Fiction Bestsellers ranked at #17 as of August 28, 2020.[2][3]

## Summary[edit]

Diamond and Silk's first book talks about their personal life, current events, and the Black Lives Matter movement.[4] The book talks about Diamond and Silk switching parties from Democratic to GOP in 2015 and their experiences since then. The book encourages readers and people to be free-thinkers and support who they want to, rather than being pressured into thinking or voting in a certain way. Diamond and Silk describe how they overcame poverty and being shamed by others, and being victors rather than being victims during their lifetime.

## Bribery allegation[edit]

In the book, Diamond and Silk stated that they were offered US$150,000 by an unidentified person to stop supporting Donald Trump and endorse another candidate. Diamond and Silk have called the incident racially motivated; Diamond said: "It's the stereotype that if a black person is doing something, they must be getting paid for it. What they didn't realize is that we knew what the Democrats were about. We knew how the Left operated. We weren't accepting any of it" and Silk added: "None of it. We didn't tell anybody about this. We didn't make it public. We're talking about it right now in our book so that y'all will know what Diamond and Silk have gone through and all of the different things that have come our way, but we continue to stand strong". The alleged bribery attempt was not revealed before the release of the book.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch – The Awakening of Diamond and Silk". Good Reads. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. ^ Diamond and Silk. ""Uprising" is debuting as a NATIONAL BESTSELLER on this week's Publishers Weekly bestseller list. Thank you all for your Love and Support". Twitter. @DiamondandSilk. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
3. ^ "HARDCOVER FRONTLIST NONFICTION". PublishersWeekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
4. ^ a b Bedard, Paul (August 17, 2020). "'Like token blacks': Diamond and Silk offered $150,000 to ditch Trump". Washington Examiner. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

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