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4.61 AVERAGE
4.61 AVERAGE
Every time I think I know the depth of Israel’s evil, a new layer is shown
The last chapter on Palestine was such a hard read, but everyone should read it.
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I’m not educated enough to understand all this book says. It makes me want to learn.
"Haunt. You’ve heard me say this word a lot. It is never enough for the reader of your words to be convinced. The goal is to haunt—to have them think about your words before bed, see them manifest in their dreams, tell their partner about them the next morning, to have them grab random people on the street, shake them and say, 'Have you read this yet?'"
Raise your hand if you saw that god awful interview CBS gave Ta-Nehisi Coates a few months ago, was completely blown away at how Coates elegantly responded to bad faith questions (which would have put me in angry tears), and felt inspired to read The Message
Meandering at times but still manages to craft an important message. Across time and borders, TNC warns us about the alluring narratives of empire and conquest. Stories that mythologize land and peoples, that weaken human empathy, that foster hatred and indifference. TNC argues that no one, not even the oppressed, are invulnerable to these systems of power - and these systems can never be tools of liberation.
“Oppressive power is preserved in the smoke and fog, and sometimes it is smuggled in the unexamined shadows of the language of the oppressed themselves.”