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4.43 AVERAGE
4.43 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I think this is perhaps the most important book I have ever read. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes with such concise, cutting and powerful prose. I wanted to imprint all his elegant words in my brain forever. Can’t wait to read more of his work and the next piece he comes out with.
Incredibly important to read, to understand the history of the age we are living in and the injustices happening right now. This book has left a slight hope for a better world and a better America, but I’m just thankful we have people spreading the truth.
The only slight critique would be the lack of discussion on black women in America. I can see some reviews pointing this out also.
!!! Must read !!!
Incredibly important to read, to understand the history of the age we are living in and the injustices happening right now. This book has left a slight hope for a better world and a better America, but I’m just thankful we have people spreading the truth.
The only slight critique would be the lack of discussion on black women in America. I can see some reviews pointing this out also.
!!! Must read !!!
When I mentioned to people that I was reading this, they said (endearingly) that I was “really libbing out.” Though I’m about 7 years late to this book (and even later to the essays within it), I found it incredibly important and profound.
Acknowledging the privilege in saying this, I think it can be easy to forget sometimes just how powerful white supremacy is, and how it is not just some relic of the distant past. It has evolved into something less sinister, yes, but its grip on White America is not as weak as most might like to think. These essays were an important reminder of that.
Most Americans strongly disagree with the idea of providing reparations for slavery and racial discrimination. I think “The Case for Reparations” is an essential read for anyone who even slightly considers there might be systemic racism in this country. This essay, and many of the others, offer irrefutable evidence that the disparities facing Black Americans are overwhelming and exist by design. Reparations should be framed not as a “punishment” for white people who are “innocent” of the crimes of their ancestors, but as an acknowledgement that Black people are still facing the repercussions for simply existing.
Important read!
Acknowledging the privilege in saying this, I think it can be easy to forget sometimes just how powerful white supremacy is, and how it is not just some relic of the distant past. It has evolved into something less sinister, yes, but its grip on White America is not as weak as most might like to think. These essays were an important reminder of that.
Most Americans strongly disagree with the idea of providing reparations for slavery and racial discrimination. I think “The Case for Reparations” is an essential read for anyone who even slightly considers there might be systemic racism in this country. This essay, and many of the others, offer irrefutable evidence that the disparities facing Black Americans are overwhelming and exist by design. Reparations should be framed not as a “punishment” for white people who are “innocent” of the crimes of their ancestors, but as an acknowledgement that Black people are still facing the repercussions for simply existing.
Important read!
I really loved this collection of Coates edits and thoughts, ahead of sharing one of his prominent articles from each year of the Obama era. It's a really neat way to tell this history and hear from Coates himself about how his views have changed or shifted due to time and hindsight.
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Loved the book. Ta-Nehisi Coates communicates many of the fears and assumptions that black Americans have felt for years. The kitchen table talk that we have in regards to race and class is what this book is about, but nuanced. The type of poetic, gritty, and objective journalism that he does is
what makes reading the articles so powerful and haunting at the same time.
what makes reading the articles so powerful and haunting at the same time.
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
as much as this took me forever to read, it really wasnt forever i kept just pausing this book. I also feel like it was for good reason bcs as much as this book educated me there were things that i had to look up and get more familiar with to fully understand the lesson and honestly i think everyone should’ve read this one back in 2020 reading at it at this time felt like a much bigger punch to the gut bcs now its so much more telling. I will say I really enjoyed the way Ta-Nehisi Coats wrote this. I have alot of feelings over this one but its more so bcs of my own personal views, thoughts, opinions, experiences when it comes to politics in this country. I dont know how to rate this one so ill sit on that but yes.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced