kittykate99 's review for:

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.0

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This book collects essays that Coates had previously published in the Atlantic, prefaced with a brief introduction to each one. Coates examines black life since the beginning of our nations' history up to the present and he spares nothing and no one in his assessments of how little progress we have made in civil rights and equality. If you are interested in learning more about power and privilege and how we need to understand how it has shaped our history before we will ever be able to move on from it.