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lizzie_wann 's review for:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quite a compelling read. It was deeply personal to the author as he writes to his son about his experience, how his blackness informed and shaped his experience and how it limited it, in a way, as well. There were heart wrenching details and eye-opening revelations that, I'm finding, are not revelatory. Black people and people of color have been saying these things for years, and some (white) people are perhaps only just starting to truly hear it and process it, and figure out ways to dismantle the fear that he felt as he grew up, what he doesn't want his son to feel, but who feels something else as he sees unarmed Black men shot by police and then nothing happens to the police. It's a different feeling. It was a brief read, and I will probably read it again.