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jeremysdailyreads 's review for:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
One of my English professors saw me reading this book in the library the other day and said something along the lines of „this book was really powerful in its time [2015] but doesn’t really hold up anymore with what’s going on in the US.“
I finished it and am really struggling to understand what he meant. Maybe he misremembered it, because this book is as powerful and necessary now as it was then. Certainly, at the time, one might have thought that Coates‘s words would stir people „who believe that they are white“ to change themselves. And now, we despair as these people would rather destroy the entire world than have to change themselves.
„The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field of their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.“
Maybe these lines rang with hope in 2015. Maybe white people would be moved and face their struggle. Today they ring with terrible truth as the Dreamers violently lash out against their awakening desperately trying to stay asleep.
Nevertheless this book is still hopeful. It hopes that we could one day be part of a „terrible and beautiful world“ rather than trapped in the Dream.
I finished it and am really struggling to understand what he meant. Maybe he misremembered it, because this book is as powerful and necessary now as it was then. Certainly, at the time, one might have thought that Coates‘s words would stir people „who believe that they are white“ to change themselves. And now, we despair as these people would rather destroy the entire world than have to change themselves.
„The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field of their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.“
Maybe these lines rang with hope in 2015. Maybe white people would be moved and face their struggle. Today they ring with terrible truth as the Dreamers violently lash out against their awakening desperately trying to stay asleep.
Nevertheless this book is still hopeful. It hopes that we could one day be part of a „terrible and beautiful world“ rather than trapped in the Dream.