A review by kingserasera
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

5.0

4.5 stars! I’ve been wanting to read this one since I heard an interview on Trevor Noah’s podcast. Ta-Nehisi Coates has written some of the most beautiful and memorable things I’ve ever read and there are some sections in here I’ll be thinking about for a very, very long time about colonialism and racism and the way words, journalism, and writing are tools of propaganda and resistance. I’m so glad I listened to this as an audiobook, read by the author. Hearing his voice articulate his own words was wonderful. I think the only thing that takes away 0.5 stars is the fact that it’s non-fiction and I sometimes let my mind wander.