Between The World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

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Coates offers advice to his son on the race politics in the United States.  On what does it mean to be a black person in this country.  The fear of a father of his son getting hurt by a police force that is hopelessly prejudiced, the streets where one wrong move can mean end of life, the ghettoing of an entire race – Coates writes with a visceral lucidity that brings these to life.  It makes you think and take a look at the continuous divide that is not going away anytime soon.  Sadly, Coates doesn’t offer a solution.  Even though his anger at decades of slavery and his bitterness with who he calls ‘the dreamers’ is justified, you are left looking for answers in the end.

Read, for a quick introduction to race relations in the US.