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This book was written as a conversation between the author and his son and what it means to be a black man in America. It is very heartfelt but also unflinching in its discussion of what is it like to live with racism daily. I could feel the depths of his hope for better for his son while at the same time his skepticism that it will be achieved. He is brutally honest and I think the only way forward is for each of us to be just as brutally honest about ourselves and the role everyone plays in pe
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In the last few years, when I've been ready to tackle a title having to do with social justice, race or gender, I've found it hugely fulfilling to do it through audiobook format. Hearing these words in the author's own voice makes the experience even more memorable. Coates' staggering, lyrical prose captures feelings on his own blackness and all that comes with it--from his wary childhood in Baltimore to his college years at Howard University to his experiences with fatherhood and beyond. There
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