Between the World and Me (One World Essentials)

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

the old heads

Refers to bodies a lot. Instead of saying "past generations," he calls them "old heads."

the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So

I tknk ths is th autor's view of a dispassionate and depersonalized tak on all histories and cultures

But part of what I know is that there is the burden of living among Dreamers, and there is the extra burden of your country telling you the Dream is just, noble, and real, and you are crazy for seeing the corruption and smelling the sulfur. For their innocence, they nullify your anger, your fear, until you are coming and going, and you find yourself inveighing against yourself—“Black people are the only people who…”—really inveighing against your own humanity and raging against the crime in your ghetto, because you are powerless before the great crime of history that brought the ghettos to be.

Does this allow for any so-called white people to be advocates? Is there such a thing as an anti-racist?