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The flyleaf posits that this book "offers a transcendent vision for a way forward." While Coates insists on self-interrogation, education, solidarity, and awareness as survival strategies, I did not find a "transcendent way forward." Some help please?
Glauber Ribeiro Yes, see the final pages of the book. Struggle for wisdom, for the memory of your ancestors, for your name. Hope for the dreamers, pray for them if yo…moreYes, see the final pages of the book. Struggle for wisdom, for the memory of your ancestors, for your name. Hope for the dreamers, pray for them if you so wish, but don't pin your struggle on their conversion. In other words, wake up, reject the fantasies of race, live in the real world.(less)
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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