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Dana DesJardins asked this question about Between the World and Me:
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?
Erica It would be nice, wouldn't it, for an author who lays out the issue so dramatically, to also lay out the specifics of the "way forward" for all of us.…moreIt would be nice, wouldn't it, for an author who lays out the issue so dramatically, to also lay out the specifics of the "way forward" for all of us. Unfortunately, I think Ta-Nehisi Coates chooses instead to let everyone find their own specific way to transcend this situation, and create a better world.

It is a hard job to describe honestly what you observe and feel. It is a different hard job to give a prescription for the remedy. If we had a visionary counterpart to Coates, who made specific suggestions for government action as well as civic action, then we could all rally behind a cohesive movement. As it is, I suppose we each have to think on our own of how our society should best make forward progress. (less)
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