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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?
Mary I kind of agree! But I love all the responses below. What is needed is to "wake up" and realize exactly how racist America is, and has always been. I'…moreI kind of agree! But I love all the responses below. What is needed is to "wake up" and realize exactly how racist America is, and has always been. I'm talking about structural racism, and that's a very hard thing for a white person like me to see. But it's there. We have to wake up and see it in order to start to eliminate it.(less)
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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