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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?
Saurabh Sharma There certainly is a way forward in this book. And that is for the current generation of America to be aware of all the violence that has been inflict…moreThere certainly is a way forward in this book. And that is for the current generation of America to be aware of all the violence that has been inflicted upon the black people, and rethink their idea of supremacy. Should an idea be a supremacist or color of our skin? That, what Coates imply, is what "they" have to decide and help "themselves." Which is absolutely true, we can't learn on behalf of someone. What one can do is read this book and learn the history of torture that a black body has bore since forever, the hatred in the eyes of people, and in some cases sheer condescension of their presence. What is meant by "offers a transcendent vision for a way forward," isn't necessary an implication that this book contains strategies, like those shitty "to-do" books, on how America can be great and do away with racism; instead, what I feel, the book is saying indirectly is that people can learn, read and arm themselves with information, and also stand up for the discrimination and violence against blacks. Hope this helps!(less)
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