alexisgarcia's review
4.5
Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
unomi57's review
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Physical abuse
deidrelj's review
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Racial slurs
estanza's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Death
nnennaya_'s review
4.5
Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Grief
audc's review
3.75
It’s informative of Coates’ experience and life as a black man in America which is packed with a lot of fear that then turns into anger.
While I agree with the sentiment of Dreamers in America and a majority being white or wanting to be white (ie. having power and authority to inflict destruction), I do not agree with how inflated, fatalist, galactic, racism is portrayed. While it has become cultural and institutionalized -integrated- I do not agree with Coates’ fatalistic view. He ends with the struggle and more of a call for ‘fight for yourself’ instead of strive as a collective.
For this, this book transmits fear and morphs it into anger. As he doesn’t spend nearly as much time on the solution as describing the problem. I can understand where and how he got to his conclusion, but there is a danger in generalising.
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence
gilberik's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Murder, and Police brutality
steffilietzke's review
3.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Racism
Minor: Alcohol
mirandyli's review
5.0
Spoiler
Through this letter to his son, he is ending the cycle of generational trauma. However, there is nothing he can do to end the cycle of racism in America. He, like all Black children, was told by everyone to be twice as good. White children aren't told to be twice as good. In fact, they are told to take twice as much.Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racism
sharrikloves's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Death