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dark emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

5.0


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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

It was well penned and put into words the fear of being black. 
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. 


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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0


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5.0

VV good. emotional. Would recommend.

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reflective sad fast-paced

5.0


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4.5


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4.5


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4.0


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5.0

Reviewing someone's lived experience feels weird, so I'll just say that this memoir does not sugarcoat anything. It's a short book, but the impact of his words will not soon fade. 

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