lukethelibrarian reviewed Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of …
2022 #FReadom read 7/20
5 stars
"Race is the child of racism, not the father." - Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me, which was book #7 in my 2022 journey of reading books that have been challenged or removed from Texas libraries or schools.
The antilibrarians feign concern for reader "DISCOMFORT." But to me, the readers who find most discomfort in Coates or Kendi will be those whose starting-place was that of TAKING COMFORT in (their belief in) their own "whiteness."