The fundamental experience in America is different based on your skin color.Early experiences in Coates’s life made him realize the inescapable truths about being black.Here are the 3 biggest lessons I’ve learned from this book: The message he has is simple, “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body – it is heritage.” He reveals a life of fear that is part of black people’s everyday life because the system that should protect them falls woefully short. We see how policies and culture have given them an unfair horizontal trajectory.Ĭoates wrote this book as a letter to his teenage son. In Between the World and Me, author and award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates pulls back the curtain and allows us to see the black condition in America today. But you can still see racism in every aspect of public life in America. Slavery and discrimination may be illegal. Nobody can really know what it’s like to live life as an African American in the US unless they’ve experienced it. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:
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