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The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10BeforeTheEnd - 3 Weeks In

I am 3 in, working slowly on Far From The Tree
Silly me I picked a lot of chunky books for this!

Ruthiella Great progress! 👍 1w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

pick

A once in a generation mind. Coates is always a pick. In this Coates strings together ideas from his travels - the slave trade out of Senegal, current day book banning in S. Carolina, Palestine occupation, and he some how threads them into a coherent telling on oppression
His cadence always blows me away, and how he can take subjects and make them not only lyrical but impactful.
Such important insights here. Should be required reading

ChaoticMissAdventures #10BeforeTheEnd 2w

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Coffee break

#10BeforeTheEnd

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ncsufoxes

Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Interesting article by Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair. “Words are not violence, nor are they powerless.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates?s=...

AmyG Very good article. 2mo

Bette Thanks. 👍 2mo

AnnCrystal Never even knew about this Charlie Kirk guy until now. I've been shocked about highlights on his teachings and this article is informative at a whole new level. Horrifying. Thank you for sharing.

The last bit of this article was correct 🎯.

“The import of this history has never been clearer than in this moment when the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?“ 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Definitely falls in the category of 'the kind of writing I'm hoping is being read and discussed in classrooms'.
The book is divided into four essays, with a heavy focus on the purpose of writing. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Journalism is Not a Luxury - The importance and power of words relaying the truth of experience, interviewing people to get the actual facts from sources, confront the 'known' popular idea/perspective. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? On Pharaohs - Finding proof of resilience, community, addressing internalized racism, colourism, created by the intentional agenda of white supremacy justifying slavery.
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Robotswithpersonality 4/? Bearing the Flaming Cross - My favourite ❤️ - Learning and writing with ADHD; context and the meaning and purpose of learning certain knowledge; safe space so students can be challenged, less available to black studens and those who are not served by traditional classroom structure; the backlash against 'critical race theory'; censorship/book banning; objection against teaching conformity, art influencing politics. 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? The Gigantic Dream -Journalistic responsibility, colonialism, racism and the Jim Crow era, how aspects of these experiences show up in the current Palestinian experience, but fall short of identifying the full sense of what Palestinians are struggling to survive. Coates is addressing his own lenses of experience, acknowledging analogies perhaps not as useful or appropriate as he'd hoped in an article he'd previously written called “The (edited) 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? It continues to be encouraging every time a journalist focuses on the injustices inflicted upon Palestine, when they're willing to push through the thorny topic of historical and modern antisemitism to specifically address what is going in Israel now. However, this essay in particular, which takes up about half the book, suffers in comparison to Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 Akkad's writing is consistently an urgent gut punch, while Coates seems to regularly get bogged down in self-recrimination for not fully understanding the issue, and considering historical lenses, even if both of those aspects have weight in considering how journalists can write better on such critical matters.

⚠️racism, antisemitism 2mo

Cuilin Fantastic detailed review. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality @Cuilin Thanks! ❤️ 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

...to be truly seen...

Cuilin Always through stories!! 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Save the books that discomfit, save the teachers that defend them, save the future.

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

“...add virtue to [ ] violence.“
An eloquent takedown of an ugly business.

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

Imagination is a gateway to policy change, writing is an inspiration for that imagination.

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Robotswithpersonality

The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It is not enough for me to convince the reader of my argument; I want them to feel that same private joy that I feel alone.“

Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

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