エリック・クリスチャン・オルセンのインスタグラム(ericcolsen) - 10月16日 04時50分

This might be the most powerful book I've read in years. Ta-Nehisi Coates crafted a beautifully honest and articulate letter to his 15 year old son. It's a personal and emotional questioning of the systemic and institutionalized racism that existed in 1776 and continues to devour America today. It's terrifyingly good. I found myself highlighting half the book, each quote more devastating than the last, each naive perspective being ripped from my sleepwalking as the pages turned. As much as I try, I don't know this world, despite all the Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin that I read. I've intellectualized the framework and history, but that doesn't mean I know the intricacies of the struggle. But that's why I continued to read. It's why asking difficult questions is not just important; it is imperative... and sometimes we ask questions that have no answers, and sometimes we aren't given a "path forward" or some sort of logistical and logical resolution with hope and promise. But sometimes the question is enough, sometimes the fire just needs to burn, and the only way to make an emotional connection to an overwhelming crisis is to bring it to a singular level, like the body of a Syrian boy washed ashore in Turkey, or like the stolen and murdered body of undeniably innocent Prince Jones by a corrupt Police Officer that Ta-Nehisi cites: ----------------"The plunder was not just of Prince alone. Think of all the love poured into him. Think of the tuitions for Montessori and music lessons. Think of the gasoline expended, the treads worn carting him to football games, basketball tournaments, and Little League... Think of soccer balls, science kits, chemistry set, racetracks, and model trains. Think of all the embraces, all the private jokes, customs, greetings, names, dreams, all the shared knowledge and capacity of a black family injected into that vessel of flesh and bone. And think of how that vessel was taken, shattered on the concrete, and all its holy contents, all that had gone into him, sent flowing back to the earth.” ...............................Ta-Nehisi Coates

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