![]() ![]() I doubt that dismissing people as majoritarian pigs will reduce violence significantly. are all fine and applicable," they are inadequate because the "problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs." A book on violence against black people deserves deeper analysis and real solutions. For example, Coates notes that our "publicly appointed guardians" have recently given attention to police reform, and he writes that while "diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Fish in a boat struggle.Īlso, Coates's struggle in this book does not include grappling with serious policy options. To order Between the World and Me for £8.79 (RRP £10.99) go to or call 03. "Struggling" without the direction provided by a clear vision, however, is a recipe for disaster. ![]() The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. He provides only an amorphous directive to "struggle" for wisdom, for ancestors, and "for the warmth of" the Howard University community. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me 345 likes Like You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. Coates does not share a vision of what a healthy America or a healthy black community would look like. ![]() The most significant flaw is the book's absence of vision and real solutions. ![]()
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