Utterly jealous of TNC’s description of falling in love with words during his childhood. I’m thinking about myself and I’m like “I was really angry and wanted toys” #TheMessage
Well, after TNC just told his story about football and violence, I’m haunted. Thinking that journalism does get some of us to confront the horrors in our lives. Is it enough? Why not? #TheMessage
TNC talking about how it was “clear” to a young him that words could haunt through form and content. Feeling like I deal with a lot of people who don’t really believe in the power of content. #TheMessage
“When you live as we have, among a people whose humanity is ever in doubt, even the small and particular… becomes political.” #TheMessage
The epigraphs to #TheMessage are worth extended comment. Orwell is quoted, saying he was forced to be a pamphleteer in a time of war. Who do we imagine we are in the face of crisis? What do we imagine is necessary? How do we understand need?
Loved TNC's interviews with Chris Hayes and Terry Gross this week. He's such a careful, thoughtful thinker, and always willing he is to leave things in unsettled space. His discussion of Shakespeare and French at the end of FA was really fun. Excited to read #TheMessage over the next few weeks.
Just finished "Bearing the Flaming Cross" in Ta-Nesisi Coates #TheMessage" and can't help reflecting on the similarities between the battle against CRT, book banning and measures to crush pro-Palestinian protests. Maybe this has been obvious to many all along but I am just connecting the dots.
Will any of my friends join me in reading #TheMessage?
I'd like to recommend that everyone listen to Grandmaster Flash while you read #TheMessagewww.youtube.com/watch?v=Pobr...
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"Why you should read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book. #TheMessagehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/03/why-read-ta-nehisi-coates-new-book-message/