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well, it made me insane so it does get 5 stars. maybe better terminology would be it answers to things i feel insane about. i feel, with this being a letter to his son, a connection to coates as a paternal figure. i think a lot about what to do now that i have been racialized, to be made "of race." i guess in a similar way i used to think about gender and what we sometimes call coercively assigned sex... i guess sometimes i do wish i could say to an elder, "what do i do? there is cruelty in store for me, and there is subjugation, and there is oppression, and i am guaranteed a worse life, a worse life for me because of no reason, a worse and uglier life than the people doing cruelty to me, and what do i do? how do i live?" and i felt held by this work and the ideas and experiences coates shares with us. and a little more at ease, a little more figured out, or that it might be possible for me to figure it out.
well, it made me insane so it does get 5 stars. maybe better terminology would be it answers to things i feel insane about. i feel, with this being a letter to his son, a connection to coates as a paternal figure. i think a lot about what to do now that i have been racialized, to be made "of race." i guess in a similar way i used to think about gender and what we sometimes call coercively assigned sex... i guess sometimes i do wish i could say to an elder, "what do i do? there is cruelty in store for me, and there is subjugation, and there is oppression, and i am guaranteed a worse life, a worse life for me because of no reason, a worse and uglier life than the people doing cruelty to me, and what do i do? how do i live?" and i felt held by this work and the ideas and experiences coates shares with us. and a little more at ease, a little more figured out, or that it might be possible for me to figure it out.