Whitney’s Reviews > Between the World and Me > Status Update

"You are the bearer of a body more fragile than any other in this country"

Annnnnnd we've swung back around. Statistically, that distinction belongs to Black Trans women and Native American women. There's a distinct lack of intersectionality here and I know this is a letter to his son, but we are all in the same boat. Black men and Black women and Queer people and other BIPOC people.

Y'all...I think I might have spoken too soon because he does understand that some of the stuff from the beginning of the chapter isn't accurate and adjusts his understanding over the course, but I'm also just bored. Coates' writing is a little verbose. I'm not a huge fan of memoirs, either, so I'm already at a disadvantage and I'm cringing thinking about how this will go at book club.

Gonna be honest: We're reading this one for Book Club and I'm already terrified of the comments that I think might be coming about this one T-T