Since “Captain American: Civil War” I’ve been intrigued by the Black Panther Character. I like that there’s a character who’s not supernatural (Captain America, Thor, Spiderman, etc.), but has skills similar to Black Widow and Hawkeye, which are my favorite types of super heroes. It’s about time that a person of color is going to be featured as a superhero and not just as Iron Man’s sidekick. I like to read the back stories on the superheroes in the movies, I’ve been wanting to catch […]
Like a truth revealed to the self-assured, I wasn’t ready for this.
I am a white male in my 30s. Written as a letter to his 15 year old son, this is a memoir of being black in America by a 39 year old man with a life wholly different from mine. I point this out not to argue that this book has nothing to offer me, but to acknowledge that I am coming to this book with a different set of tools – a different language, even. The context I use to make sense of the […]
I remember Ta-Nehisi Coates from the NPR show Tell Me More
I lived in the Philly suburbs a few years ago, so WHYY was my source for NPR radio shows. When I first moved down there, and for 3 full years, I worked second shift. I got to hear radio shows that played in the middle of the day. Tell Me More was one of my favorites. I don’t know what it says about me (I’m oblivious?) that for years I never realized that it was about/by African Americans. I guess it was the power of […]
Between the World and Me
There’s been a lot of buzz about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and I’m late getting on that train. This is my book club’s latest pick and after reading it, I think the discussion will be one of the best discussions we have had. To start off with, I think the choice to frame this book as a letter to his son was a brilliant choice. As the discussion was framed as a discussion rather than a lecture/speech/argument, I feel that readers can […]