If there's anything more depressing than reading this and James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates this year - all with fantastic and enlightening offerings - it's the prospect of having to read a similar work another fifty years down the road.

But read it anyway. And read [b:Between the World and Me|25489625|Between the World and Me|Ta-Nehisi Coates|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1451435027s/25489625.jpg|44848425] and [b:The Fire Next Time|464260|The Fire Next Time|James Baldwin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444584058s/464260.jpg|1129041]. And then find that book (or write it if it isn't out there) that tells me how to get past the othering and hate and oppression that seems foundational in America.