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I found this book to be an excellent companion to Mr Coates' more recent work Between the World and Me. The Beautiful Struggle is a lyrical journey through West Baltimore and sheds more detailed light on some of the incidents mentioned in his second book. It shows the many paths a young person could take when faced with the results of multi-generational systemic racism and focuses on the father, the author, and an older brother. Without the social context the book would be an entertaining memoir, by the kind of writer who transports the reader into the story. Action, romance, drama, everything is here. Also a bit of Black Panther Party history, African music study, etc. It is more than just a good book though, considering where we are in this country, considering we have to be told black lives matter, considering the carte blanche granted to the police departments, it is an indispensable view of the other side.

I think both of these books should be required reading for people like me, that is people who have to check the white, non-hispanic box on surveys. While reading a couple (or a hundred) books will never place you in the shoes of someone who has experienced the struggle in real life, books like this will open your/our/their eyes to what is often swept under the rug as we pretend to live in some sort of post-racial utopia. It's never going to happen if we as a society, we as a country, don't realize, acknowledge, and try to remedy all the harm caused in the black community through decades of legislation. I considered myself conscious before reading any of Mr Coates' work and now feel like I'm on step one again. There is a lot of knowledge out there.


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The Beautiful Struggle A Father Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood TaNehisi Coates 9780385520362 Books Reviews

It's a good read but somewhat choppy. I almost gave up though in the first couple of pages as I couldn't understand the street language used to open the book. After the opening it the street language is less (or I become familiar with it) and you are cheering for a young boy who is struggling not to get sucked into the wasted life of the streets in Baltimore and his father who is trying to show him there is a different path to travel.
This is the universal story of fathers and sons regardless of where they're born and raised. Ta-Nehisi and I are almost the same age and yet grew up in parallel universes on the same continent. My beautiful struggle was much less intense than his — much more of the "normal" that he describes as the desired state — and yet his beautiful turn of phrase gave me an understanding of how his life was lived. So lucky for all of us that he chose to share it, and to shed light into what may otherwise have remained in darkness.
Brilliant, Necessary, Required and at the same time bewildering. That we have to caution, teach and live life tethered to a prayer that our mainly young men and boys are able to simply make it home safely, is sobering. To live in this condition daily is heart wrenching, but also necessary in our Black American reality. To date I've bought numerous copies and gave them as gifts to all the young men and fathers in my barbershop.
I only know Ta-Nehisi Coates as an elegant writer. This is his autobiography thus far, and it's a good story, as he lets us into his head throughout. I was curious to know how he became a writer, and his story highlights that. It's not a simple chronology, nor a continuous storyline, but I felt like he was piecing his childhood days together to figure it all out, that is, how he became who he is. I enjoyed the journey, though he's not done yet, and that resonated with me. I found it worth my time, following his thoughts.
I feel honored to share my opinion on this memoir. Many wonderful books were on my wishlist from Christmas and I knew I wanted to start the new year off with material that would leave an impression on me so I chose The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates and it was everything I had thought it would be. I was able to relate to Coates' memoir in so many ways. I grew up during the same time and came from a similar neighborhood so it was just a matter of me relating my own experiences to those that were shared in the memoir.
I read this seeking a different point of view. I found it on the recommended list and it intrigued me. At first the language and descriptions threw me, (his experience is in an era younger than mine, but a similar neighborhood to the one in which I grew up) but I decided to let his language tell the story , embracing it, instead of fighting it. I found the descriptions poetic and truthful. I have to admit, I loved it and am reading another book of his.
He is as honest as a black man can be in our culture. I'm sure he uses language as a means to push past the outer layers of our engrained racism.

He does not allow us time to ponder on his truths, he intends, I believe, to create a story where we will want, even desire a second and third reading. This will be for those men who believe themselves white, and who have the courage to read it, an epiphany. Can they embrace these truths?

And who of us has the strength to embrace the truth in book and use those truths to make a difference.
I found this book to be an excellent companion to Mr Coates' more recent work Between the World and Me. The Beautiful Struggle is a lyrical journey through West Baltimore and sheds more detailed light on some of the incidents mentioned in his second book. It shows the many paths a young person could take when faced with the results of multi-generational systemic racism and focuses on the father, the author, and an older brother. Without the social context the book would be an entertaining memoir, by the kind of writer who transports the reader into the story. Action, romance, drama, everything is here. Also a bit of Black Panther Party history, African music study, etc. It is more than just a good book though, considering where we are in this country, considering we have to be told black lives matter, considering the carte blanche granted to the police departments, it is an indispensable view of the other side.

I think both of these books should be required reading for people like me, that is people who have to check the white, non-hispanic box on surveys. While reading a couple (or a hundred) books will never place you in the shoes of someone who has experienced the struggle in real life, books like this will open your/our/their eyes to what is often swept under the rug as we pretend to live in some sort of post-racial utopia. It's never going to happen if we as a society, we as a country, don't realize, acknowledge, and try to remedy all the harm caused in the black community through decades of legislation. I considered myself conscious before reading any of Mr Coates' work and now feel like I'm on step one again. There is a lot of knowledge out there.