The Message - Important Words!
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message is a book well worth reading. Coates is a poet and storyteller, as well as journalist, a teacher, and a student. This book exposed and deepened my knowledge and general insights related to Israel and racism, and much more. While little was particularly new, so much wisdom showed itself through - most deeply. Early in the book the mood of the book is exposed with things such as (referring to Jack Tatum’s jarring, paralyzing hit of Darryl Stingley), Coates stated: Even Tatum’s story spoke volumes by not speaking much at all, for it nodded to the shame one might feel or the paradox of a game that valorizes violence and then is horrified by its consequences. … What I felt then was that the story of Darryl Stingley broke some invisible law of justice, one that reigned in all of my cartoons. I knew that football was violent – it was the violence that backlit Tony Dorsett’s escape act. But violen...