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Publié par | Everest Media LLC |
Date de parution | 06 avril 2022 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9781669380719 |
Langue | English |
Poids de l'ouvrage | 1 Mo |
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Insights on Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Beautiful Struggle
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 1
#1
I was with my brother when we were surrounded by six to eight wrestlers. I did not understand what was happening, but I knew we were in trouble. I tried to follow Bill, but the banditry of Murphy Homes made them legendary.
#2
I had to see the wrestlers live. But that meant going through my father, who only cared about his work. He worked seven days a week. I thought he was the pope, for he issued sweeping edicts like he had a line to God.
#3
We lived in a row house in West Baltimore. My parents had three children, me, my two sisters, and Bill, the oldest. Bill was never scared. He had a bop that moved the crowd, and he turned all his younger siblings into warriors.
#4
In the 1980s, crazy Chuckie threatened our neighborhood. When we lined up for five on five, every tackle he took personally. One night, Bill was sitting outside playing with Stevie’s G. I. Joe toys, when his dad told him the rings were fake.
#5
My father, Conscious Man, was a Black Classic Press author. He was a modest man, but he collected out-of-print texts, obscure lectures, and self-published monographs by writers like J. A. Rogers, Dr. Ben, and Drusilla Houston. He brought these texts back to light.
#6
The Mondawmin Boys were a gang of kids who spent their summers hunting for girls. They had no interest in anything but hair, gelled, fried, and french-rolled. They were the best of West Baltimore, and they knew it.
#7
Big Bill was born in 1971, two years after his father joined the Black Panther Party. His father was a veteran and a revolutionary, and he was proud of both traits. But he was also shameless in his pursuit of women, which sometimes hurt him and those around him.