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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > BOOK OF THE MONTH: AUGUST: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
 
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Lumius
Nov 24, 2004
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Comparing a systemic issue of prejudice to an organized , if violent, mass action with clear goals and a leader (war) seems really dishonest. It seems like he spends the entire article saying hey I know black people have it bad (citing murder rate) then goes all over the place to finally say Hey maybe those police being there are good. As if people protesting are angry about the police existing period, instead of the issues of police oversight , profiling etc. It really feels way too simple of an article "the imposition of majority rule in Iraq is that the sad, oppressive, old regime is better than any possible improvement". Are there reasons that the old regime was better in some ways , ie americans came in and dismissed everyone from the army and those people somehow ended up as insurgents.

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