There’s a line from Lindy West’s Shrill that really resonated with me, in her case about her disillusionment with comedy, “Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”  There’s truth to that for pretty much any intersectional thinking, and Between the World and Me is basically Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking directly to his teenage son about his long slow realization that the same is true of anti-racism.  His long, slow realization is that the Dream (capitalization his) of white […]