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A world made clear��.

Ta-Nehisi Coates�� The Message takes us with him on four stops of his journey. He uses words and language to create stories. Stories that examine our lives, our truths, and our lies.

We meet him first as a young boy meeting violence and seeking to understand, to clarify. Clarification is something he needs as a person and as a journalist and with this I totally agree because that is what I seek as well, to clarify, to simplify, to boil down what I’m seeing into a clarified whole.

Then we go with him to Senegal, where he goes to examine his slavery past. He is sort of seeking to close the circle by going to the beginning. However, he finds that the circle has kept on turning, and it has now turned him back to America.

Our third stop is back home in America. He examines education in America and what book banning really means. How it is an attack on education because education is seeding the future. So, when you try to control education, you seek to control the future narrative.

Our last and longest stop is in Palestine �� Israel. Here, we meet violence once again. It’s a sort of examining ‘slavery present��. Here, Coates sees his American past in Palestine’s present. He sees how the violence done to the Jews (pogroms and Holocaust) has now been transferred to the Palestinians (occupation and apartheid). The hurt ones become the ones who hurt. Because the circle has not closed �� the story continues……………the Occupation continues, the violence continues, the loss of life continues, the loss of freedom continues, the loss of homes continues…………………��