This was such an interesting read, especially reading it for the first time six and a half years after it first came out. With any book like that that takes me so long to get to, I often think there's no way this is as good as people said it was back then. Between the World and Me definitely is that good. It strikes such a good balance between country-wide issues and specific stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates's life. I appreciated the focus on history, and how it connects to our present and future, and how much us white people want to forget that past or rewrite it to make our actions seem reasonable. These passages really stuck out to me in particular:  "You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history." and " To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown." I appreciate this lesson, how in every moment that you think about the U.S. and its current events AND its history you have to fight the narratives that have propped it up over the decades and centuries. This is so well-written, and I hope people continue to revisit it and remember to put these concepts into action.