![]() ![]() The taking of land from one group of people and the enslaving of another group of people to work that land," Coates said. "One of the things I'm trying to reckon with in this book is the fact that we were born out of a great moral error, if we'll call it that. ![]() Louis County decided not to indict Wilson, sparking demonstrations across the country. In the book, Coates recounted the night his son stayed up late to hear what would happen to Ferguson officer Darren Wilson who shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen. Ta-Nehisi Coates in "Between the World and Me" But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so that America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, real or imagined-with Eric Garner's anger, with Trayvon Martin's mythical words ("You are gonna die tonight"), with Sean Bell's mistake of running with the wrong crowd, with me standing too close to the small-eyed boy pulling out." Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson-not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. You will hang out with people whom you shouldn't. "But you are human and you will make mistakes. In the book, "Between the World and Me," Coates writes a letter to his 14-year-old son and explores what it means to be black in America. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates says he's terrified by the number of unarmed black men who have died at the hands of police. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We feature this poem in our pick of the best poems about work.įrom Heaney’s 1996 collection The Spirit Level, ‘Two Lorries’ reveals what a master of poetic form Seamus Heaney was, as he offers his take on the sestina (where the words at the ends of the lines in each stanza are the same from one stanza to the next), a difficult form to pull off. But the pen is, by comparison, no weapon – yes, as the proverb has it, the pen is mightier than the sword (or the gun or the spade). A gun is a weapon associated with ‘manly’ ideas of war (however misguidedly) a spade is associated with honest manual labour, such as that performed by the poet’s father and grandfather. The poem’s structure is significant not least in the fact that it almost goes full-circle: Heaney begins with the pen in his hand, ‘snug as a gun’ – a suggestive simile, especially given the complementarity of ‘snug’ and the word it spells when reversed, ‘guns’. Heaney resolves to use his pen as his digging implement, and to perform a different kind of excavation from that practised by his forefathers. ‘Digging’ is about a poet-son’s relationship with his father and the sense that the working-class son, by choosing the vocation of the poet, is adopting a path very different from his father’s, and his father’s before him. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Roberts-Smith wins, he is likely to be awarded many millions more in damages. ![]() Whichever side loses the case may face up to $25m in costs. “It put a target on my back,” he told the court. Giving evidence as the first witness before the federal court, Roberts-Smith said the Victoria Cross he won for spectacular bravery in 2010 was not an honour he sought, but, ultimately, a burden “thrust upon him”. Roberts-Smith’s lawyers told court his accusers were fabulists and fantasists, failed soldiers embittered by their own “cowardice”, and a “corrosive jealousy” towards their comrade’s successes. He has sued the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times alleging their reporting defamed him, wrongly portraying him as a war criminal and murderer who who “broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement”. Roberts-Smith denies the allegations, and all wrongdoing. ![]() |