This is a difficult book for me to review, not because of the content, but because I don't think it's for me to rate. A father's words to his black son about the world he will grow up in aren't for me to judge. The content of this book and its context are certainly challenging to me, as a white woman. Coates does not offer a way forward (as the blurb states) to fix systemic racism. I'm not sure he knows a way forward and I certainly don't expect him to educate the world on how to "fix" racism. But maybe that's the point. There is no way forward for the better until we all realize that the problem doesn't fall on other people, like Coates, to fix. It falls on us. All of us.