![]() ![]() We have no doubt that the reason why African Americans have lost ‘the right to their own bodies’ is due to colonialism, but we sometimes fail to see how Christian normativity is inextricably tied to colonialism as well. ![]() “In America it is traditional to destroy the black body- it is heritage” (Coates, 2015 p. In his book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes clear his respect for people of faith backgrounds and the good that can come from them, even if he does not share those beliefs. God had spoken to her and committed her to a new activism” (Coates, 2015, p. Jones, the author relates to us that “God had focused her anger away from revenge and toward redemption, she said. ![]() Confused and outraged by the horror of his distant friend’s death, Ta-Nehisi visits Prince’s mother and learns a lot from the incredible woman. At his funeral after Prince was tragically murdered by an officer, Coates (2015) recalls, “what I remember is all the people who spoke of Prince’s religious zeal, his abiding belief that Jesus was with him” (p. Coates (2015) writes “He was born-again, a state I did not share but respected” (p. Prince comes to represent many things in this book, the first of which being what Ta-Nehisi sees as the positive side of faith. And if he, good Christian, scion of a striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could be forever bound, who then could not?” (Coates, 2015, p. “Prince Jones was the superlative of all my fears. ![]()
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