CPL: Online Book Club discussion

This month's book is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I hadn't read this when I selected it for this month's book, but it had been on my to be read list for a while now. I'm glad I picked it, I think it could bring about an interesting conversation. I will probably have to read it a second time, and will probably end up buying a copy of my own.
Have you started reading it? What do you think so far? It's uncomfortable reading, that's good. Some reading should be uncomfortable, it means you are paying attention.
Have you read it before? Will you read it again? Have you noticed different things this time?
I will leave you with a quote from the book:

Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism- the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them- inevitably follows from this inalterable condition.... race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming "the people" has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. p. 11

I thought I would posts quotes from the book, as a starting point for discussion. Picking specific quotes turned out to be harder than I thought. This quote seemed appropriate:

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what
he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in
conformity with natural law." This is the foundation of the
Dream- its adherents must nor just believe in it but believe
that it is just, believe that their possession of the Dream is the
natural result of grit, honor, and good works." p. 112

This was my second time reading, Between the World and Me. This book is a letter to the author's 15 year old son about his experiences of being a black person in America.
For me being a parent of two African American women, I had to school my children on how to conduct themselves in this world. To be aware of invisible cues of racism in their everyday life.
I started with telling them about our history. My personal experiences of being, followed in stores, stopped by the police, for fitting the description of suspect, just because I had been leaving a predominantly white neighborhood, for examples.
Knowledge about our history good or bad, encourages us to internalize the struggles of being black but instead struggle for wisdom.

I've been watching Finding Your Roots, and it seems to me that knowing your past, good and bad, helps you know where you come from and who your people were. Which can affect how you view yourself, and those around you.