African American Dream
For a long time there has been a grey interpretation of the dream that Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about in Between The World and Me that Blacks have. Coates mentions the common idea around the African American community the dream to be wealthy and have the same rights as whites. Coates believe that part of being black means that you can never fully achieve the American dream because America was and is built to this day on the backs of African Americans. If whites were to give the African Americans the same rights and opportunities as whites the dream wouldn’t be a dream anymore, and the whites would lose the wealth and power. Coates says “Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve
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the Dream. No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. But a great number of educators spoke of ‘personal responsibility’ in a country authored and sustained by a criminal responsibility. The point of this language of ‘intention’ and ‘personal responsibility’ is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. “ (Coates 33).
Blacks cannot move past their place in the ghetto because the whites often blame for blacks for being in the place they are. Although there are black on black crimes but what race doesn’t have violence towards their own race. Coates wants to show that every time the African American holds America for its fault towards the black community for years, the government says we commit crimes against our own people that’s why we never make it out the ghetto. Coates says that the African American community can no longer accept that and that the African American community seeks approval of the whites too much.. The African American community will never make it out the ghetto because we idolize their dream, Coates believes that we should not. Coates says, “This lie of the Civil War is the lie of innocence, is the Dream. Historians conjured the Dream. Hollywood fortified the Dream. The Dream was gilded by novels and adventure stories.” (Coates 124). The dream is preserved and kept out of touch by whites, the black community will never to be able to reach the dream because no matter what we will never be white so we won’t have the white privileged
life.
the Dream. No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. But a great number of educators spoke of ‘personal responsibility’ in a country authored and sustained by a criminal responsibility. The point of this language of ‘intention’ and ‘personal responsibility’ is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. “ (Coates 33).
Blacks cannot move past their place in the ghetto because the whites often blame for blacks for being in the place they are. Although there are black on black crimes but what race doesn’t have violence towards their own race. Coates wants to show that every time the African American holds America for its fault towards the black community for years, the government says we commit crimes against our own people that’s why we never make it out the ghetto. Coates says that the African American community can no longer accept that and that the African American community seeks approval of the whites too much.. The African American community will never make it out the ghetto because we idolize their dream, Coates believes that we should not. Coates says, “This lie of the Civil War is the lie of innocence, is the Dream. Historians conjured the Dream. Hollywood fortified the Dream. The Dream was gilded by novels and adventure stories.” (Coates 124). The dream is preserved and kept out of touch by whites, the black community will never to be able to reach the dream because no matter what we will never be white so we won’t have the white privileged
life.