Between The World And Me Analysis

Between the World and Me In the book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author portrayed his life to his son through his own personal examples of how he lived in fear. With his fear of losing his body he lost out on many life changing opportunities. Through vivid memories from childhood, the birth of his son, and adulthood, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, proved that African Americans body’s had always been susceptible to destruction through systemic racism. Throughout the author's life, Ta-Nehisi Coates, faced many problems which were built on the basis of him being black. His argument was that white people did not see the fear African Americans had to face everyday. The author was on a popular news show in Washington D.C for his writing. He was being interviewed on his ideas that the black and whites were still living separate and unequal. Early on in the book Ta-Nehisi Coates stated “white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believed they are white, was built on looting and violence” emphasized how
One of his earliest memories of fear happened while he had been standing outside a CVS when three white teenagers had come up to confront another black teenager. Ta-Nehisi Coates remembered that moment and stated, “the boy with the small eyes reached into his ski jacket and pulled out a gun. I recall it in the slowest motion, as though in a dream. I saw a surging rage that could, in an instant erase my body” proving that ever since he was little, violence had surrounded him, which had eventually imbedded in him, a fear for his life (19). This had been the start of others putting him in his place at the bottom of the pack. He was black, so people had thought his body had not been as good as theirs and he was not their equal. From an early age the author had been forced to realize how easily it would have been for someone to destroy him and his