Compare And Contrast Between The World And Me

I feel that in Between the world and me Coates wants the reader to be aware of racial injustice in America. He shows police brutality on African Americans, blacks having to be twice as good, and slavery. Coates makes the reader aware of police brutality when he talks about the death of one of his classmates Prince. Prince was a young charasmatic black man who was killed by police in a situation similiar to the incident of Michael Brown, Trayvon Marton, Tamir Rice, and others. Princes death made coates angry. He began to see how African Americans were not treated the same as white folks. It didn't matter if someone came from a priviledged background or if one was very smart, nothing could save a black man from brutal America. Police were abke to kill a black man for little to no reason and get
The goal is "The dream", the dream is a house in the suburbs, spacious lawns, driveways, bbq and pool parties with white picket fences. The dream is easier for white folks to obtain but it was built on the backs of suffering black bodies. To be succesful blacks must be twice as smart because when compared to a white man the white man will always have the advantage simply because of the color of his skin. Whe one sees a black man the automatically thinks of a criminal or thug which makes life hard as a colored man in America. Coates also makes the reader aware if the legacy of slavery. He talks about the history of America. He discusses how slavery was an example of America treating black bodies like animals. Not only does Coates say how many people were enslaved but he gives actual names of the people that were enslaved. The destruction of the black body is the heritage of America. It was not just borrowing labor but slaves were beaten and raped. White people saw black bodies as the key to their social hierarchy and believed it was their right to treat other bodies like