Discrimination In 'Black' By Ta-Nehisi Coates

The personal experience is subjective. When race relations are deliberated, one might finds it difficult to completely understand instances of discrimination when they are discussed abstractly or generally. However; the human experience is not something that a case can be made against. One cannot make a compelling argument against another’s struggles and emotions throughout those struggles. Ta-Nehisi Coates then makes a most irrefutable argument for the existence of racism (and it’s damaging effects on those who have been deemed “black” by society) through his use of personal experience to explain how his life was monopolized by the idea of race.

Society as a whole rather rejects emotions. Happy, sad, angry - all emotions ought to be kept to one’s self and not displayed in public. Many find that they have an aversion to others who open up freely towards them or find it uncomfortable to
It is therefore disturbing for those many to read about another’s emotions in such a public display as that of Coates' letter to his son describing his personal experience. One often tries to create an argument for the other’s side of the story. When Coates describes a white woman who shoves Coates’ son in an elevator, like the people in the scene, we are quick to the white woman’s defense. Many would bring up the fact that New York City is fast paced for anyone, not necessarily more so towards black males, but then one realizes that despite any reason, that reason does not hold any weight. Nothing is more weighty than a person’s emotions and reactions to a struggle and it’s effects on their life. While one can argue that the effects of events on one’s life don’t necessarily have to be negative, it