Summary Of Between The World And Me

“The world have no time for the childhood of black boys and girls” (Coates, 25) . This one sentence depicts the reality of racial discrimination and how black society in the United States suffers from racism in the American society. Society supposes to guide children for a safe and happy childhood, but according to Ta-Nehisi Coates, American society failed to provide safe childhood to black children. In his book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates describe how racism toward the black society and how black’s dream of equality has been mistreated in the United States of America.
Racism has always been in the land of the United States. It was appearing in many different forms such as slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and etc. One of the most easily seen racism-associate issue nowadays is the population of black men in jail. Coates has said that “60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high
Just by reading that line, one should automatically think the way Coates described in the next sentence: “this should disgrace the country” (Coates, 27). However, as Suad Joseph and Benjamin D'Harlingue mention in their article, Media Representations and the Criminalization of Arab Americans and Muslim American, the United State government and media associates do not feel disgraced, but publicly criticize or emphasize that non-whites, especially Arabs and Muslim Americans, are less civilized and means to commit a crime in thus should be imprisoned. However, if a white person, who pursue christian belief, commits a crime, white does not get criticized or get emphasized in the news (“Women’s lives..”, 447). Where the media should be protected or share non-bias news shows the racial discrimination in a way of depicting how non-whites are criminal and thus belongs to the jail. Furthermore, criminal justice system itself works in a way that protects white-body’s rights more than blacks. For example, white females are likely to be placed on