Between The World And Me By Coates's 'Between The World And Me'

Come to America and live the American dream! The book called Between the World and Me by Coates, introduces a problem that seems to be impossible to overcome; he is addressing the lifestyle of African Americans in the U.S to his son and describing the realism of the world we live in. Coates has well thought out points about the history of how whites obtain their glory in the economy and the lifestyle of African Americans in the U.S. It is the idea that after all this time of trying to come together and unite as one, people are still small-minded to take into account that racism is still a huge problem in the U.S. I agree with Coates and his ideas that the life of an African American still has struggles within them, that seems to never change,

Coates provides a great understanding of this concept; he presented, “belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor and land” (Coates 8). It is a sad truth that Coates brings up in this situation, as it is devastating to say that white supremacy was obtained by colonizing and dehumanizing other groups of people, not only Africans, but minority groups that were basically different from whites. Coates gives another idea by stating, “...the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, first and foremost, to deny you and me the right to secure and govern our own bodies” (Coates 8). The idea Coates is trying to present to his son is that white supremacy exists because of the violent acts they have done to obtain their power in society. When you take an account of both quotes provided by Coates and relate it to the real world, you can see that most of our political bodies are made up of white individuals, so presenting this concept, it seems white people are still in power of minority groups even til this