Analysis Of Between The World And Me

How can a man who sees this world as unfair and does not believe in God hope to raise his son properly? Coates in his book Between the World and Me was trying to deliver a message for his fifteen year old son that this world is full of racist people, and he should find a way to live with them. By framing Between the World and Me as a letter, Coates combines memoir and history, which provides him with a larger palette to convey the emotional complexity of black life. The danger of being black and American is the main idea of Coates’ book. Although Coates lost hope, he raised his son to respect everyone regardless of his color, religion, or anything that can be used to differentiate people. Every parent must raise their sons like

Killing will lead to more killing and blood. An officer who treats a young black man playing loud music from his car when pulling him over to the side of the road as he treats a terrorist should be considered as terrorist also. What’s the difference between them anyway? The hostility between blacks and the police has existed for a long time, until it has became part of the African-American culture, and even the American culture. We can clearly see this in Hollywood movies. Coates says describing his childhood in Baltimore “To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under the fear” (Coates 17). Coates says that this hostility between them because of the slave history in this country. Otherwise, we have white and black officers, and it happened that a black officer kills a black body for a silly reason. The problem is partial; we can only blame the police department for one thing how they could hire a racist officer to be responsible of a mixed race community