Ta-Nehisi Coates is a journalist and national correspondent who writes about culture, politics and social issues. He grew up in west Baltimore Maryland where he came about race in America through a combination of patient instruction, firsthand experience and tragedy of his friends’ death. Mr. Coates attended Howard University, where he described it as being the loveliest and unique. Howard University can be known as a historical black institution, having African-Americans from all over the world attending its prestigious background. His book Between the World and Me, is a written letter to his son Samori. The letter contemplates the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being black in the unites states. Ta-Nehisi Coates recapitulate
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Ta-Nehisi Coates profoundly laid out the state of race relations in this country. In my view Coates childhood and education was very important to him. As a parent and family man, he feared the world his son was coming into, seen that race was an issue and knowing the violent community he grew up in. Police brutality was a major issue he spoke about. Not only Eric Garner experienced police brutality, Coates college friend Prince Jones was gunned down by an undercover cop in a case of hugely “mistaken identity”. Which I think it’s very sad in terms of the families who were left emotional distressed and nothing to fight against because of how corrupted the judicial system can be. The disintegration of race relations in light of current events to be black in a supremely white society, in Coates view is to live in constant fear because “destroying the black body was permissible”. To consider freedom for the African American to be educated, to raise a family without fear, to live a life worked hard for without anxiety or threat of violence is a lifetime fallacy. Without question racism is still extremely present, entrenched in a society that fails to understand it and buried in fatal flawed judicial system. Racism and stereotyping are not issues to take casually. Racism have been used as a powerful weapon encouraging fear and hatred of others in times
Ta-Nehisi Coates profoundly laid out the state of race relations in this country. In my view Coates childhood and education was very important to him. As a parent and family man, he feared the world his son was coming into, seen that race was an issue and knowing the violent community he grew up in. Police brutality was a major issue he spoke about. Not only Eric Garner experienced police brutality, Coates college friend Prince Jones was gunned down by an undercover cop in a case of hugely “mistaken identity”. Which I think it’s very sad in terms of the families who were left emotional distressed and nothing to fight against because of how corrupted the judicial system can be. The disintegration of race relations in light of current events to be black in a supremely white society, in Coates view is to live in constant fear because “destroying the black body was permissible”. To consider freedom for the African American to be educated, to raise a family without fear, to live a life worked hard for without anxiety or threat of violence is a lifetime fallacy. Without question racism is still extremely present, entrenched in a society that fails to understand it and buried in fatal flawed judicial system. Racism and stereotyping are not issues to take casually. Racism have been used as a powerful weapon encouraging fear and hatred of others in times