In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses the social issue of ignorance pertaining to racism in America today. Coates covers a wide range of topics when it comes to the present-day African-American community. The most powerful message he conveys is that if we don’t overcome this ignorance and address the problem head-on, it will never get solved and we will never reach peace. Coates describes white people as being in “The Dream”, a place where there are white picket fences and freshly cut grass, and there are no issues. They stay in the mindset of The Dream so that they neither have to confront nor deal with the negatives surrounding them. This mindset is dangerous because it causes friction between races. There were
