As Coates describes “the dream” he is saying that every US citizen should have equal rights and opportunities to achieve more. Another key component of the American dream is that black people’s bodies is part of the fabric of American society. We all think of the American Dream and we know that this dream can not be unbound from violence against African American. Black people live in fear knowing that they’re bodies are always at risk and as he grew up the world around them was far beyond their control. The whites are able to experience the dream because of racism and they’re more likely to be more successful because they’re white. The letter to his son is pretty much the questions he would ask as he gets older, so Coates wrote a letter which
