Between the World and Me
In the book, “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he speaks about the world of the black society and the way the world viewed from their perspective. Coates, the author writes the book as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son, explaining to him about how he was not smart growing up in the streets of Baltimore and wanted to spread his knowledge he knows now compared to when he was a kid. Some of the knowledge he spoke about in the book was, how racism in the world plays a huge role in the way black people act and view the world through their eyes. For example, “blacks” not knowing what the “real world” of no racism is and “whites” asserting themselves as the dominant force. With that said, Coates makes it …show more content…
This trauma was caused by him living in Baltimore and not used to being around different races of people, the “bubble” he was so used to was popped when he was in Paris. Coates vocalized about the difference between Paris and Baltimore that Paris was not just a, “thought experiment but an actual place filled with actual people” (Coates 119). From this quote, he just didn’t speak from his perspective, but from a “black person’s” perspective on how they view certain things when they feel like they are the “only one” in a place where everyone is different ethnicities, but don’t make a big deal about race and color. This situation expanded when Coates met a friend in Paris, and his friend had bought him dinner, and they had a glass of wine. Coates explained how, “I felt like I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.” (Coates 126). This situation was to tell his son that people other than the “bubble” in Baltimore that different people lived by different rules, meaning that he had to dislodge his fear of being the “only black” because the other places in the world isn’t always the way people portray this ”segregated …show more content…
The claims about these situations that Coates helps explain throughout the book gives us a better representation of how black people who have to be as twice as good. Such as how black excellence and beauty not represented in public announcements and how they have to fight through the fear of excelling and being a part of society, like when Coates and his family were in
In the book, “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he speaks about the world of the black society and the way the world viewed from their perspective. Coates, the author writes the book as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son, explaining to him about how he was not smart growing up in the streets of Baltimore and wanted to spread his knowledge he knows now compared to when he was a kid. Some of the knowledge he spoke about in the book was, how racism in the world plays a huge role in the way black people act and view the world through their eyes. For example, “blacks” not knowing what the “real world” of no racism is and “whites” asserting themselves as the dominant force. With that said, Coates makes it …show more content…
This trauma was caused by him living in Baltimore and not used to being around different races of people, the “bubble” he was so used to was popped when he was in Paris. Coates vocalized about the difference between Paris and Baltimore that Paris was not just a, “thought experiment but an actual place filled with actual people” (Coates 119). From this quote, he just didn’t speak from his perspective, but from a “black person’s” perspective on how they view certain things when they feel like they are the “only one” in a place where everyone is different ethnicities, but don’t make a big deal about race and color. This situation expanded when Coates met a friend in Paris, and his friend had bought him dinner, and they had a glass of wine. Coates explained how, “I felt like I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.” (Coates 126). This situation was to tell his son that people other than the “bubble” in Baltimore that different people lived by different rules, meaning that he had to dislodge his fear of being the “only black” because the other places in the world isn’t always the way people portray this ”segregated …show more content…
The claims about these situations that Coates helps explain throughout the book gives us a better representation of how black people who have to be as twice as good. Such as how black excellence and beauty not represented in public announcements and how they have to fight through the fear of excelling and being a part of society, like when Coates and his family were in