Summary: The Case Of Reparations

The argument Coates is making in each text is the multiple ways that black people lived dealing with fear and risks in America because they are black. Coates explain how boys in the neighborhood where certain clothes like “armor,” engaging in fights with their own people to eliminate the threat or problems that can be brought upon them by White Americans. Coates points out how he uses to get beaten by his parents, not because they loved him less, but more to protect his body from the White Americans whom will harm it. Coates is writing a letter to his 15-year-old son, who has seen the inequality displayed in this country and making him strong by educating him with such information so he will know the truth. The Dream is written to inform a …show more content…
The author is building rapport around one man’s life story, Clyde Ross, and his endeavors with dealing with discrimination. “When I found myself caught up in it, I said, ‘How? I just left this mess. I just left no laws. And no regard. And then I come here and get cheated wide open.’” Ross experiences leaving one state and condition, to move and get into another one, because inequality for his kind was everywhere, no matter what state or community he moved to. While educating us with much background information about what experiences Clyde and his family has been through, regarding discrimination, inequality, and racism, “The Case of Reparations” also provides the names, organizations, dates, and description of inequality that possessed the lives of black people. “(In 2011, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, responding to violence among young black males, put the blame on the family: “Too many men making too many babies they don’t want to take care of, and then we end up dealing with your children.” Nutter turned to those presumably fatherless babies: “Pull your pants up and buy a belt, because no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”)” The way the “The Case of Reparations”