Ta-Nehisi Coates Between The World And Me

In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a book to his son explaining how it is to live in America being black and it serves as a warning for later in his son’s life. Shows how he lived as a black person in America by personal, intellectual and historical experiences. He starts off by writing about his early live in which he grew up in a ghetto place, however, he says that he never picked up the way they acted. He grew up in Baltimore and people that live there were expected to grow up poor and marginalized they were loud and dressed a certain way to protect themselves and tell others coming from outside that they are humans too and living theirs he learned how to survive. Further on his life, he thought that school and …show more content…
He establishes police brutality and how it’s okay in American society and gives the example of his friend. He describes the American Dream and how even though Whites do have a visible advantage they claim that they don’t. Lastly, he writes about the disadvantages there is against blacks and how sooner or later his child will experience it and he wants to prepare his child by writing about it. He accomplished his purpose of warning his child and anyone reading the book that these types of racism exist and people should awaken and start a …show more content…
He tells his son that he must work twice as hard to be as good and even though he is not responsible of another black person’s action he will still be accounted for it. “White America’ is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. . .. without it, ‘white people’ would cease to exist for a want of reasons... But some of these straight-haired people with blue eyes have been ‘black,’ and this points to the significant difference between their world and ours. We did not choose our fences. They were imposed on us. . . (Coates, 42)”. For black to have a relax live they must follow all rules without breaking it. As well as, Coates lived in a different era then his son will be meaning that maybe his son will have a different experience then he did. For example, my grandparents had a different experience when coming to the U.S then I do being born in the U.S. They had obstacles that restrained them from their dreams but came here for a better further for their children which did happen. Now I have the opportunity they never had which was to have an education and equal rights and not that much racism and discrimination is going around like before and it gives me an extra opportunity. Even though he said that he can’t help his son physically and make everything okay he is helping him by writing this book and give him a guide to