The main dividing aspect of the black person in contrast to, as Coates coins them, “those who believe they are white” is their having been born into a black body. In American …show more content…
His letter cautions of all the wrongdoings that we don’t have the privilege to forget, but also implores to remember to enjoy the life that we have, for as long as we can possible have it. For the hopeless and the angry, Between the World and Me leaves us with the advice to “make your peace with the chaos” and to be a “conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.” We must be enraged by our past, remembering our heritage of slavery and alienation from humanity. We must fight to live in the present, behaving twice as good to receive only half as much, and then be expected to be satisfied that we haven’t been shot dead yet. And we must have hope for the future, praying for relief from the murderous world we are forced to