Between the World and Me:
1. Te-Nehisi Coates summarizes the work of historians to demonstrate the lingering effects of slavery and racism on modern America. Did you find his use of history effective or persuasive?
First of all, Coates defines “slavery” as an enslaved black female that has been has been tortured and brainwashed by her oppressors; broken-down into a sense of hope for her future generation to rise above the calamity that was the forefront of her fate (Coates 70). This was effective in delivering his perspective of how blacks were considered condemned from generations of oppression imposed due to the involuntary lifestyle forced on their ancestors. Moreover, Coates reminds the reader that Blacks were slaves for 250 years meaning …show more content…
Martin Luther King, Jr. as powerful influence in his life. All of those Dreamers represented the MLKs who allowed the Whites to destroy the Black bodies that he thought of as the most precious possession to the Blacks (Coates 131). Contrarily, Malcolm had chosen to respond differently in his approach to Whites who desired to harm the Black bodies (Coates 44). His ideals were no differ than those of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Coates 30). Henceforth, Coates provides a number of examples that demonstrate his position leading to his use of history being effective as well as persuasive in respects to slavery and …show more content…
Also, Coates uses a number of Blacks that had been murdered in the name of justice being served; then, acquitted by the criminal justice system for which consist of mostly Whites and Dreamers. He decided to detail stories of Blacks who had been murdered by Officers and then, as a journalist, he actually went out to interview their families. For instance, Black victims like: Sean Bell shot down (Coates 96), Michael Brown shot down (Coates 21), Trayvon Martin shot down (Coates 105), Eric Garner who choked to death (Coates 9) and Prince Carmen Jones shot down (Coates 77), meaning they were all executed at the hands of those who, Coates reminds the reader, should have been hired to protect them; however, society made the officers their executions by way of a subconscious disregard for the safety of the Black
1. Te-Nehisi Coates summarizes the work of historians to demonstrate the lingering effects of slavery and racism on modern America. Did you find his use of history effective or persuasive?
First of all, Coates defines “slavery” as an enslaved black female that has been has been tortured and brainwashed by her oppressors; broken-down into a sense of hope for her future generation to rise above the calamity that was the forefront of her fate (Coates 70). This was effective in delivering his perspective of how blacks were considered condemned from generations of oppression imposed due to the involuntary lifestyle forced on their ancestors. Moreover, Coates reminds the reader that Blacks were slaves for 250 years meaning …show more content…
Martin Luther King, Jr. as powerful influence in his life. All of those Dreamers represented the MLKs who allowed the Whites to destroy the Black bodies that he thought of as the most precious possession to the Blacks (Coates 131). Contrarily, Malcolm had chosen to respond differently in his approach to Whites who desired to harm the Black bodies (Coates 44). His ideals were no differ than those of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Coates 30). Henceforth, Coates provides a number of examples that demonstrate his position leading to his use of history being effective as well as persuasive in respects to slavery and …show more content…
Also, Coates uses a number of Blacks that had been murdered in the name of justice being served; then, acquitted by the criminal justice system for which consist of mostly Whites and Dreamers. He decided to detail stories of Blacks who had been murdered by Officers and then, as a journalist, he actually went out to interview their families. For instance, Black victims like: Sean Bell shot down (Coates 96), Michael Brown shot down (Coates 21), Trayvon Martin shot down (Coates 105), Eric Garner who choked to death (Coates 9) and Prince Carmen Jones shot down (Coates 77), meaning they were all executed at the hands of those who, Coates reminds the reader, should have been hired to protect them; however, society made the officers their executions by way of a subconscious disregard for the safety of the Black