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Between the world and me
Race is such a touchy subject these days and I loved how the author put it in words. It’s a story about what it’s like to be black in America and its written to a son so he can get his though and feeling across. Coates recalls in a letter to his son what it was like for him to grow up black in America and the lessons he learned. Coates emphasizes the difficulties of racism in America and police brutality. We can clearly see this when the author writes that one of his college friends was shot and killed by a police officer, for simply being black. There was obviously no charges pressed against the police officer, Coates is angry and furious and those feeling are transferred through this book. When I read this I …show more content…

However, when there is clearly a system that does not value the life of Blacks its easy for those individuals to just just throw your hands up & lose hope. Which leads most of these individuals to the streets and drugs. I live in a very diverse community, which is actually wonderful, because I've always been interested in other cultures. I like people who are diverse from me. We cannot put responsible one group of people, no matter who it is, for all of our problems we face. At some point we all must take responsibility for our lives. With that being said, I do believe racism is very alive and there is truth to white privilege. I just don't think you can act like a jerk or shoot someone and yell, the white people made me do it. It’s foolish because I have friends that are African and I one of them, how she felt about the term racism. She answered by saying, that she didn’t truly feel the pressure of being black when she first migrated to America. However, it didn’t take very long for her to begin feeling and seeing not really racism but prejudice from the world around her. Ta-Nehisi Coates puts all the blame on us like it’s our fault for the death of the Black people. I see this like such a shame how white individuals see themselves as superior than others. America consists of so many individuals, so many people with all different kinds of skin colors and everyone should accept each

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