Comparing Coates 'Book Between The World And Me'

Frederick Douglass was persistent in learning how to read. He did very small steps, one at a time and persevered and finally succeeded. Also, we can point out that because he was one among the few educated black persons from his time, that may explain why the stood out from the crowd of black folks. The struggle he went through as a kid and the lessons he learned gave him the strength to stand up against slavery and fight for justice. History proved us that doing so is risky, we think of Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. or Fred Hampton.

While passing this information, their humanity is ignored as their humanity was denied in the past. However, when the huge contributions of the African Americans during, before, and after their enslavement are acclaimed, then their humanity is un-denied, and their lives start to matter in the society. The start of initiatives introducing the learning of black history in schools allows the restoration of the humanity of African Americans. It opens up the society to the ideology that society can only learn to appreciate the African American members of the society by learning about their history. This revelation should also allow children to grow appreciating African Americans, not just from their color but from their historical path that has led them to strive to be crucial members of the society.

Thesis statement Youth form many marginalized communities in many cases face many encounters with the police men. This is mainly because they are usually associated with criminals in many instances. The conflict theory that relates to these marginalized youths in the community relates to illegal behavior as well. As a result, there are studies mainly done for the purpose of comparing the interactions with students who stay at school with those who reside in shelters.

Not to mention, that the amount of toxins that young children get exposed to in the inner city is very alarming. One serious toxin is lead, which is affecting the behavior of youths in low-income areas of cities. Lead is a real threat and has been proven to severely damaging the prefrontal lobes while children are developing. Robert Brochin a researcher at Georgetown University states that “Lead exposure during this period can lead to severe neurological and developmental problems that may manifest themselves later in the affected child ‘s life,” (Brochin, pp.3, 2008). Even health clinics put children in these settings at risk because 68 percent of Philadelphia inner-city pediatric clinics had 10 milliliters of lead (Ruboca, pp.655, 1998).

Abraham Lincoln 's views on slavery stimulated from things that he had saw growing up during his childhood. When Lincoln was younger slavery was extremely well known, in some ways it was a normal way of life. Still, Lincoln had his own personal feelings towards African Americans which in some ways remained constant and neutral for most of the time. However, his views on slavery began to change as different things in nation started to change; such as social, political, and economic issues. Lincoln initially recognized that slavery was a bad idea

The police jumped into action and treated this case with urgency. The type of injustice that this conflict displayed was distributive injustice. Distributive injustice “is concerned with the criteria that lead you to feel you received a fair outcome” (Deutsch, 2007, p. 44). I believe in most cases involving black people the news make the police out to be bad guys. The most recent cases with the killing of African American males will make you think that the police don’t care about Blacks.

In Diana Ravitch’s ‘(2010) article Why I Changed My Mind, she discussed how abiding by an educational system using accountability and choice has failed tremendously in America. In addition, Ravitch explained how the federally ordained policies are continuously contributing to the system’s decline as well. She believes the legislators are so focused on testing and teacher evaluation that they are ignoring the root of educational problems faced in the United States. With such strong emphasis on testing and test results, educators have changed their teaching strategies in an attempt to satisfy this broken structure. There is strong attention to preparing students to pass standardized tests while simultaneously denying teachers the time to focus

Certainly there is a difference between the time when posters of lynched black men were published and graves of Klu Klux Klan members were treated with admiration (Document E) and when it was seen as commonplace that, “Whereas it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law… whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion” (Document C). In the same vein, it is hard to tell exactly what freedoms were actually offered to slaves after Reconstruction. Certainly, there were more legal freedoms and protections. However, those freedoms and protections usually weren’t respected in the south. Sometimes they were contested in courts, with people arguing that certain acts were government overreach (Document F) or complaining that, “Mere discriminations on account of race” (Document G) should still be acceptable.

The history of slavery, and the segregation that once was the American way affects the views of many young children growing up. Whether it is their view of themselves or the views of others towards African Americans, the tough challenge of growing up knowing that not all people share the same viewpoint on the color of your skin changes the perception on life. This self-image affects a youths’ mindset and makes it more challenging to know that many opportunities in life may not be provided due to the color of your skin. Though children’s image of themselves is crucial during any stage of growth, the geographical challenges of a neighborhood due to poverty and high-crime really isolates growth as well. Children are often left to educate themselves while both mom and dad travel to outside cities for work, or due to the extraordinary rates at which parents are being incarcerated they are left to fight for themselves.

Police use and maintain authority in public, ignoring manners in which this is done. Stop and search has been a conventional and problematic tactic in this, can be highly emotive and if misused it can be harmful to the trust and confidence of young people in the police. What is worrying more than 1000 under-10s had been stopped and searched in less than five years period, including even toddlers.

Throughout the years, a buildup of understanding about violence developed in my brain, a general concept of violence in America, towards women and people of differing sexualities. At this point in my life, I feel unable to recall a specific moment or an exact moment of realization about evil in the world. However, more often than not I experience discrimination myself or I witness someone else suffering through it. Ta-Nehisi Coates' excerpt from Between the World and Me, emphasizes the importance of dealing with discrimination and educating others through a letter to his son, something that I feel passionately about and have dealt with my whole life.

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an article issue in June 2014. The article is about discrimination, segregation, and racism toward black Americans. Two and a half centuries ago American success was built on slavery. And in present day African American are being discriminated for the color of their skin that even now the wound that black Americans face in their daily life has never been healed or fully atoned for. In this article Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses the struggle African American went through and all the hard time they face in their daily

Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment should be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade. With that being said, I don’t believe this essay is a case for reparations. Coates never gives the breakdown of what the United States reparation would look like. He never tells us, his readers, how the system would work, or how anyone would actually make the political case for it. This argument is not about reparations for slavery, either.

“You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” For Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, this just meant imaging how someone else sees the world. John Howard Griffin, on the other hand, took a more literal approach; in order to understand the degree of prejudice the black community faces, he dyed his white skin black. He then took a plunge into the deep South — the most segregated part of the country. He didn’t change anything else about him — he kept his name, experience, dialect, history and personality — to find out the truth about the racism the other half deals with simply because of the color of their skin.

Coats’s article“Fear of a Black President” is written with an angry tone. It presents how race and color effects people in winning roles in leadership in the United States of America, as well as diminishing President Obama and his legacy. Coats talks about the death of Trayvon Martin and how important it was to show the president's role during that. I think that Coats is criticizing Obama based on Obama’s response but not as a president. Obama responded to the teenage boy by demonstrating that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin.