A Comparison Of Between The World And Me

Living in the ghettos of West Baltimore has many rough patches, no matter what time period or era the person lives in. Both Coates and the young characters in the show, The Wire, grew up in West Baltimore where, to survive, people had to look out for themselves. There are a few instances in the memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, that are similar to some of the scenes in The Wire. These similarities will prove that Coates and some of the characters in the show faced the same struggles while growing up in the same area although the growing up took place in different time periods.

Coat’s perspective on the incident of the death of Trayvon Martin is explained in a sarcastic way, showing that Obama is avoiding the racial conflict. “Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability

Police brutality is such an important topic for Black Americans, especially during present times. The great discussion about police brutality becomes heavily accomodated in America due to the heavy terror being carried out by white police officers against unarmed, Black Americans. “The officer carries with him the power of the American state, and the weight of American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black” (Coates). In distinction to the quote, corrupt police officers take the role of “America”, and the violence brought on to African Americans symbolizes the perpetual mistreatment of us living here in America. I think Coates was strong and symbolic when he discussed police brutality.

He encourages his son to forge a different path of knowledge and enlightenment and take a different direction than the one his father took before him . Coates expresses his personal connection to knowledge and learning, emphasizing that his Black identity shaped his intellectual pursuits and experiences "I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free" (Page 45) This shows how the classroom was made to be set on one topic but the library you can learn whatever you want to learn, giving you personal freedom to find what you truly find

African Americans throughout most of their history have lived under the power of the crime-justice system according to Coates and not it’s authority. “Nisbet, distinguishes between “power” and “authority” … authority… is a matter of relationships, allegiances, and association… Power…is “external” and “based” upon force.” Although one can imply as to why he makes the argument, he does not provide any evidence or reasoning to back up his claim. One can imply from Coates saying “Power exist where allegiances have decayed or never existed at all.

Incorporating the metaphor, “...the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all.” correlates to white Americans blindsided and emphasizes the image of putting on a performance, for they are only pretending to be the dreamers amongst themselves. Coates includes the repetitive diction of fearfulness, feeling alone, and being unaware and keeping a shield up to hide true identity. Following, Coates revisits his past, utilizing the description of the ghetto culture he grew up in Chicago, comparing them to the ghettos he is still surrounded by in Philadelphia. “...the same ghettos where my mother was raised, where my father was raised.”

Many people forget that African Americans in this country have been enslaved for longer than they have been free. Coates reminds his son to not forget their important history and that they will continuously struggle for freedom over their own bodies. They must learn to live within a black body. These struggles can be seen in the racial profiling and brutality among police officers in cases such as Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and countless of others. He goes on to describe his childhood and how fear was the root of black existence.

Although he believes that this question is unanswerable, Coates’ purpose is to express his deepest concerns for his son and to help him understand his personal experiences as a black man. He achieves his purpose by incorporating rhetorical skills such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Coates has been a successful journalist and writer for several years. He previously worked for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and O

Coates knew he wasn’t in his hometown, so he wasn’t able to act violently. At this point Coates feels he’s being restricted and is experiencing the black vail. Coates also feels like he’s incapable of doing anything about the woman who was vigorously shouting at Samori. Although Samori and Coates experienced numerous encounter that has to deal with racism, they are not the only African Americans that have experienced such things. A female by name of Abigayle Reese has undergone racist remarks against her from white people.

Analyzing “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates The past is the past, but sometimes the past comes back and bites us on the butt. In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article, “The Case for Reparations”, Coates describes the wrongful acts done by white supremacists towards African-Americans. Throughout his article, Coates provides strong logos and pathos to his argument. The one issue that he fails to discuss is ethos or credibility towards his argument.

Coates Education Coates learning education of how the world functions began forming in the streets. Primarily as he enters in Baltimore public schools where the privilege of learning the truth about him and African Americans was reducing the ability to figure out the meaning of the world and himself. As he attends to Howard University, he began a new form of education. Although Coates had struggled with constraints through the school system about his education. Throughout his own journey of education, he was able to combat those obstacles and learn the truth history of African Americans through the streets, books; Malcolm X, who was a great influence for Coates education and The Mecca.

Coates states “What i told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within all of it” He uses parallelism when he utters “that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body” and is showing his son that some of the situations going on now, were going on then. He is articulating that everything is yours and you have to figure out how to live with it. “When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid.” He uses asyndetons, when he states “powerfully, adamantly, dangerously” to characterize the fate of fear in blacks when he was growing up.

Coates leaves little space to talk about slavery but instead talks about black reparations. He doesn’t really demonstrate this throughout the essay. He gives us a long list of slavery victims and their stories, but no overall

Fahad Albrahim Response 1: Review/Summary: “Whiteness as property” is an article written by Cheryl Harris, in which she addresses the subject of racial identity and property in the United States. Throughout the article, professor Harris attempts to explain how the concept of whiteness was initiated to become a form of racial identity, which evolved into a property widely protected in American law (page 1713). Harris tackles a number of facts that describe the roots of whiteness as property in American history at the expense of minorities such as Black and American natives (page 1709). Additionally, Harris describes how whiteness as property evolved to become seen as a racial privilege in which the whites gained more benefits, whether

As a young country, the United States was a land of prejudice and discrimination. Wanting to grow their country, white Americans did what they had to in order to make sure that they were always on top, and that they were always the superior race. It did not matter who got hurt along the way because everything that they did was eventually justified by their thinking that all other races were inferior to them. A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki describes the prejudice and discrimination against African Americans and Native Americans in the early history of the United States.