Introduction
Coates reflected the lonely state of America in a letter to his young son. For Coates, the pursuit of happiness is so biased that, supposedly, white people are now almost as interested in exterminating the black and other races as their ancestors. Coates’ writing is driven by his shock following police shootings of young black, many with impunity, and driven by his instinctive concern for the well-being of his child in a country where such incidents are rife. The literature reaches a level of clarity and persuasion reminiscent of Ralph Ellison’s ‘the invisible Man’. It is persuasive in any way that is not completely persuasive. Coates may be more of a polemicist than analytical, but the perspective he brings to American life is something worth discussion, critiquing, and assessment.
Discussion
Meant to address an African-American father’s most intimate fears about his child, Coates’ show of unfiltered and queer insight deliberately spares no effort in depicting what it’s like to live as a Black America (Coates, 2015). Analyzing Coates’ reliance on personal narrative means dealing with repeated American racism, and placing this conversation in the realm of other typical African-American artists create a conducive environment where everyone can express their feelings about injustices meted on other races. “Between the World and Me” is a medium that captures the grim reality and at the same time exposes the innate bigotry of white Americans.
Despite that duality, the greatest virtue of ‘Between the World and Me’ is that it is not aimed at white people. Although this appears in the structure of the book as a letter addressed to “Son” Coates, one should not condone how this personal decision by the masses supports the use of crass and lawful style to reveal to his child his ongoing injuries to the black (Coates, 2015). This case is especially evident in Coates’ description of the unmasking that results from bigotry.
Coates relies on charged expressions to emphasize the racial brutality that occurs in various urban communities, certainly in the rest of Baltimore, and provides narrow insight into broad ideas about African-American weakness (Coates, 2015). While this case may be somber and unsettling for white consumers, Coates’ work is coupled with the excessive use of the pronoun “you and I”. Such phrasing allows Coates to demonstrate that his encounters are intelligent about local grief and hurt, thereby affirming that he is how he sees himself about African Americans like him.
With this unambiguous audience, Coates’ powerful and individualized abstract study of the history of the American race dispels the supportive, relaxed, and generally biased attitude that seems to diversify ordinary conversations about race. Rather than eschewing cruelty and an oppressive approach as the smarts of effective social neglect, Coates continues to attempt to portray that throughout the US experience, prejudice has been an appropriate and desirable consequence of strategy. While the right solution is surprising, it allows Coates to scornfully emphasize that white Americans depend on an incoherent class rush to implement socially engaging strategies to reduce the prejudice against black (Coates, 2015). Coates’ candor becomes a cutting statement about the inherent divisions that have tainted American history and underpins the reliable preservation of the nation’s prejudices.
Therefore, Coates’ justifications of racism proved shocking when the ruler, a great Christian, scion of a stubborn class, an adherent of a holy personality twice as great, was gunned down by an undercover policeman who had followed him from Sovereign George’s Quarter on his visit to life partners. The official, who was never prosecuted, dishonestly guaranteed that the ruler drove his jeep into his injured car (Coates, 2015). Coates highlights how somber displays of brutality can legitimize the killing of a laudable man and presents how state-sponsored police brutality, like lynching, remains a display of fear to satisfy a larger social need, racial oppression through safety to be sustained white America from African American-made brutality (Coates, 2015). The inescapable Coates then revealed the slumps and wounds of those around him by calling the cop a robber. By showing that those in power are always capable of killing without risking punishment, Coates projects how one type of hatred and abuse is replaced by another.
Coates testified to humanity in his area while also reminding white people of the underhanded strategies that followed their cause. Against this backdrop, this emphasis on real or imagined guilt allowed Coates to reinforce the African American belief that attacks on illicit bodies need no justification (Coates, 2015). Typically, these offenses were based on the barbarism and guilt expected of the African-American community, two qualities this assembly attributed to protecting the imagination.
Coates’ convergence between hurting the black and retaining imagination became his main tool in dealing with white consumers. This case is evident in Coates’ reflections that he had to escape into dreamland for so long to crumple his country like a blanket over his head (Coates, 2015). While the death of the Sovereign provided important evidence for the spread of racism, this illustration accurately depicts how the relentless harassment of the African-American community set the stage for racial domination. This situation is evident as Coates would look at it in a manner that the hand that drew the red line around the existence of Lord Jones draws a red line around the streets (Coates, 2015). By extending the reach of the white hand, Coates reframed history from an African-American perspective, as opposed to the dominant white social class, and allowed ‘Between the World and Me’ to connect directly to a white conspiracy to end prejudice.
Coates goes on to speak of effectively invoking white African-American privilege, saying in the midst of Between the World and Me that, arguing that dream was not offered or accessible to African Americans, they insisted on a space between the real world, longing, and vision (Coates, 2015). While it is fair to assume that the African American yearned to indulge in a dream, that claim is invalid if Americans analyze Coates’ opinion on the subject. In contrast, Coates, who maintains optimism, is perfectly reasonable as he focuses on Imagination based on reality. Emphasizing that the US is not based on chance and balance, Coates argued that the black continues to be seen as a distinctive asset of unique value, as it generally ensures racial oppression and financial affluence.
Conclusion
Therefore, Coates confirms that prejudice in the US was constantly being reassessed to follow the planned elimination of the black. Because of these advances, the possibility of racial progress depends to a large extent on whether white America chooses to face the desired consequences of its bigoted strategy with courage. Given the impossibility of deciding under what conditions the visionaries would awaken, it makes sense why Coates’ question went unanswered (Coates, 2015). If Coates had known whether African-American groups knew the solutions to the questions black artists continued to explore in their writing, American prejudice would no longer have significantly impacted African American lives at that time. Unable to provide any substantive answers, Coates follows a shrewd decision to fight his encounters to set his son up for a racially conscious wish to explore American prejudice.
Reference
Coates, T. (2015). Between the world and me. Text Publishing.