An Analysis Of Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates Between The World And Me

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates produced “Between the World and Me”, a novel which is depicted from the views of the African American male, expressing views on culture and politics. Coates describes the feeling of living in the United States where Black Americans are degraded and taken advantage of. Significantly, he tells readers about the greatest factors of hindrance to the Black American community, greatly including the impact of white Americans and their impede to the growth of Black impartiality, as whites being the stern majority for hundreds of years. Considering the previous sentence, the most important message of the novel is America was built with the idea of black and white, so in order to move forward as a country,

Coates’s reasoning to

Coates suggests the idea that white Americans depict African Americans to be evil and aggressive. “Why were our only heroes nonviolent? I speak not of the morality of nonviolence, but of the sense that blacks are in especial need of this nonviolence” (Coates). During the Civil RIghts Movement a time of great violence, it was preached to Black protesters to be non-violent. This suggests that the only way for violent white people to take Black Americans seriously is if they do not fight back. Perhaps Coates’s idea of the “especial need” of nonviolence is to question why did only Black Americans have to be nonviolent? Why do Black citizens continuously have to compromise in order for white Americans to understand? Coates believes that Black Americans, and other minorities, are held up to a higher standard to behave around white people in order to be taken

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. It is the horrifying truth that Black Americans