Coats says, ¨Black power births the kind of understanding that illuminates all the galaxies in their truest colors, even the dreamers lost in their great reverie...¨ Coats describes the dream as, “most gorgeous dream..perfect houses with nice lawns...Memorial Day cookouts, block associations, and driveways the dream is treehouses and the club scouts….smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake.¨ The dreamers are the whites, and the dream is like a perfect suburban life, a life like whites. Coates believes the dreamers and the dream are a setup for destruction.
The dreamers are the whites, and the dream is a life living as, and like white. Everything Coats described as the ¨Dream¨ on page 10 are found when you have or live in
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This tells blacks are trying to act like whites but are really not white. Acting white, and trying to fit into this dream is the destruction of the blacks. I know this because when Coats says ¨Deathbed¨. Also on page 152 coats tells his son Samori, ¨Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, but do not struggle for the dreamers.¨, and how the Dreamers must reap what they do. When coats talk about the dreamers, and what they do he describes them negatively. I know this because Coats repeats the word ¨Plunder¨ multiple times which means stealing or taking things aggressively. This what makes it all lead into Coats saying, ¨They must reap what they sow¨ this means if you did bad things in the past, you will get bad results in the future if you did good things in the past, you will get good results in the future even if you might not get caught. When Coats talks about the dreamers reaping he also says, ¨We would reap it right with them¨. Basically this is saying if the dreamers do something, and the blacks are trying to be like the whites then the effects and consequences will fall on the blacks also. On page 151 Coats states, “The Dream is the same habit that endangers the planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed