Abdulmalek Nasser
Ms Furuyama
English lll
12/6/22
Racism Three centuries have passed since race was invented and the meaning of it is each race defines a group of people based on the color of their skin. But, there have been uncountable issues based on these beliefs such as one race is better than other. And this counts as something racist. And in fact racism has the greatest issue that is going all around the world, and it’s mostly towards black people. In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the myth of racism that is destroying the black culture. Coatest explores race, exceptionalism, eduction, and redlining to demonstrate the discriminatory treatment of black individuals by society. Because of this, black
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Not all areas though, only the area where black people lived. When Coates heads to the school in his childhood he would have to walk with a group of people in order to get safely to the school. It was very dangerous to go alone to school because of the gangs that were on the streets. He described “To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease.” Here he describes that there possible chances that a person might get raped or lose his soul while walk and anything was excepted to happen because the dark color on their skins. And often when he gets to school he doesn’t get educated very properly. In the book Between the World and Me he says about education “I sensed the schools were hiding something, drugging us with false morality so that we would not see, so that we did not ask: Why––for us and only us––is the other side of free will and free spirits an assault upon our bodies?” He feels the education that they are getting was designed to make them stay where they are, unlike what the white kids . They weren’t getting the education that would make them go far in this world. And coates consider school system