Summary Of Letter To Son By Francis Coates

In 2015, The Atlantic Magazine published a article written by racial activist, Ta-Nehisi Coates who presented, “Letter To Son, to address black men about social injustice in America, and how the opportunities differ based on race. His goal was to make an emotional appeal to black men to get them to understand that they aren’t the privileged ones, and he also wanted to make the privileged individuals feel ashamed of how they mistreat and make the society look down on the minority of black men. In the article, Coates states his experiences and emphasizes the mistreatment of blacks and he refers back to slave to derive a ample amount of anger out of blacks.
Within the text, Coates uses a repetition of words to explain that in society, black individuals are usually viewed as lower class which means they aren’t equal with the majority. In paragraph 34, Coates continuously says, “it had to , it had to be.” He also says, “it could only be.” The repetition of words explains how the world thinks and evaluates that only black individuals are doing the crimes and is making the world worst. The author sheds light on the fact that blacks are being mistreated in society. Coates uses the structural language in the article to explain that just because people are a

In the article, he states, “casual wrath and random manglings, the gnashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial.” He includes this quote in the article to give the audience an understanding of how blacks were handled during slavery. He is trying to bring out an outrage of anger out the blacks. Coates exaggeration of emotion is used to make the reader aware of the way blacks were treated nd its intended to make them outrage in anger. This quote matters because he wants to show how America makes black men appeal a certain