Summary Of Robert Coates 'Dream'

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The "Dream"-- "...perfect houses with nice lawns. It is memorial day cookouts, block associations, and driveways." (pg. 11) -- simple actions and ideologies based in the ignorance of those who believe they can do no wrong. Coates uses the "Dream" to depict the consequences of the unrecognized effects of passive racism, and the rationalization of white supremacist's actions through the eyes of those who bow down to the ideas pushed into their head by society's ever long traditions. He uses the "Dream" as a metaphor for the status obtained by privileged individuals, and the belief that those with privilege are entitled to have it simply by nature. "This is the foundation of the Dream--its adherents must not just believe in it but believe that