Analysis Of Ta-Nehisi Coates Between The World And Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote his book “Between the World and Me” to his son. He has been living his whole life within the hardships that follow being African American in the United States. He feels very passionately about the injustices that African Americans have faced in the past and are still dealing with in the present. He makes a very powerful quote, stating “They made us into a race. We made us into a people.”. Not only does this quote envelop the concept of race, but it also discusses the brutality and inequalities that white people treat black people with, the struggles and hardships that African Americans have to face, and how black culture holds the black population together as a people.

First of all, race does not really exist. The concept of race was invented by people so that they could compare themselves to others based off of something obvious. Race is something that can easily be seen by the

According to Coates, the most prominent reason that men created the concept of race was to humiliate members of it that were different from themselves. In this case, being different meant being black. He claims that the white population made African Americans into a race that was different from the Whites so it would be acceptable for them to beat, rape, or even kill Blacks, even if these actions were done by high ranked members of society such as the police. One great example of the mistreatment due to race that Coates talks about is the brutality where the killer released all of his bullets into a young black man. The killer goes onto trial and makes a ridiculous claim. Although the jury does not set the killer completely free, he is only fined because he unloaded his entire gun into the young man, not because he had killed him. Also, he talks about passing white families with strollers or with younger kids walking down the