World And Me

it's a piece of art, a recorded audio narrative that examines aspects of black culture ranging from physical appearance to “stereotypical” behaviors. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times bestseller Between The World and Me is essentially a literary replica of the album. The book has multiple messages itself, and asserts that the mindset of black Americans have a is institutionalized by white America, returning repeatedly to the fragility of the black body and the lingering impact of America’s legacy of slavery. The album and the book are different in some regards, but both offer persistent criticisms of the white “American Dream” and the degradation of black Americans upon which the Dream is built.

Coates begins Between The World and Me by recounting

Coates refers to the black crews/gangs in the book such as “the crews, the young men who’d transmuted their fear into rage were the greatest danger; the crews walked the blocks of their neighborhood, loud and rude, because it was only through their loud rudeness they might feel any sense of security and power. They would break your jaw, stomp your face, and shoot you down to feel that power to revel in the might of their own bodies”(Coates, 22). That's only the first of it the wanting to commit harm to someone to convince yourself you have power as a black man. Coates also says “in other cities , indeed in other Baltimore's, the neighborhoods had other handles and the boys went by other names, but their mission did not change (Coates,22): prove the inviolability of their block, of their bodies through their power to crack knees, ribs and arms. In The Blacker The Berry Kendrick says “Remind me of these Compton crip gangs that live next door beefing with Pirus, only death settle the score”. Both artists are referring to local gangs in black neighborhoods to where if two or more of the opposite gang comfort each other only the breakage of their bodies will settle the score between the two for power that’s not real, because at the end of the day we face prison time if caught, we don't have the back doors to avoid the media and criticism of society to get away with an murder of a man. Coates says “she could not lean on her country for help. When it came to her son, Dr .Jones’s country did what it does best-it forgot him. The forgetting is habit, is yet another component of the Dream. They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer their suburbs. They have forgotten, because to remember would tumble them out of the beautiful dream and force them to live with us, down