Coats 'Struggle In John Coates' The Mecca

Coates ends his letter in a great fashion as he sums up his lessons for his son, Samori. He focuses on the idea of struggle, just like in Coates’s past experiences, Coates want his son to survive for his family’s legacy and find his place, or what Coates considered The Mecca. He tells not to stop the problems of racism and white supremacy on his own, but rather the people who allow it. He describes the “Dream” and “Dreamers” as the blacks who change themselves to be white and allow their hardships to continue. Coates say not to “struggle” for them but hope they will understand what they doing, as it doesn’t change anything for blacks. Coates brings back the idea of “taking one’s body” as he says, “our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos…”