'How Do I Live Free In This Black Body'

The terrible things we see happening are a part of our world, have always been and still remain. Police killing unarmed African Americans is not something that is okay, nor is it something that can explained, nor swept under the rug. These are things that we must deal with, and the way we chose to deal with it is up to us. I do not think that African Americans, males especially actually realize that we have full control of how we act and respond to things, and we must find a way to deal with this horrific police brutality without lashing out. “How do I live free in this black body” (Coats 23)? Will we ever live free of police brutality? The answers to these questions are attained through understanding Coats quote “…[T]his is your country…this is your world…this is your body, and you must find some way to live within all of it. I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life…” This quote also relates to the African Company presents Richard III, in a few ways. Ms. Johnson who is to play Ms. Annie in the play represents fed up individual of the African American race. She is opposed to playing the character Annie because she thinks that she is weak. “I don’t want people seein’, goin’ round thinkin’ I’m the
Fear produced from so many unanswered questions. And fear demonstrated by a white male police officer. As Ta-Nehisi Coats talks about the killing of Prince Carmen Jones, how it hit him really hard and how he could not just sit back and accept it. This was all because of a fear demonstrated by the white cop who killed him. As well as the fear demonstrated by the white constable man in the play and playwright Stephen Price, as they did whatever they could to see the African Grove players go out of business. They were simply afraid that the African Grove would succeed and attract a huge