Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between The World And Me Most of the American history serves a great deal of pride, acknowledgement, and importance to its culture. Spreading democracy and liberty all over the world yet forgetting some part of the history full of abusement, racisms, and evil. The novel, Between The World And Me, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is know for expressing black culture by writing novels, talks about some of this history. In his novel, he confesses all the fears filled in black Americans’ body in a letter that he writes to his fifteen year old son. When I first learned about the history of African Americans, I was shocked and I wanted to know even more about their culture and their backgrounds since, my culture is different from theirs. I was also disguised because American history was so cruel. One of the reasons that I took this class was also to learn more about African American culture. Ta-Nehisi Coates is also African American which helps the novel show his personal feelings and opinions
Through the years, the body has suffered a lot including and still is constantly under threat. Black men and women were beaten, lynched, shot, and now brutalized by the police. It has suffered a lot and who would understand more than the older aged black Americans. That’s why parents are harsh on their children over the past two hundred years. Coates states, “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”(Coates 103). We stumbled across lot of reading in the African American Unit, where we heard about black kids getting charged by their parents. The beatings were actually to protect them as the quote by Coates explains that. He also mentions couple of those beatings, where he let go his parents hand when they were walking outside. He almost got run over by a car, thus got beaten up by his dad so he wouldn’t do it