In this article the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, informs his audience about how African Americans were taken an advantage of over our history. Clyde Ross was an African American man that Coates wrote his story about. Clyde Ross was raised on a farm with his thirteen other siblings. His parents gave Clyde a red horse when he was young and he took great care of it. The Ross family was very poor and was accused of not paying their taxes. Due to this accusation, the authorities took their land away from them, along with their livestock. The only livestock they had left was Clyde’s horse, which they took away from him later too. This was not just happening to the Ross family; many other African American families were being treated the exact same way.