Between the World and Me Response
The most powerful message Tah-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me is the struggle of African Americans in the United States, and how the “Dream” or American Dream, is not realistic and available for everyone. As a young child, Coates’s saw the dream as not being available to him because his family wasn’t rich, and he didn’t live in the white suburbs. Racism, crime, poverty, and violence had already been ingrained in his young mind, and he was not able to change his perspective. With Coates’s background of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, he saw how his environment did not allow for social mobility, and how that was the only experience black children in his area knew. Coates exerts how the oppression