![]() ![]() This year saw the deaths of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Renisha McBride, and others. As such, Coates wants to hold America to this exceptional moral standard. However, America has always viewed itself as exceptional, seeing itself as a champion of democracy. This is not singular to America it is a part of human history. They achieved their whiteness through slavery, flaying, pillage, and oppression. However, race is the child of racism, he writes, and “white people” are also a new concept. He writes of America’s deification of "democracy " America has never betrayed its promise of “government by the people” but has had trouble figuring out what it means by “people.” Americans also think they understand race, believing it is a “defined, indubitable feature of the natural world” (7). ![]() The actual question was why he believed the progress of America was based on looting and violence. ![]() The host did not say that specifically, but he is used to the question. He begins with “Son,” and divides the book into three parts.Ĭoates begins by telling a story of how he was interviewed for a popular news show and asked what it meant to lose his body. The book is in the form of an extended letter to the author’s son Samori. ![]()
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