Questions – Dr. Eric Drown

When Coates says “The Dream… wars with the real world” I personally think that he means that this dream seems so unreal when you come to a realization of what the world really is then it all disappears, and he says war because everytime this realization comes to his mind the real world always wins, it’s just reality. “Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made for our bodies”.
The American dream is built on black bodies is a very strong but reasonable statement. Simply because in my mind that all of the suffering the african american race has went through over hundreds of years slowly pushed this white supremacy higher and higher above on this platform of “whos better”
Race is the child of racism not the father. I felt this quote on a different level, because I understood it immediately. Imagine if this world did not even place labels on people because of the tone of their skin, imagine if people were just considered people and a person was just considered a person. This “race” label slowly progressed into the problem of racism.