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What Coates means by this is that there were certain rules you had to follow. Like the school didn’t want you to be curious but rather compliance. Yo had to keep up with your school work and behave in school or else they would suspend you. Thats when the streets will get to you and try to do harm to your body. Coates explain that it was as if the school system and the streets were working together to harm your body. “Fail in the streets and the crew would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body.”
Coates is upset about how his school use to show films about the civil rights movement during black history month because he explain how they seem to make the black people in the film enjoyed all the harm and destruction done to there body. “The black people in this film seem to love the worst things in life”.Coates thought it was pointless showing him videos of black people getting beat, raped, and worst. He prefer his own study of Malcolm X in hip hop lyrics, books, speech tapes, and other materials because they were words that told you to rise above all the hate and mostly made you feel good about your self and motivated you to want to make a change. Supposed to those depressing videos that just show black people getting treated like dirt and pretty much sending the message that if black people get the urge to want to make a change their role in the world they will go through this pain again.
Coates is upset about how his school use to show films about the civil rights movement during black history month because he explain how they seem to make the black people in the film enjoyed all the harm and destruction done to there body. “The black people in this film seem to love the worst things in life”.Coates thought it was pointless showing him videos of black people getting beat, raped, and worst. He prefer his own study of Malcolm X in hip hop lyrics, books, speech tapes, and other materials because they were words that told you to rise above all the hate and mostly made you feel good about your self and motivated you to want to make a change. Supposed to those depressing videos that just show black people getting treated like dirt and pretty much sending the message that if black people get the urge to want to make a change their role in the world they will go through this pain again. Supposed to those depressing videos that just show black people getting treated like dirt and pretty much sending the message that if black people get the urge to want to make a change their role in the world they will go through this pain again.
