Between the World and Me – Prewriting 3

Ryan DeLuca

Feb 21^st, 2019

ENG 123

Dr. Drown

Between the World and Me – Prewriting 3

Coates talked about how his school went on about teaching black history month. He doesn’t seem pleased with what they are showing him and his classmates about how black were mistreated. Coates gives this elaboration about what he feels about the black history month, he says his teachers “…urged us toward the example of freedom marches, freedom riders, and freedom summers, and it seemed the month could not pass without a series of films dedicated to glories of being beaten on camera.” Cotes is displeased by the way the fight for freedom is portrayed in these films he almost feels like they are glorifying the harsh beating black received during this time. Coates also talks about how the black people act in the films he says, “The black people in these films seemed to love the worst things in life—love the dogs that rent their children apart, the tear gas that clawed at their lungs, the fire hoses that tore on their clothes and tumbled them into the streets.” The way Coates says this it almost feels like he doesn’t believe what the films are showing them, I think he feels the people in the films aren’t relaying the story accurately.