
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Summary
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The American Dream and Blacks
As a black man, based on your race, you live in an entirely different version of america. Whites can never truly understand what it is to be black, because they can never live it. Blacks can't even walk down the street without fear of either the public or police profiling them. Lesson three, the american dream was built on the backs of blacks and is a white dream. This happened first through slavery, where wealthy southerners depended on slaves to make their fortune. Later it came through an exclusionary and race society. Even after the civil rights movement, institutional racism continued.
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