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"Letter to My Son" (introduction (Part 1 (This is your country,…
"Letter to My Son"
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introduction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
I never wanted you to be twice as good as them, so much as I have always wanted you to attack every day of your brief bright life determined to struggle.
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Good wish: "I am ashamed that I made an error, knowing that our errors always cost us more."
Our triumphs can never redeem this. Perhaps our triumphs are not even the point. Perhaps struggle is all we have.
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Oppression to the black people is a govern tool, so they need to take responsibilities and save themselves.
Reality is cruel: "I am ashamed that I made an error, knowing that our errors always cost us more."
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Before I could escape, I had to survive, and this could only mean a clash with the streets.
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White people's ignorance to the black community,enlarging the difference between the two worlds.
How could they send us out into the streets of Baltimore, knowing all that they were, and then speak of nonviolence?
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This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it..
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Disappoint to the country, but have to find a way to live.
Crimes are common in black community, ruining the youth.
Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.
Distrust to the social elites, most of who are white people
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American author, journalist and comic book writer. Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Coates gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.
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Atlantic Readers, and the readers who were very interested in black community and racism
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To inform the racism to the black people in American society. He describes how the black people are unfairly treated and shows great worry about that.