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How does Coates suggest African American men overcome the constraints…

- - - - By the year 2043, the growing wealth divide between African Americans and Whites is thought to grow. Average income of Whites = 11x income of black
      - Black Average household income of 3 = 43,000 White Average household income of 3 = 71,3000
        
        Lack of father figure present in black household has been a constant variable - due to health issues systematic oppression suggested by Utsey? Due to environmental conditions stemming from systematic oppression? Has this become an indefinite pattern? Affect of children/future generations?
  - - - "Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of the equal rights of men, as I have, in part, stated them; ours began, by affirming those rights...We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant, wiser; and all better, and happier together."
        ~ Abraham Lincoln
      - Lincoln challenges the common idea regarding American Dream to include freedom (for all), thus encouraging the thought to allow these slaves/African American men and women to be apart of the dream
        
        Although Lincoln could not foreshadow that African American men and women today would not be truly "free", therefore making the American Dream still unattainable by the race.
  - - - An individualist society makes it extremely difficult to overcome the collective idea of white supremacy.
- - - - W. E. B. Du Bois's Double Consciousness
      - Present Day Example
- - - - Can white supremacy be blamed for this? Situational. Bad conditions (redlining, poverty, lack of education, unemployment rates) = further need for survival = aggression = becomes cultural pattern/expectations
    - - "Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out"
      - "I had seen this fear all my young life, though I had not always recognized it as such...The fear was there in the extravagant boys of my neighborhood...I saw it in their customs of war. I was no older than five, sitting out on the front steps of my home on Woodbrook Avenue, watching two shirtless boys circle around each other close and buck shoulders..." (14)
        
        Destruction of one another stems from fear of destruction of self "body"?