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Between The World And Me, Reservation Blues Analysis

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However, the actual school system was also a problem for Coates. When describing his dilemma between street skills and education, he says: “If the streets shackled up [his] right leg, the schools shackled up [his] left. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the school and you gave up your body later” (Coates 25). The way in which Coates describes the “shackle” and “giving up” one’s body creates a prison-like connotation for school. He emphasizes on the necessity of balancing one’s schooling with education of the streets in order to survive. In fact, Coates explains how “There was nothing sanctified about the laws of the streets…But the laws of the schools were aimed at something distant and vague” (Coates 25). As schools have to cater to the needs of all of its students, this restricted education inevitably creates a generalized and vague curriculum aimed at the middle class. In order to combat this insipidity, schools …show more content…

Even after the Civil Rights Movement, the issue regarding civil rights persists today. A reform within the police force and education systems for equality. Although most people believe that oppression is culturally ingrained, reform in the government and in society will assist in closing the gap caused by discrimination. Ta-Nehisi Coates states that “A world with equal access to safe, quality, and affordable education; with the right to health care; with strong restrictions on massive wealth accumulation; with guaranteed childcare; and with access to the full gamut of birth-control, including abortion, is a better world” (Coates The Atlantic). A world with a true democratic system without the oppression of minority races would be a world where everyone can achieve their American

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