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American Dream Does Not Exist For Black People Essay

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The American Dream does not exist for Black people. Sorry to break it to you, but that happy life you imagined with freedom, opportunity, success and that white picket fence is all an mirage that tricks us into escaping reality in order to live in an oblivious state that ignores all of the calamity experienced within our community. Coates reflects this idea by writing to his son, and unfortunately, he had to bombard his son with information of history and racism taking away his son’s oblivious innocence that white children are able to bear in order to protect him from his surrounding world.
Now this does not mean it is unobtainable, of course you could work harder than everyone else to achieve this but the situations you would have to endure might intimidate you. You may lose your spirit due to the fact that “racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.” Coates’ statement represents the true position for black bodies in America through this and his example on police brutality; how we are dehumanized and treated as if we have no belonging or ownership in America. This reminds me of my younger brother who lives in a perfect world of oblivion which I …show more content…

He discovered “For so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies.” He has to establish a relationship between myth and reality to correlate with the American Dream and his place in society as an African American. However, this shows he is a product of his generation, because unless there has really been a drastic change in how we are treated, I believe there are many ways to succeed. Unlike whites, the Black community just has a moral obligation to serve other African Americans once they make

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