How Empowering Is Coatess Between the World and Me

Although Randall Kennedy and Michelle Alexander depicts Coates as disempowering by criticizing him for failing to give hope and believe that racial justice cannot be achieved, I finds the overall message of the book to be empowering in a sense that Coates reveals to his son the recipes of better America through political consciousness, love, black people own power, existing equality, racial defiance, autonomy, and knowledge. Coates writes to his son about an inspirational journey to political consciousness which he sees himself with others. He admires Malcolm X powerful inspirational message that points out at black bodies which are precious and sacred. Malcolm X further says in a message that they have a right to defend any violations aimed at these bodies (34-35).

These messages are so empowering to his son and any black reader who face racial injustices even at present times that they are special in their own way and should be contended with the color of their skin and they have what it takes to defeat the racial injustices in future. This ability of mingling, the possibility of being able to be intimate with diverse people of different racial skin color and relating with them freely seems to fascinate Coates who he thought that there was some sense of equality. This was a sense of hope to his son that he can possibly relate well with people different racial skin hence this is empowering aspect. However, Coates argues that the foundation of the country is built on racism and therefore he lacks national feeling or a sense of belonging.

On September 11, 2001, as he watches the tower burn he has no feeling whatsoever. He feels cold. She was aggressive and determined which allowed her to withstand the humble origins. She was shaped by the deepest form of tragedy. She becomes a radiologist, a successful and at least respected women. This was an encouraging message full of hope to his son. Cotes Writes to his son and other black readers that all is possible to withstand racial injustice and that there is hope in future. Coates after leaving Dr. Jones home reflects on the visit and it dawned on him on the possibility of awakening dreamers and in the process raise the possibility of marking the end of racial injustice (146). He believes in his letter to his son that racial injustice will possibly end when people black people stop believing in the American dream.

The same idea struck him in his homecoming at Howard as he discerns a significant creation of black people in the unimaginable suffering (149). This was an awakening instance and hope of the end of racial injustice through black people own power and confidence. The question is unanswerable. ” (12), he says. This message, therefore, means that his son needs to have knowledge of the society he lives in and avoid myths. Coates further said, "the greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment. Coates encourages his son to follow how he has been able to be free from racial injustices through knowledge and rejection of myths hence is empowering aspect.