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Assignment ID: FG133287466

Assignment:

What role does the title “Between the World and Me” play in Ta-nehsi coates book?

How does the quote on page 90, “So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort again so as not to give the police a reason”, relate to this question?

How does the quote on page 82, “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have and you come to be endangered. I think we would kill you before seeing you killed by the streets that America made”, relate to this question?

How does the quote on page 17, “To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the element of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease. The nakedness is not an error, nor pathology. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear”, relate to this question?

And lastly, how does the quote on pages 78-79, “The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country is criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority”, relate to this question?