The Trail Of Tears Summary

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Coates's argument is racial injustice creates an endangered space for the blady body. For example, on page seven, Coates discusses past American racism and relates back racial injustice:
Racism—the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them—inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men (Coates, 7).
This following remark by Coates, shows that the Trail of Tears was a tragic event in history where tons of people lost their lives due to the
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In tur, black people should have the same amount of power as police and whites do. Lastly, on page eight. Coates brings up this idea of racial injustice through America's idea of American Exceptionalism: Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But the banality of violence can never excuse America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation to ever exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization.
From Coates's argument, we get this notion that white people are the ideal race. African Americans and other races are inferior. America forgets about the voice of everyone. By neglecting the voice of everyone,, terrorism can occur and the dangers associated with it. Terrorism is often related to either disagreement in racial equality or political stance. America tends to be ignorant of other’s words against the country; therefore the United States should change their outlook and have a