Coates And Baldwin's Expression Of Racial America Social Essay

Name:Eric Guo
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Course: Cowell
Date: 11/14/2019
Coates and Baldwin's expression of racial America
Coates’s case for reparation is based on the events that took place in America at an earlier age. America has seen a transformation, but in all the change, black people were looked down upon, despised, disrespected and exploited by the whites in America. He uses the story of Clyde Ross to express his point of view. He strongly condemns the actions that took place back in the '40s where the Clyde story is mostly built. In a similar agenda, Baldwin, in his book, Notes of a Native Son, talks about various written works on the way the whites treated black Americans. He, like Clayde in Coates' writing, got to be a victim of the black and white social system in Early America. Baldwin explains how his family got to suffer and how that structure brought fear and hatred, describing how his father both hated and feared the whites. This essay explains how Coates and Baldwin’s messages both overlap and diverge.
Coates presents a Clyde Ross, a black American from Mississippi who has come from the racist Jim Crow in the South. North, he is sold a home by white sellers on contract. The contract sellers seek to take advantage of the blacks because they charge them a lot of money for deposits and instalments. He observes that in most cases, the blacks fail to keep up with the pace, and they lose everything from the home to the deposits and instalments. This is a cruel way to treat people just because of their skin colour. This racism affected America, and its effects are still evident in modern America. He notes that although America agrees that what was done is so unfair, it remains reluctant to pay for the damage caused which Coates find so difficult to agree with. He argues that reparations will come in handy although he wonders why the congress has never seen any reason to come up with a committee to even see into the feasibility of a reparation procedure. In his closing words, Coates argues that the use of blacks as slaves was an instrumental input into making the American economy better and enjoyable as it is in the present time. He also notes that the whites did oppress the black Americans and still are.
On the other hand, Baldwin presents his personal story revolving around his family and the family's encounter with the racial oppression, which grew so fast into hatred for the white and fear. His father advises him to stay away from the white people who were supposed to include the white teacher who helped Baldwin study. His father was paranoid and given the racial oppression intensity at the time; he had all the reasons to be paranoid. Baldwin also notes that the white p...