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Coates utilizes the comparison of the meanings of dream between the whites and blacks to appeal the fact

that the dream is intentionally stepped on black bodies and stole their values to achieve the compliment to
his readers, especially those who are trampling in the lies of dream. In between the world and me, Coates
distincts the meanings of the dream between the white people and blacks. For example, Coates confess:
“the process of washing the disparate tribe white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not
achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty,
labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the
destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sales of children; and various other acts
means”(Coates,8). Comparing among a sequences of contradict dictions like “wine tastings”, ““ice cream
social”, “and''chianing”, Coates barely exposes the reality of the dream. The dream that white people
believe, including “wine tasting” and “ice cream social” is based on the sufferings from the blacks.
Additionally, Coates tells Samori that the dream deny blacks’s right to secure and govern our own
bodies(Coates,8). Secure and govern own bodies” is the basic human rights. However, the dream is the
poison which covered with candies for the blacks. The dream is “treehouse and Cub Scouts”(Coates,11)
but it is a cover of dangers toward black bodies.
“wine tastings, ice cream” and “flaying”, “chaining” and stranglings”
The Dream" as portrayed by Coates, contrasts for white individuals and "dark bodies". Frequently, Coates
portrays "The Dream" of the white individuals preceding "The Dream" of the dark individuals. In the first
place, Coates states on different occasions that the white individuals simply believe that they are white,
because of the procedure through which blacks were abused by whites. All through the book, Coates
utilizes juxtaposition of "The Dream" of whites versus "The Dream" of blacks to build up the subject of
whites' control and blacks' absence of command over their bodies and their lives. Coates contends that,
"the way toward washing the divergent clans white… was not accomplished through wine samplings and
frozen yogurt socials, yet rather through the plundering of life, freedom, work, and land; through the
excoriating of backs; the anchoring of appendages… the assault of moms; the clearance of children"(8).
"The Dream" that the white individuals currently live incorporates "wine samplings and frozen yogurt
socials" due to the "excoriating", "anchoring", "assault", and "deal" of "unique clans". The demonstrations
constrained upon the dark individuals, "deny you and me the privilege to verify and administer our very
own bodies"(8). The most essential of human rights is the capacity to control one's own body, Coates
transfers to his child that the white American Dream is the reason for their misery and absence of
command over their "very own bodies". The juxtaposition of the reason and impacts of the fluctuating
American Dreams' fuels the absence of control that Coates depicts to his child. Also, "The Dream" seems,
by all accounts, to be "wine samplings and frozen yogurt socials", when as a general rule, "The Dream"
for dark individuals is the absence of security of "our own bodies" and the hardships that they face all
together for the white individuals to encounter "the confidence in being white"(8).

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