Between the World and Me
On August 9th, 2014, an 18 year old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer named Darren Wilson. Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson were walking on the street when Wilson confronted them to get out of the road. There was a confrontation in which Wilson grabbed Brown by the neck and tried to pull him into the car, and when Brown resisted, he was shot. There were 5 other shots fired, even when Brown had his hands up in surrender position. This young man had his life taken away from him because he was walking in the middle of the street. Ta-Nehisi Coates mentions the injustices in the killing of Michael Brown in his book Between The World and Me and explains that the murders will not stop unless people wake up from the dream. Dreamers are the people that think that racism is behind this country, that we are on an uphill slope to greatness and equality, when really we have not changed. They purposefully shield their eyes to the injustices that lay right before their