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@ktabke insight helps shed light onto what the true opinions of a black male living in America is feeling again.

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@ktabke honest insight into black culture. Sometimes, our sterotypes of black culture leads to these false images of young blacks. But his

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#ShakAP @ktabke I connect with Coates because I like his brutally honest depiction of America. He sugarcoats nothing and that provides a

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@ktabke a land for the people

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@ktabke promise of for the people but is constantly changing what the people actually is. This forces us to review America's doctrine of

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@ktabke His introduction of America as defying its ideas of equality but then introducing the idea of how America has actually kept its

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#ShakAP @ktabke On page 6 the second paragraph is an example of antithesis that he uses to introduce an interesting sense of contrast.

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@MakaylaHage @ktabke because many of these rappers were born poor in the "hood"

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@MakaylaHage @ktabke they hear of people fighting the establishment in the rebel music, they feel as though they themselves can fight

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@MakaylaHage @ktabke I agree with what you're saying but I think another way to look at it is how black youths feel oppressed so when

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@ktabke @tanehisicoates One of the major themes is how the unique culture of these black neighborhoods is producing a unique person everyday

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@ktabke @tanehisicoates The quote begins the thread of how the childhood influences of the racial state of America is what leads to problems

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#ShakAP @ktabke @tanehisicoates A quote I liked was "12-18... This was the abyss where... black boys were swallowed whole"