Between The World and Me Pg. 76-100

 One of the major points of this section is the author's discussion of the powerful stories of men who had been killed by the police during his life. These senseless deaths that occurred always hung around in his mind and were something that absolutely affected his state of mind. I have never really thought about just how far back that the police shootings of black people have gone. This was kind of a wake up call to me because I had only really considered a recent problem and something that I had never really considered as a problem that's been going on since before I was alive. It obviously makes sense now that I have had my eyes opened to it but I had only ever heard about shootings going back about 20 years since I have been old enough to understand these discussions. Even then they were talking about police reform and there have obviously been some major improvements in the way of police training and the tools and gear available to them. The amount of senseless deaths that have happened as a result of these shootings and this state of mind is truly horrible and I hope that we can continue to make progress to end the problem entirely without getting rid of the police.

Another thing that resonated with me in this portion of reading was when Coates talked about how him and his fellow black people felt that their bodies could be taken away from them at any moment. This really stood out to me because I find it crazy to think that I could die at any moment. Most of the time I still have that teenage haze where I still believe that I am invincible. To go through life and especially through your teenage and younger years believing that any day could be the day that your life ends and not as a result of anything but that someone took it from you. I cant say I have ever experienced anything like that and I know that there still a lot of people that feel this way even know which makes me feel awful. No one should have to experience that at this day in age but it is clear that we still have so far to go.