The taking of land from one group of people and the enslaving of another group of people to work that land,' Coates said. 'One of the things I'm trying to reckon with in this book is the fact that we were born out of a great moral error, if we'll call it that. Louis County decided not to indict Wilson, sparking demonstrations across the country. In the book, Coates recounted the night his son stayed up late to hear what would happen to Ferguson officer Darren Wilson who shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen. Ta-Nehisi Coates in 'Between the World and Me' But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so that America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, real or imagined-with Eric Garner's anger, with Trayvon Martin's mythical words ('You are gonna die tonight'), with Sean Bell's mistake of running with the wrong crowd, with me standing too close to the small-eyed boy pulling out.'

Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson-not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. You will hang out with people whom you shouldn't. 'But you are human and you will make mistakes. In the book, 'Between the World and Me,' Coates writes a letter to his 14-year-old son and explores what it means to be black in America. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates says he's terrified by the number of unarmed black men who have died at the hands of police.

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