Question #2: When Coates had moved to New York with his family, he had noticed that white parents treated their children differently from how he treated his son. On page 89 Coates notes this difference when he says, “That was where I saw white parents pushing double-wide strollers down gentrifying Harlem boulevards in T-shirts and jogging shorts… The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs.” Here Coates points out the fact that when white parents are raising their children, fear isn’t something that they need to take into account. I think that this terror is the main reason why he saw differences in the way he raised his son from how white parents raised their children. Going back to page 82, Coates states, “Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made.” White parents don’t have to live with this same fear, the fear that their children’s bodies could be taken at any moment. They don’t have to teach their children about certain laws that are necessary for their own protection. If anything, white parents actually communicate the opposite message to their children because, “No one told those little white children, with their tricycles, to be twice as good. I imagined their parents telling them to take twice as much” (Coates, pg. 91). Question #4: There was a passage in this section of the book that I was a little bit confused about. On page 87 Coates talks about seeing Prince Jones alive one last time in a museum. Coates says, “I walked over, gave him a pound, and felt that heat of the spectrum, the warmth of The Mecca. I wanted to tell him something. I wanted to say-Beware the plunderer. But when I opened my mouth, he just shook his head and walked away.” Was Coates recalling a dream he had after he found out about the death of Prince Jones, or is he actually talking about the last time he saw him?