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 \nChris Calhoun Agency:Excerpt from\"Ka'Ba\"by Amiri Baraka,copyright CEstate ofAmiri Baraka.Reprinted by permission of the Chris Calhoun Agency.  \nJohn Hawkins &Associates,Inc.,and the Estate of Richard Wright:Excerptfrom\"Between the World and Me\"from WhiteMan Listen!by Richard Wright,copyright ◎1957 by Richard Wright.Reprinted by permission ofJohnHawkins &Associates,Inc.,and the Estate of Richard Wright.  \nSonia Sanchez:Excerpt from“Malcolm”from Shake Loose My Skin by SoniaSanchez(Boston:Beacon Press,1999),copyright ◎1999 by Sonia Sanchez.Reprinted by permission of Sonia Sanchez.  \nISBN 978-0-8129-9354-7  \neBook ISBN 978-0-679-64598-6  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper  \nrandomhousebooks.com  \nspiegelandgrau.com  \n9876  \nBook design by Caroline Cunningham  \nFor David and Kenyatta,who believed  \nSon,  \nLast Sunday the host of a popular news show asked mewhat it meant to lose my body.The host was broadcastingfrom Washington,D.C.,and I was seated in a remote stu-dio on the far west side of Manhattan.A satellite closedthe miles between us,but no machinery could close thegap between her world and the world for which I hadbeen summoned to speak.When the host asked me aboutmy body,her face faded from the screen,and was replacedby a scroll of words,written by me earlier that week.  \nThe host read these words for the audience,and whenshe finished she turned to the subject of my body,al-though she did not mention it specifically.But by now Iam accustomed to intelligent people asking about thecondition of my body without realizing the nature of theirrequest.Specifically,the host wished to know why I felt  \n# 6 TA-NEHISI COATES\n\nthat white America's progress,or rather the progress ofthose Americans who believe that they are white,was builton looting and violence.Hearing this,I felt an old andindistinct sadness well up in me.The answer to this ques-tion is the record of the believers themselves.The answeris American history.  \nThere is nothing extreme in this statement.Americansdeify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awarenessthat they have,from time to time,stood in defiance oftheir God.But democracy is a forgiving God and Amer-ica's heresiestorture,theft,enslavement—are so commonamong individuals and nations that none can declare them-selves immune.In fact,Americans,in a real sense,havenever betrayed their God.When Abraham Lincoln de-clared,in 1863,that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure\"that government of the people,by the people,for thepeople,shallnot perish from the earth,\"he was not merelybeing aspirational;at the onset of the Civil War,the UnitedStates of America had one of the highest rates of suffragein the world.The question is not whether Lincoln trulymeant“government of the people”but what our countryhas,throughout its history,taken the political term“peo-ple”to actually mean.In 1863 it did not mean your motheror your grandmother,and it did not mean you and me.Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of“governmentof the people,\"but the means by which“the people”ac-quired their names.  \nThis leads us to another equally important ideal,one  \nthat Americans implicitly accept but to which they makeno conscious claim.Ameri","cbCaipnQtIfKsMVu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipnQtIfKsMVu","pdf",3544727,36,"English","# Between the World and Me\n## Losing My Body - Question of Meaning\n## American History as the Answer\n## Democracy, “the People,” and the Terms of Belonging\n## Race, Naming, and Hierarchy\n## The Making of “New People” Through Power","[{\"question\":\"Why does the news host ask about the author’s body, and what does it lead to?\",\"answer\":\"The host asks what it means to lose my body, and the response becomes a prompt to explain why white American progress was built on looting and violence. 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