Between the World and Me
What does Coates mean when he says, “My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box”? Explain.
Pages 25-28
Pages 25-28
I think that this is an allusion to Martin Luther King's quote except King said justice instead of box. Coates injects his own sense of fatalism, even realism,to this quote. The moral arc of American race relations has seldom ended in justince for black Americans.