Between the world and me pages6/22/2023 ![]() Jones if she regrets Prince going to Howard, she replies, “No I regret that he is dead” (139). Tired to being a symbol, Prince chose to attend Howard rather than one of the Ivy League schools his mother urged him to attend. Coates writes of black students growing up in predominately white, privileged neighborhoods: “They were symbols and markers, never children or young adults” (139). Prince, in contrast, attended private schools his whole life. Jones became class president of her high school, went to medical school, and eventually became the only black doctor in her practice. Apparently, attending the university opened Coates eyes to the history and importance of hiss culture, do you think before he attended the university that he had the white picket fence mindset that he describes in the book -Rachel. Coates wonders when Samori first understood the “chasm” between himself and his white peers (134). According to Coates, how can people be civilized -Huy. Jones recalls being ushered to the back of the bus by her mother when she attempted to sit up front as a child. The story of a black, male, urban childhood illuminates just one strand of the black experience. Jones tells Coates about her experience growing up poor in Opelousas, Louisiana, the same place where her ancestors were enslaved. He finds her composed yet somber, living in an affluent community. Coates travels to New Jersey to visit Prince Jones’s mother, Dr. ![]()
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