Consult the question below to serve as vehicle to support your final Compare and Contrast Essay. Based on “ Between the World and Me” By Ta-Nehisi Coates Coates writes, “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.” How does Coates’s descriiption of parental discipline within the black community compare to your own philosophy regarding behavior, discipline, and punishment? What do you think of the practice of “violence administered in fear and love”? How is this form of discipline influenced by black parents’ perceived lack of control over their children, and inability to protect them?
