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Coates has incredible mastery over his prose. However, there are two big problems with it: the medium of his prose and its content. The medium, a letter to his son, doesn't work because the book is his own autobiography, so it just feels like he wrote his son, who's at an emotional low, a self-centered letter about himself. The Content of that letter shows Coates to look at race on a very simple, two-dimensional level of white vs. black. I know that this is his autobiography, but it feels like h
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