Did any of Coates’s experiences remind you of experiences you have had in your life or that you have witnessed? Did you personally relate to the author’s experiences?

there are 2 separate readings and questions that need to be answered each should be around 140 ish words the first one is:
1. Did any of Coates’s experiences remind you of experiences you have had in your life or that you have witnessed? Did you personally relate to the author’s experiences?
If you have not experienced what the author wrote about in his memoir, how may you still authentically respond as a reader to his text? Can you enter into an empathetic understanding of the author’s perspective even if you have not personally had or witnessed the same kinds of experiences? What do you feel as a reader you will gain or have gained from entering into an empathetic understanding of the author’s perspective, life events, and circumstances?
for this question you have to read Ta-nehisi in between the world and me memoir

The second question is:
2. In his memoir, Coates tells his son the following: “But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed,
you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which somehow, will always be assigned to you”.
Why does Coates refer so often to the idea of the “body” in Part I of his memoir?
How does the idea of the “black body” fit into our current conversations about race and racism? Think of the Black Lives Matter movement, for instance.
How can we use the article on white privilege by Lizz Schumer to understand the kind of experiences Coates describes in his memoir?
this is the video used for this question: https://youtu.be/ODixWkkcneM

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