Coates argument is white America is designed to injure black people and that whites should recognize the wrong they have done to black people for many years. Coates states whatever solutions for America black people tax dollars paid into the solution as well so we have a right to be treated equal. Coates said we have a two-tiered society.

The fact that some things get fixed does not really fix it because people were injured in the process. one of the injuries was the fact that Clyde Ross was cut out of buying a due to FHA based lending on if you lived in certain neighborhoods this is called Redling.

the interviewer was very intense and wanted Coates to explain many of the articles he wrote in detail.