![]() 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. He remarks that black people love their children with a kind of obsession, and live in a constant (and justified) state of fear that their children will be taken from them. Coates wonders when Samori first understood the “chasm” between himself and his white peers (134). How does Coates react to the death of Prince Jones How is his process of grieving different than that of his peers What does Coates mean when he writes, I. The death of Prince Jones leads Coates to better understand why his own father, Paul, beat him as a child. Jones recalls being ushered to the back of the bus by her mother when she attempted to sit up front as a child. 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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