What is the Coates’ definition of the “Dream?”

The Dream might not sound that bad on the surface - it entails a comfortable suburban home, spacious lawns and driveways, BBQs and pool parties, pie and strawberry shortcake. However, it is much more insidious than it sounds. It was created by historians and fortified by Hollywood, Coates writes. It is very accessible for whites but is built on the marginalization and suffering of blacks. It requires ignorance and blindness to the realities of the racial divide. It is characterized by the plunder of black bodies and of the Earth. It is exclusionary and rooted in white supremacy. Coates concludes it is so pervasive and conceived of in such noble and moral terms that it is unlikely the Dreamers will wake up.