At one point, Coates states the he "came to see the streets and the schools as arms of the same beast." What leads him to this conclusion? What other institutions built upon "good intention" do you see as contributing to the same cycles of inequality?

Coates sees the schools and the streets as "arms of the same beast" because of their implicit connection via fear and violence. He discusses the way in which school lessons focused on nonviolent groups such as the Freedom Riders, and how they were held up as virtuous heroes. His school education focused on depictions of peaceful blacks being sprayed by fire hoses, beaten, and attacked by dogs rather than on more militant groups like the Black Panthers. To Coates, this makes no sense because the nonviolent black "heroes" that were valorized were people "whose values society actively scorned" (32). In this way, schools taught that the best way to be a black person in society was to be non-violent, despite the fact that the country "acquired . . . land through murder and tamed it under slavery . . . whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their domination" (32). Both the schools and the streets asked for docility from blacks, and there were repercussions if this demand wasn't met. As Coates states,

Fail in the streets and the crews would catch you slipping and take your body. Fail in the schools and you would be suspended and sent back to those same streets, where they would take your body. And I began to see these two arms in relation—those who failed in the schools justified their destruction in the streets. The society could say, "He should have stayed in school," and then wash its hands of him.

As your second question is a request for an opinion, what follows is my opinion: other institutions built upon "good intention" that can be seen as contributing to this same cycle of inequality are organized religion and government itself. Both institutions expect people to adhere to certain rules, to stay in line, and—if injustice presents itself—to protest against it peacefully via demonstration. If a member of the clergy commits sexual assault against a minor, the clergy is sometimes shuffled off to another parish and the crime is covered up. If people were to discover it and lash out against the clergy or the church, they would be punished by the law. If people turn to violence, even in the face of violence against them, they are often punished. However, despite what society says, even non-violent forms of civil disobedience are often met with outrage and violence. Rioting, even in the face of extreme injustice, is looked down upon. Yet when a black man kneels during the national anthem, or peacefully addresses a politician at a musical, or wears a shirt that says "I can't breathe" or "Hands up, don't shoot," they are still often met with anger and violence. Their behavior is seen as anti-establishment, even if their concerns regarding the injustices within the government are valid.