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Topic subjectRE: Cornel West Goes At Ta-Nehisi Coates (Swipe)
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13220808, RE: Cornel West Goes At Ta-Nehisi Coates (Swipe)
Posted by Deacon Blues, Sun Dec-17-17 12:34 PM
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>The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis
>or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall
>Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics
>of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow
>and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’
>worldview.
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>Coates rightly highlights the vicious legacy of white
>supremacy – past and present. He sees it everywhere and ever
>reminds us of its plundering effects. Unfortunately, he hardly
>keeps track of our fightback, and never connects this ugly
>legacy to the predatory capitalist practices, imperial
>policies (of war, occupation, detention, assassination) or the
>black elite’s refusal to confront poverty, patriarchy or
>transphobia.


is this true or just not his focus?