Obama's audience wasn't academia

This dude needs to chill. I can't stand dumb smart people. He wants everything to be a deep dive analysis. That every atom of a problem needs to be carefully laid out in words for him. It's as if it goes over his head that people don't talk about everything they're aware of. That just MAYBE they don't have these blind spots that HE alone sees, that MAYBE like everything else in life people internalize what they know then convery a message to the audience that they have.

Obama ran a country. Coates publishes essays and writes books.

If he wants field tested research maybe he should be doing more to expand the pool of black philisophical study. At this point he SHOULD be chairing a think tank.