>especially because he implies one is a result of the other- or
>is related to a notion that there is little we can do about
>white supremacy since they have no interest in changing the
>system (or something like that- basically he says human beings
>are trash so we shouldnt expect them to do better).
>i cringe at that because to me its fundamentally antithetic to
>atheism- which (imo) places human agency at the core... yes we
>can be pessimisstic that things may not get better... (shit i
>am- this year especially).. but this has little to do with
>atheism. I think it discredits us atheists.

i couldn’t agree more.

>but... the throw-away sentence that CW puts in this article to
>try and critique this, i mean... smh. does.not.make.sense
>
>"Coates tries to justify his “defiance” by an appeal to
>“black atheism, to a disbelief in dreams and moral
>appeal”. He not only has “no expectations of white people
>at all”, but for him, if freedom means anything at all it is
>“this defiance”.

i’m just surprised that West didn’t call himself a Revolutionary Black Prophet or whatever after that paragraph.