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Death-Penalty Activism and Troy Davis
Atlantic magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates uses Troy Davis’ case to highlight the importance of personal activism to fight against the death penality and to uphold the legacy of the civil rights movement. Barring some miracle, it appears that the state will kill Troy Davis. My feelings on the death penalty are quite clear, and remain…
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'Confidence Men' at the White House
The Atlantic Magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates tries to make sense of claims that Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men, manufactured quotes about the White House — or of the idea that high-ranking public officials would lie about giving quotes to a journalist. He opens his blog with a New York Times story about the book:…
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Howard, Morehouse Revive Football Feud
In his Atlantic magazine blog, Ta-Nehisi Coates uses his sardonic wit to warn that the bourgie black folk will likely square off during the Morehouse and Howard game today. Trigger Warning: This post involves black people speaking a high yaller dialect of Ebonics. Proceed at your own risk. As all bourgie colored people surely know,…
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Calling the Cops on Bullies in New Jersey Schools
Blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic magazine is doubtful about the success of a new law in New Jersey that allows classmates to report lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools to the police through anonymous tips. He excerpts a New York Times story in the opening, which explains the reason for the law. I…
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Affirmative Action for Colonial White People
In his blog for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses how slave society, and systemic white supremacy, were pioneered in Virginia. For my piece on tragedy and the Civil War (or rather lack thereof) I’m going back over Edmund S. Morgan’s classic American Slavery, American Freedom. The book basically demonstrates how the slave society, and systemic…
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Is the Gay Culture War Over for the GOP?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his Atlantic blog, says that the Republican electorate is definitely undergoing a sea change when Christine O’Donnell walks off Piers Morgan’s CNN show after being pressed on her position on gay marriage. Members of the Republican Party used to take pleasure espousing anti-gay bigotry. If I were an activist, I’d be absolutely…
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The Remix: Saving Black Neighborhoods
Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates expresses his discontent with the narrative on black neighborhoods and gentrification. This time he does it without satire. On a less satirical note, a lot of my discontent with our narrative of gentrification doesn’t come from a lack of sympathy for the poor and working class of black America. On the…
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Saving Black Neighborhoods
The Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates uses humor to address the backlash against the gentrification of African-American neighborhoods. … It occurs to me that we really need a world with more murders, more failing schools, more grocery stores with rotting vegetables, more bodegas with old milk, more teen-pregnancy, more homeless, more crack, more heroin, more fathers…
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Black Don't Crack
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his Atlantic magazine blog, contends that society doesn’t place as much of an emphasis on appearance as it used to. He opens with a provocative ebook excerpt from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble. “Do you know that little as grown negroes are admirable for…
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