“we were 8 years in power”
i admittingy fall into the category of white person who worships ta-nehisi coates. this collection is amazing to re-read even if you followed the writing as it was published over the last administration.
the question i have is is there a legitimate retort to anything he proposes? i’m mesmerized by his writing and it has pretty fundamentally changed how i view america and the world at large.
But.. he’s really toxic for the conservative crowd. people i know with conservative leanings will not touch his writing or just dismiss it entirely. does anyone else have a similar experience when recommending his writing?
the most recent atlantic article “i’m not black i’m kanye” is pretty amazing as well.
two excerpts that stuck out.
"West, in an accessible age, when every fuck is a tweet and every defecation a status update. And perhaps, in that way, West has done something more remarkable, more amazing than Jackson, because he is a man of no mystery, overexposed, who holds the world’s attention through simply the consistent, amazing, near-peerless quality of his work"
“When Jackson sang and danced, when West samples or rhymes, they are tapping into a power formed under all the killing, all the beatings, all the rape and plunder that made America. The gift can never wholly belong to a singular artist, free of expectation and scrutiny, because the gift is no more solely theirs than the suffering that produced it.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/