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The Message
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I hate this guy so much I find it hard to compose words about him, but I will just note this:
He goes to a small Southern town where his book is being banned from a high school. Of course one should never ban a book, but could the kids who were correctly ooged out by Coates� book speak honestly about it? The teacher, a Te-nehisi simp who loves playing the role of the righteous blue person in a red state, probably did not allow such things. These poor little rednecks just couldn’t get over their white fragility!
In looking at the crowd that comes to a school board meeting about his book, Coates sees people afraid of trans kids and “sons dressed as kings of Wakanda.� (So the kids were in blackface?) And he says they should be scared, because these other-ly kids are an avatar of a future where whites will no longer be able to assume a plush, happy life as a matter of course.
Okay. So he is saying he, too, is an enemy of these people, an avatar of their demise, and the only right course of action for them is to become a simpering, self-loathing creature like the teacher who loves Te-nehisi.
One realizes that Coates is no different from dummies like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DeAngelo. He has no particular message for whites other than “You must atone! Cast down your gaze! Take up less space! In general, BE less!�
He tells that when he began writing, he had to “reduce whites in my mind.�
That’s what he’s still doing.
Whites who are susceptible to shaming, to feeling they must be beaten for the sum of the world’s ills, love this stuff. It’s painful to watch Jon Stewart or Chris Hayes bleating before Coates as a higher life form.
Coates has found a scam. Though he appears to have read little but Marvel comics, he speaks in the oratorical style of the great Baldwin, places his hand on his sternum and speaks of the Middle Passage. He may even quote a Negro spiritual in context. He has no shame.
We get the prophets we deserve.
He goes to a small Southern town where his book is being banned from a high school. Of course one should never ban a book, but could the kids who were correctly ooged out by Coates� book speak honestly about it? The teacher, a Te-nehisi simp who loves playing the role of the righteous blue person in a red state, probably did not allow such things. These poor little rednecks just couldn’t get over their white fragility!
In looking at the crowd that comes to a school board meeting about his book, Coates sees people afraid of trans kids and “sons dressed as kings of Wakanda.� (So the kids were in blackface?) And he says they should be scared, because these other-ly kids are an avatar of a future where whites will no longer be able to assume a plush, happy life as a matter of course.
Okay. So he is saying he, too, is an enemy of these people, an avatar of their demise, and the only right course of action for them is to become a simpering, self-loathing creature like the teacher who loves Te-nehisi.
One realizes that Coates is no different from dummies like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DeAngelo. He has no particular message for whites other than “You must atone! Cast down your gaze! Take up less space! In general, BE less!�
He tells that when he began writing, he had to “reduce whites in my mind.�
That’s what he’s still doing.
Whites who are susceptible to shaming, to feeling they must be beaten for the sum of the world’s ills, love this stuff. It’s painful to watch Jon Stewart or Chris Hayes bleating before Coates as a higher life form.
Coates has found a scam. Though he appears to have read little but Marvel comics, he speaks in the oratorical style of the great Baldwin, places his hand on his sternum and speaks of the Middle Passage. He may even quote a Negro spiritual in context. He has no shame.
We get the prophets we deserve.
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Oct 04, 2024 07:07AM
Thank you for saying this. Coates is a total fraud. It is amazing how few people see it, and they keep fawning over him. He is also an anti-white racist.
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Ever since he wrote the racist letter to his newborn son I disliked him he bills his bank account and his whole persona on being a victim of a practice that isn’t even happening so he makes these micro racist movements in order to have a platform to bitch about. Aytuğ don’t like him at all. He acts like the proverbial victim.
