To say that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ most recent book, The Message, has been “controversial” is, well, “banal”, although the uproar has most unfortunately been upstaged by the re-election of Donald Trump. It’s more than a bit silly to be lecturing poor Mr. Coates on his sins—though they are, I’m afraid, substantial in their own right—when the…
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The New Yorker disgraces itself with its disgusting hit piece on Ta-Nehisi Coates, accused of, you know, TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL!
Break out the black crepe and send for the undertaker, folks. The New Yorker just committed journalistic suicide with its publication of “Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Temptations of Narrative”, staff writer Parul Sehgal’s pathetically dishonest pseudo-takedown of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “shocking” (and shockingly accurate) description of Israeli apartheid directed at Palestinians contained in his new book…
CRT v. Anti-CRT: Wait, Wait! You’re BOTH Right! Occasionally.
OCTOBER 6, 2022 UPDATE: In the course of this report—somewhere in the middle—I discuss crime data from the FBI. I should have pointed out that these data are estimates rather than complete tallies. We don’t know, for example, that there were 10,440 homicides in the U.S. in 2020, although the FBI says we do. I…