Thoughts on this work of art?

>"its hard being black :("
>*rich white liberals masturbate in unison*

why are black men so cucked

>>10022777

Back when this came out, some anon literally ripped the shit out of Coates' "worldview" in two posts. I'll have to dig through warosu to find them

In short: he's a one-trick pony. He's Black Tumblr, always playing the victim. Everything is an assault on him.

>>10022777
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/hard-untruths-ta-nehisi-coates/

This is good, but there is a better bad review that I cant find.

Why are blacks only capable of writing about being black?

>>10024659

name 5 noteworthy, literary white authors of the past 200 years who didn't write about being white and/or the political context of the times they lived in and had direct experience with

>>10024734
How about all of them?

http://takimag.com/article/the_first_rule_of_white_club_steve_sailer/

Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don’t agree? Then you’re on the wrong side of history.

Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as “muhdik”. Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates’ genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don’t need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.

During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of “punching down”, employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There’s also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word’s spelling and grammar checker.

As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is “essential, like water or air”, a truism you’d have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book’s passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.

Like Ta’s 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you’re not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence.

>>10025274
So in the end it truly was virtue signaling.

>>10025247
Damn, I feel dirty reading this. It feels dangerous.

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>>10025274

Scratch that, I don't have to dig through warosu to find the takedown, this person did it for me ... although how you knew about one private piece of information in there that a lot of people don't know is very interesting ... the walls have ears, I suppose

>"This is required reading." - Toni Morrison

do we need to revoke her /lit/ card

Both this and his previous book were decent reading. He doesn't have the answers, but he has many of the questions.

>>10025274
>what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months

Ha ha, what?

>>10024734

How does one "write about being white." What would a racially conscious novel look like?

To be honest, I never really thought much about being white until people started hurling insults at us because we're not liberal enough or something like that.

of course the ones claiming racism are the biggest racists themselves.