What are your guys' thoughts on Coates? I'm most i

>>8952875
Coates is a hack
saged

>He's a fucking MacArthur Fellow
I am still pissed. Fuck the Obama years.

Godawful. Everything he is saying was said better by Baldwin, Cruse, etc. All Coates brings to the table is the sickly metallic tang of capitalism fucking your throat. He's a sanitised, watered-down, divvied-up and parcelled-out Baldwin. A new generation of house nigger, the new and improved house nigger, who has found a way to suck whitey's dick while still feeling like he's the edgy rebel. Integrate without giving up any of the pride of rebellion, "rebel" without any of the actual difficulty or obscurity of it.

Primarily read by white college students who are the white versions of himself. Capitalism-sanitised, liberal society-approved, status quo non-upsetting slacktivists who want to dabble in the nigger problem, like a hobby, a little accessory or badge they can pin to their faggot hipster newsie cap without ever having to do anything, commit to anything, or be anybody other than a passive consumer.

The deepest pathos someone like Baldwin addresses, the impossibility of a modus vivendi with white people, the impossibility of sanitising or normalising the problem into a little "cause" you can go on CNN and jerk off over, that's what Coates embodies.

Coates is to black people and race issues what an overfed university-educated """"Marxist"""""" from the upper middle class is to leftism. Totally fucking sterile.

>>8952904
cap'd. Thanks anon.

>>8952904

Are there any contemporary black intellectuals that go beyond sterility when engaging with ideas similar to Coates?

>>8952933
you should just read Baldwin
Baldwin has no legitimate successors

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>>8952904
>he's bad but only because he doesn't want to kill whitey enough
Baldwin had an IQ of 107 and was just as shallow and safe as Coates

>>8952904
was baldwin anticapitalist? i really need to read the fire next time at some point.