Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle | Cornel West Read moreAward-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates has deleted his widely followed Twitter account after a public row with fellow intellectual Cornel West. According to West, that preoccupation clouds Coates’ perception of other factors that shape modern society. So here’s just a bit of it,” Coates wrote, pointing to times he had engaged with most of this issued that West accused him of ducking. “In your obsequious stanning for Bernie you must’ve overlooked the part where he dismissed the idea of black reparations,” Cobb wrote. West v Coates is eerily reminiscent of arguments that date back over a century.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2017 16:52 UTC