Ta-Nehisi Coates

Follow Ta-Nehisi on Twitter @tanehisicoates. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me.
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Critical Race Theory

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the run-up to the war with Iraq, Harry Belafonte, entertainer and potentate of the old black left, criticized Colin Powell for his role in the Bush administration war effort. Belafonte implied that Powell was a house slave, President Bush the master, and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the big house. “In the days of slavery, there […]

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