![]() That’s not to say he doesn’t care about other issues, but he says he simply doesn’t have the expertise to give them the kind of coverage they deserve. His writing focuses on issues and policies that are directly linked to race, including his well-known case for reparations and recent essays about Obama and President Donald Trump. ![]() But there are deeper issues going on here - rooted in Coates’s and West’s approaches to racism and, in particular, West’s own views of former President Barack Obama.Ĭentral to all of this is West’s critique that Coates is a “neoliberal” who isn’t critical enough of Obama - especially on issues that are important to the left, such as Wall Street and drone strikes.Ĭoates has countered that he does not write about these other issues because they are simply not his area of expertise. This culminated on Monday night, when Coates left Twitter - a day after West published an op-ed in the Guardian that called Coates “the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle.”Īt face value, this might seem like just another feud between some famous men. ![]() ![]() A public feud between two of America’s top black intellectuals has led one of them to abandon Twitter.Ĭornel West, author of the well-known Race Matters, has been increasingly critical of Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic writer and author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power. ![]()
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