Posted on 09/18/2015 8:12:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hard on the heels of his number-one best-selling book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates has now published a mega treatise in The Atlantic misleadingly titled “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” I say “misleading” because aside from a brief summary of the 1965 Moynihan Report and a few nods to the effects of incarceration on children and the costs of visiting relatives upstate, you won’t find much to chew on about the black family — or any families, for that matter. It’s hard to know whether Coates is being evasive or is just indifferent to the reams of writing on the topic — I suspect it’s the latter — but it doesn’t much matter. The effect is equivocation all the way down. Coates has been understandably lauded for his prose: “a stunning piece of writing,” New York Times film critic A. O. Scott tweeted about this most recent effort. Unlike so many dreary writers with his views, he nimbly avoids cant and cliché. The rich, almost sensual wall of sound he creates has already put him on the National Book Award short list, and other nominations are certain to be coming. But once you trek past the Solzhenitsyn quote, cut down the dense bramble of sometimes gripping, sometimes extraneous historical and biographical details, and push through the striking metaphors and the heart-tugging, enraging anecdotes of white cruelty, you reach a clearing where three basic points will appear — They are the following: 1. Incarcerated men have a hard time both supporting and engaging with their families while they are in prison and after they are released. 2. Prison is a demoralizing, dangerous place. 3. Mass incarceration is the latest iteration of the American oppression of black people.
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Or....maybe the cause is unparented. young black men committing crime.
***2. Prison is a...dangerous place.***
Well, it is full of dangerous people. And Christians.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Ta-Nehisi is probably one of fhe most dangerous figures of the Left. Even liberal black professor John McWhorter acknowledged how much of a cultist Coates is (or, perhaps, he was jealous that Coates can form a cult and he can’t).
Damn those racist white people for forcing black men to commit felonious crimes at an excessive rate!
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WHO promotes a piece of crap like this?
Interesting article and it came with a bonus, a new PC term for our lexicon. At least it was new to me and it is “multi-partner fertility”, the PC preferred term to supplant “baby-mama and baby-daddy” for the more delicate flowers among us.
As to Coates, I think he just needs the appropriate Nation of Islam “uniform” and he’ll be easily categorized by look and rhetoric.
When one evades reality, one can end up preaching epistemological nihilism.The libtards' resistance to psychology as a legitimate science of of human behavior and its relationship to social process explains his vigorous embrace of secular humanist relativism and postmodernist deconstruction and skepticism. It allows them to blur distinctions between arbitrary fantasy and verifiable reality by asserting that anything may work and nothing can be objectively or morally certain.
I find that repulsive.
Thats what it is!
Everybody on the left has a gender non specific LGBTXYZ Aux these days
Thirty-five years of red-lining? WTF?
Liberals embrace the faux-science of psychology with wild abandon. It’s their denial of the soul that leads them astray.
I'll bet most of the white libs championing the likes of Coates know he's full of it. But then they'd be ostracized by other libs and not able to attend all those cocktail parties and soirees held by the usual suspects.
How about putting the responsibility for the effect on their families on the criminals themselves?
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