[EveningStar]

New York Times Columnist David Brooks Blasted for White Privilege Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates

[BenLurkin]

[windcliff]

He’s being raked over the coals on Twitter.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Engaging slimebags very often leads to getting slime on you.

[windsorknot]

Is there a cure for Ta-Nehisi Coates?

[needmorePaine]

It’s funny that Brooks was trying to disagree with Coates, but he still came across as a groveling, guilt-ridden worm.

[mojito]

Both Brooks and Coates are con artists.

They just play to different audiences.

Coates plays Stepin Fetchit for the Social Justice Warrior crowd.

Brooks like to act the part of Ward Cleaver (if Ward were a progressive Jew) to the mischievous children of the Slimes editorial page.

And unless you're all in on progressive nut-jobbery, their acts are trite, tedious and nonsensical.

[wideawake]

What's being ignored is that Coates' book is effectively a manifesto for Afrocentric atheism.

White leftists absolutely love it.

For all other audiences besides white leftists it is unappealing.

[tet68]

Does a white person have standing to respond? ...

If you have to ask, the answer is no.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[In what is bound to be the most quoted passage from the book, you write that you watched the smoldering towers of 9/11 with a cold heart. At the time you felt the police and firefighters who died “were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.” You obviously do not mean that literally today. . .]

Of course he means it “literally today,” David—you pampered metrosexual. Coates manifests the same blind hatred that results in black-on-white brutality every hour of the day.