Posted on 05/11/2016 1:04:24 PM PDT by TroutStalker
The journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates said on Monday that he and his family would not move into a $2.1 million Brooklyn brownstone they recently bought because media coverage of the purchase had made them worried for their safety.
Mr. Coates and his wife used a limited-liability corporation to shield their identities during the transaction — a legal maneuver frequently used by celebrities seeking privacy — but word of the sale leaked to The New York Post, which published an article about the purchase with pictures of the house last week. Real estate and other news organizations soon followed suit.
“Within a day of seeing these articles, my wife and I knew that we could never live in Prospect-Lefferts Garden, that we could never go back home,” Mr. Coates wrote on Monday in The Atlantic, where he is a national correspondent, referring to the Brooklyn neighborhood. “If anything happened to either of us, if anything happened to our son, we’d never forgive ourselves.”
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Mr. Coates is a very successful writer and a favorite of rich white liberals who feel bad about themselves. 2.1M is chump change.
Poor baby. You want to bask in the public eye for easy money and adulation, but you don’t want the downsides. Sorry, charlie, but that’s not how life works!
LOL ! your black lives matter
Too many stairs. Where’s the elevator.
feh...
This man is reaping exactly what he has sown. All the money in the world won’t allow him to escape the natural consequences of the evil he has wrought.
Oak paneling matters. Nice house!
It’s NYC for goodness sakes. No one gives a crap who you are. Geez, what an attention whore.
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