Not hardly.
#2 on his list:
Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “The Mecca” for its revelatory community of black students and teachers—to the broader Meccas of New York and Paris. Coates describes his observations and the evolution of his thinking on race, from Malcolm X to his conclusion that race itself is a fabrication, elemental to the concept of American (white) exceptionalism. Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, and South Carolina are not bumps on the road of progress and harmony, but the results of a systemized, ubiquitous threat to “black bodies” in the form of slavery, police brutality, and mass incarceration. Coates is direct and, as usual, uncommonly insightful and original. There are no wasted words. This is a powerful and exceptional book.--Jon Foro
The late Lawrence Auster had cracked the code on this seven years ago, before Coates became the latest in a long line of sub-par journalists and outright fraudsters writing at elite East Coast magazines and newspapers;
Black political columnists of notably limited thinking abilities are a fixture at major mainstream newspapers such as the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, and the New York Times. The difference between these black columnists and their white colleagues is exactly the same as obtains between black and white students at top universities and graduate schools: there is no overlap between the two races. The blacks who are given sinecures as columnists are characterized by a level of intellectual ability for which any white would be automatically rejected for the same position.As evidence for my point, here’s a black columnist I hadn’t heard of before, Courtland Milloy of the Washington Post. The column below is not worth commenting on, in fact it defies analysis, but it’s worth reading for the sheer, well, stupidity of it.
And, by the way, if liberals are offended at my description of black columnists as being intellectually sub-par, the solution is very simple: stop hiring intellectually sub-par blacks as columnists. That may mean there will be fewer black columnists in the country, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. To paraphrase the saying about the difference between a wise man and a fool, wouldn’t it be wiser for blacks of modest intellectual abilities to refrain from opinion writing and be thought unintelligent, than to write op-ed columns at major newspapers and remove all doubt?