Quickly googling, at least native americans seem ahead in the reparation game, meaning they have gotten something actually material/tangible.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 May 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
The native americans often have a treaty basis upon which to sue the US government, while African-Americans have no way to sue for damages, even though they are just as tangible harms.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
At this point, I think white men should not be allowed to hold public office for at least 40 years (that threshold I would gladly increase).
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
jesus christ
― .b derf (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
He is not white so he would be ok to run if he can manage to get himself resurrected.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
my zombie president is a jewish carpenter
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Next netflix Making a Murderer/American Vandal parody.
― Yerac, Saturday, 5 May 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
It's posted on the Kanye West thread, but it deserves to be here as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/
The personal stuff makes me a bit queasy, but hope that he's okay.
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 May 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
leaving the atlantic
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
good for him
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 20 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/ta-nehisi-coates-race-politics-2020-elections.html
― but i'm there are fuckups (Karl Malone), Monday, 18 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
Thanks for that!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 18 March 2019 07:57 (five years ago) link
what a read
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 March 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2604/inhuman-bondage-23753
― j., Monday, 2 December 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Ouch. Has the novel gotten other negative reviews like that? Haven’t read it yet myself, or much about it.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 December 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
I've read at least one other negative review. The most depressing part of that write-up, though, is the byline. The idea that someone who writes that poorly is an editor at Simon & Schuster, with other people's manuscripts in their custody, is terrifying.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
yeah I just figured I wasn’t smart enough to understand that review
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 2 December 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/24/20879736/water-dancer-review-ta-nehisi-coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not quite there yet. He doesn’t have the kind of command over the novel as a medium that will let him meld disparate genres together; he doesn’t seem to care about his characters as people rather than as devices he can use to convey ideas; he doesn’t really understand how to keep a plot moving.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 2 December 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
it sounds like he took too long to write the book and it became muddled. he said he spent ten years writing this. no one is the same writer they were ten years ago, least of all someone who, in that time, became one of the nation's most esteemed public intellectuals
― treeship., Monday, 2 December 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
i assume he knows how to "keep a plot moving" but faltered a bit as he was trying to synthesize several different versions of the book into one narrative.
i didn't read it, just what it sounds like.
― treeship., Monday, 2 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, December 2, 2019 8:57 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm assuming this is a young dude who is like a year or two out of grad school for literature. probably will mellow a bit as he ages.
using "apophatically" and "aporia" in one paragraph tho, bravo lol.
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
He is not the worlds best comics writer either. I think it's okay to be fantastic at one style, and merely ok at others.
― Frederik B, Monday, 2 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
The worst faux pas to me is that he just quotes Cornel West on 'We Were Eight Years in Power', without it seeming that he himself has read it. That's bad work.
I've been editing novels for a few years now on a freelance basis and all the errors of structure and tone called out in the Vox review are extremely familiar to me. I just finished a manuscript the other week where entire chapters were taken up by literal classroom lectures on the author's pet issues, so it's not at all surprising to me that a political essayist (and, yes, sometime comic book writer) would think his Big Novel needed multiple "slavery is bad, mmmkay?" monologues. Or that his protagonist has a sledgehammer-to-the-forehead metaphorical superpower.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
i can't fucking believe there's an actual "he's not a great novelist, and that's ok!" in the vox piece
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
no one should be allowed to write imo
Haven't had a chance to read this yet, tbh, but I got a copy when I went to see him get interviewed about it last month. His thought process and the in-depth research he did make it sound like it could really be interesting, but at the same time I could see how it ends up muddled and disappointing.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
surprised VOX writer didn't say, "Hey, Baldwin's novels were blah too!"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
that vox review is just flat out embarrassing
i mean apart from gushing over how "beautiful" the sentences are (not really a good sign in most novels tbh), there's literally a paragraph where the reviewer suggests that the novel would be better if it were MORE LIKE AN AARON SORKIN SHOW
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
gushing over how "beautiful" the sentences are (not really a good sign in most novels tbh)
Not the greatest example, either; I was already editing that one sentence in my head, and it definitely didn't make me want to read 400 more pages.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/21135953/city-lights-join-tanehisi-coates-and-natalie-hopkinson-for-a-discussion-of-gogo-history
12 noon eastern time Facebook live chat w/ Natalie Hopkinson on his 2000 article on history of dc go-go, and he as a rap fan coming to gogo, plus more. Live on Make gogo forever page plus will be archived by DC Public Library gogo Archives
They may talk about more than go-go per the poster
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
what else is there to talk about
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
i thought it was really cool of him to show up in my parents town, where my mom taught, to support a teacher who was reprimanded for teaching "between the world and me" to a high school AP class. my mom got a chance to talk to him and called me immediately afterward like she was on cloud 9
― Heez, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 16:49 (ten months ago) link
That’s awesome!
I wish he’d write another polemic - not a novel, not a comic book, not an opera, nor a screenplay, not a poetry collection. (But I get that he wants to try other stuff, etc.)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 16:51 (ten months ago) link
“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.”Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out. pic.twitter.com/y0HrXibUJz— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) November 2, 2023
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 November 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link