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angryrdpanda · 7 months

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"the most shocking thing about my time over there was how uncomplicated it actually is. Now, I’m not saying the details of it are not complicated. History is always complicated. Present events are always complicated. But the way this is reported in the Western media is as though one needs a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies to understand the basic morality of holding a people in a situation in which they don’t have basic rights, including the right that we treasure most, the franchise, the right to vote, and then declaring that state a democracy. It’s actually not that hard to understand. It’s actually quite familiar to those of us with a familiarity to African American history."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#Palestine #Gaza #West Bank #West Asia #oppression #imperialism #colonization #history #politics #Ta-Nehisi Coates #solidarity #Black tumblr #Black history #apartheid #Free Palestine #israeli occupation

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reverie-quotes · 10 months

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I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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nando161mando · 7 months

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Ta-Nehisi Coates describes traveling through Palestine.

#Palestine #Gaza

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avengerscompound · 1 year

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T’Challa & Tony Stark

Black Panther (2016) #6

#marvel #avengers #marveledit #comicedit #tchallaedit #tonystarkedit #ironmanedit #t'challa #tony stark #iron man #black panther (2016)#616 #ta-nehisi coates #chris sprouse #marvel comics #avengerscompoundedit

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nat-reviews-books · 2 months

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Currently Reading: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The first few pages of this were captivating, and this is one of three (and a half) books I want to finish either before or during this weekend.

#books #currently reading #between the world and me #ta-nehisi coates

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imkeepinit · 1 year

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#quotes #library #Isaac Asimov #Ta-Nehisi Coates #classroom learning

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agentxthirteen · 9 months

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Sharon-A-Day, Day 576 (7/30/23)

Captain America V9 27. On sale 2/17/21. "All Die Young:Part VIII"

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Artist: Leonard Kirk

Letterer: Joe Caramagna

Colorist: Matt Milla

Editor: Tom Brevoort

Sharon is an underrated comedian.

#sharon carter #agent 13 #steve rogers #captain america #tom brevoort #ta-nehisi coates #leonard kirk #joe caramagna #matt milla

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 11 months

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Ta-Nehisi Coates:

Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping - positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry; they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want to be left in peace; they actually are plotting world take-over. And the blacks are not actually victims of American power, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is a respectable, more sensible, bigotry, one that does not seek to name-call, preferring instead change the subject and straw man. Thus segregation wasn't necessary to keep the niggers in line; it was necessary to protect the honor of white women.

[from a 2010 article in The Atlantic]

#The Daily Don #Ta-Nehisi Coates #racism #bigotry

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reasoningdaily · 2 months

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The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography

As I've said before, the idea of reparations precedes this month's cover of The Atlantic, and the work around it—among scholars, activists, and writers—has been ongoing, even if the interest of the broader world is fickle. Following up on the autopsy of an idea, I thought I'd give some larger sense of how something like this came to be. My hope is to give people who are interested some entrée into further reading, and also to credit the antecedents to my own thinking. Perhaps most importantly, I wish to return to one of the original features of blogging—the documentation of public thinking. I would suggest that more writers, more academics, and more journalists do this, and do so honestly. It have come to believe that arguing with the self is as important as arguing with the broader world.

Okay. On y va.

Recently, a young woman told me that this generation of Americans was "the most diverse in American history." The assumption was that across the span of that history, there was some immutable group of racial categories whose numbers we could compare. I am not sure this holds up. Biracial is a new category for America, but it is not clear to me that today there are relatively more children of black and white unions than there were in the past. We certainly are more apt to acknowledge them as such, and that is a good thing. Nevertheless, the assumption of that "something new" is happening "racially," that these terms are somehow constant is one of the great, and underestimated, barriers to understanding the case for reparations.

#How Racism Invented Race in America #RACISM #race invention #white lies #Black Facts #Ta-Nehisi Coates

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whatmakesagod · 9 months

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“I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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blackinperiodfilms · 2 years

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But we must tell our stories, and not be ensnared by them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

#Ta-Nehisi Coates #The Water Dancer #quote

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jackoshadows · 7 months

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"I keep hearing this term repeated over and over again: “the right to self-defense.” What about the right to dignity? What about the right to morality? What about the right to be able to sleep at night? Because what I know is, if I was complicit — and I am complicit — in dropping bombs on children, in dropping bombs on refugee camps, no matter who’s there, it would give me trouble sleeping at night. And I worry for the souls of people who can do this and can sleep at night." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

#Ta-Nehisi Coates #Gaza #words

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reverie-quotes · 10 months

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I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me