Paul Street on Ta-Nehesi Coates’ “Bullshit” | Black Agenda Report

Paul Street on Ta-Nehesi Coates’ “Bullshit”

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

19 Sep 2017

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Ta-Nehesi Coates, the Black writer for the neoliberal Atlantic magazine, accuses what he calls “the left” of subordinating race to class. “Bullshit,” said historian and author Paul Street, in the title of his Counterpunch article. “Coates doesn’t seem to know a lot about ‘movement’ leftists,” most of whom see race and class as inseparable, said Street. He said Coates lives in the bourgeois world of Democratic politics.

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