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Is something inherently, residually wrong with black people. far less frequently to impoverish black folks find a public ally willing and able to insert without qualification their humanity, dignity and absolute worthiness. coates has done so unwaveringly. and watching it happen in realtime has been stunning. i am pleased to welcome to the table, ta-nesehi coates. and we invited jonathan chait, but he was not available. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> this has taken on a high ...

Veiled racial attack, and they pointed to the hypocrisy of ryans insistence on cultural persistence for policy. and as is frequently the case, coates on march 18th made a contribution to this discussion that was especially insightful. he pointed to the similarities between congressman ryans culture statement and president obamas repeated inknvocations cousin pooky when talking to a black audience. coates was interested less in lambasting this president, than reminding us about the slippery assum...

Are we slowing down? things are great. its very easy to have that perspective. you saw that at the end of the civil rights movement, all these white liberals were like, hey, guys, why are we slowing down? whats going on? >> its interesting, this language of moral and emotional fatigue. on the one hand, i was so irritated by those comments of mr. sullivans readers that could read the kind of analysis of coates, and see it as just an expression of depression. on the other hand, i dont want to lose...

Chate who responded by defending the idea that culture is, at least in part, responsible for the perpetuation of african-american poverty. he wrote, it would be bizarre to image that centuries of slavery followed by systemic terrorism, segregation, discrimination, a legacy wealth gap, and so on did not leave a cultural residue that itself became an impediment to success. coates then responded, quote, chate believes its bizarre to think otherwise. i think its bizarre that he doesnt bother to see ...

Its a politics of people saying, i might be doing well, but youre not, or my cousin or my family or theres a story here of standing in solidarity with each other. and i think a lot of feminist politics is a politics of solidarity. so how do you get a politics that can acknowledge that were going to fail with each other, but that we have to have an argument that says, lets talk about gender, but even when you try, you fail. and they failed on that. they werent able to put that together. but to sa...

Beltran, associate professor at new york university. brittany cooper, assistant professor of women and genders studies y ies at rutger univers and tanner kolbe. mr. coates, are you just depressed? >> it goes back to that water is wet thing. i feel like i talk to academics about this, and theyre like, yeah, this is the world. but theres this american need to believe everything is going to get better. that were going to triumph in the end. which is bizarre and i dont think is necessarily healthy. ...

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Well-regarded magazines. this is jonathan chase, a writer for "new york" magazine, a self-professed liberal who writes about politics and media. this is tan hassy coates, national correspondent for the atlantic. i should disclose, he once described me as americas foremost intellectual, which was not only an overstatement, but a description of the prolific coates as well. those are the interlocketters. and heres what sparked the debate. heres congressman paul ryan on march 12th. >> we have got th...

Current see," whose mission is transcending race with a culture free of government dependency. as coates was pointing out, even black liberals tend to conflate pathology. and here is the president announcing the my brothers keeper initiative in february, a program designed to remove the structural obstacles to success for young men of color. >> we need to invest in our schools and make college more affordable and government has a role to play. and yes, we feed to encourage fathers to stick aroun...

Peoples theologies. coates disagrees with jonathan chait and so do i. the blue period, an origin story. nerd alicious, good, wickedly smart people using enormous words, complex sentence structures, and thinly veiled intellectual shade to discuss consequential issues. and people were paying attention. writers at "the nation," the american prospect, "the new york times" all jumped in to tap out coates or chait and get their own licks in. even gawker covered it. call that a win for the public. but ...