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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 level of public interest. to what do you attribute that at this moment, given that you write about t...

Veiled racial attack, and they pointed to the hypocrisy of ryan's 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 ryan's culture statement and president obama's repeated inknvocations cousin pooky when talking to a black audience. coates was interested less in lambasting this president, than reminding us about the slippery assumptions that are ubiquitous. white conservatives do this pathologyizing, of course, just look at c...

Are we slowing down? things are great. it's 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? what's going on? >> it's interesting, this language of moral and emotional fatigue. on the one hand, i was so irritated by those comments of mr. sullivan's readers that could read the kind of analysis of coates, and see it as just an expression of depression. on the other hand, i don't want to lose that there is an emotional cost to the work of race, particularly for those who are on the mar...

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 it's bizarre to think otherwise. i think it's bizarre that he doesn't bother to see his argument as if it's actually true. oppression might well produce a culture of failure, it mig...

It's a politics of people saying, i might be doing well, but you're not, or my cousin or my family or there's 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 we're going to fail with each other, but that we have to have an argument that says, let's talk about gender, but even when you try, you fail. and they failed on that. they weren't able to put that together. but to say they failed isn't to say, now you're done, you'll never get it. >> and it's not to say that ...