Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama's blackness, America's white supremacy, and Trump's victory

[Phrenological]

@Max_Blancke

It was my experience that many of the kids who did not do well in my school either did not show up, or if they did show up, they ignored the teacher and any assignments. After school, they hung around and got into fights.

Please tell us more about how you feel black people are generally lazy and violent, Max.

I’m dying to hear more anecdotal opinions about bootstrapping in lieu of actual discussion of systemic racism.

@enso

Yeah because if a middle class, college educated and professional black person walks into a small town in Missouri, he’ll be treated like all the other white folks in town, right? He won’t be treated differently because of his skin in 1,000 different ways (always to his detriment). Uh huh.

Duh, obviously he shouldn’t have gotten into so many fights and done better in school.

Using these wonderful anecdotes to justify treatment of all persons is terrible.