Showing posts with label Ta-Nehisi Coates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ta-Nehisi Coates. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

When Toxic Religion and Toxic Politics Meet to Create a Death Cult of Historic Proportions: Where Do Christians Go From Here?

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Any political movement that is anti-women anti-poor anti-Muslim anti-LGBTQ anti-immigrant anti-refugee is anti-human and anti-Chr...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Race Matters: As White Supremacists Robocall Wisconsin, Discussion of "Hidden" GOP Racism Continues to Come Out into the Open with Trump Candidacy

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As anyone with eyes open has seen for years now in the American political context, the Republican party has long used racial resent...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Ezra Klein on How New Online Media Technologies Shift U.S. Political Conversation: Implications for "Pope Messiahs" and Centrist Catholic Media Gatekeepers

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This is what I mean when I keep saying repeatedly that new media made possible by online technology, as well as the tools of social n...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Concluding Thoughts on the Huckabee-Staver Show Involving Kim Davis: It's a Catholic Show, Too

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As this work week wraps up, and as we reach the level of full glut (and concomitant dyspepsia) with more news about Kim Davis, some w...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

A Reminder from Think Progress of What Women and Others Put Up with Online, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on How the Internet Has Opened up Cultural Conversations

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Quote for Day: "The Confederate Flag Represents an Attempt to Perpetrate a Lie About American History"

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In an interview at Slate  yesterday, Isaac Chotiner asks Ta-Nehisi Coates if it's possible to see Dylann Roof as "a victim ...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Quote for Today: "The Sort of Bland Saluting of Forgiveness with Nothing Else Attached Is Empty"

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The sort of bland saluting of forgiveness with nothing else attached is empty. — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) June 21, 2015 ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Baltimore Burns: Limits of Rhetoric of Non-Violence in Face of Systemic Violence Practiced by Powerful vs. Vulnerable

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Two takes this morning on what's happening in Baltimore that I find illuminating:
Monday, December 8, 2014

More on Institutionalized Racism in U.S. (and Michael Brown and Eric Garner): Chris Hedges, Geoffrey Stone, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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More commentary hot off the internet presses that strikes me as very important this morning:
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Ta-Nehisi Coates's Case for Reparations: Do We Really Want to Know about the Experience of African Americans (or of Women) in the U.S.?

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John Stewart cleverly suggests that we don't want to know the truth — not about the recent Isla Vista shootings and the deep roots o...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Parsing the Data about Prop 8 and Minority Voters

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Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish links today to a posting by his colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates yesterday at the Atlantic blog site ( http://ta-...