Twitter is AWESOME

And someone with a quick mind salvages it (although many hours later).

 

Ta-Nehisi Coates deletes his Twitter account after argument with Cornel West

 

My white sister in Portland is gonna miss work tomorrow with an exploded head.

 

A real man would come back under a different handle.

 

If you're not online, it's amazing how rarely you hear the words "Fuck you."

 

Don't know if you guys followed that deal much, but West basically lied repeatedly and pretended Coates was an Obama booster, and seemed totally unfamiliar with any of Coates' actual work. He just clearly felt threatened by/jealous of the new cool black intellectual.

 

Can there only be one?

 

That’s a stunning simplication of West’s critique.

West’s primary critique is that Coates is a fatalist who presents “white supremacy” as so total and overwhelming that his arguments seem designed to please and empower white liberals more than they speak to black Americans. Whether one agrees or disagrees with that critique, that, to me, is part of what it is. I read Coates and see him trading agency for fashionable, profitable despair.

“Cornel West is a jealous liar” seems a little biased to me.