bell hooks and Kevin Powell Critique Ta-nehisi Coates + Black Masculinity, Threat or Threatened?

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I want to like bell hooks but she often just says things without substantiating her claims. This was an interesting meeting tho. Black males need more guidance and positive role models and mentorship.
 

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I want to like bell hooks but she often just says things without substantiating her claims. This was an interesting meeting tho. Black males need more guidance and positive role models and mentorship.
Why do you want to like a white agent who seeks to destroy the black american community.
Why do you excuse her lying out right by downplaying it as "says things without substantiating her claims"?
 

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Why do you want to like a white agent who seeks to destroy the black american community.
Why do you excuse her lying out right by downplaying it as "says things without substantiating her claims"?

I’ve read her work. She often says things without really sourcing or explaining why she came to certain conclusions. At least in my mind :yeshrug: Never called her a liar, just thought she’s overhyped and takes too many liberties. :yeshrug:

I’m not white or an agent. This Coli stuff ain’t that serious breh.

Edit: Nvm, misread your comment. Sorry about that. Just woke up from a rough night lol. That’s on me Breh. Ignore the above.

I mean she says interesting things from time to time, but she has an obvious and extreme set of biases and deeply ingrained opinions which won’t sway even in the face of facts. I want to like her for something like this discussion but her books and writings turn me off so bad.

And to be fair, she is a liar. But I don’t want to use excessively incendiary language in a semi-intellectual convo. She does bother me and so do those who promote her “scholarship”.
 

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Did you read the Man-Not?
Yeah - it was a pretty great book. I don't take any issues with the work itself, especially in regard to sexual vulnerability and early mortality, Black men in the US have been turned into an underclass. The only thing I take issue with is Curry's belief that he's some kind of pariah - and that it is based on his theories, and not his relentless attempts to separate his writings from intersectionality.
 

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You know you hit a nerve when you have people who are hurt by what you post and who you dont interact with
 

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bell hooks and Coates are just two strands or white supremacy attack dogs.
Controlled opposition used to attack black americans for the benefit of their puppet masters.
I would suggest you not listen to either of them, their audience isn't black americans, its white americans.
This doesn’t make sense at all lol.

You just talk man.
 
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