can yall take this conspiracy bullshyt elsewhere. Coates is one of the leading intellectual minds in black America and literally started the conversation on reparations. He probably agrees with you on virtually every economic based, "tangible" issue. Yet because he's defending the integrity of someone we disagree with, he's a c00n who was "propped up" by the white man so he could...wait a decade for the perfect time to defend a friend who is being criticized? Get the fukk out of here.
There's not a single ounce of intellectualism or intelligence in this topic right now, on this forum. It's a collection of emotional, delusional dudes yelling...while refusing to acknowledge you just fukking lost this argument because Snoop Dogg's ignorance bullshyt. Oprah was always going to turn on the bat signal, but it would NOT have been effective or managed to change the topic if one man didn't step up and become the target they could focus on.
There is something seriously wrong with the level of discourse and debate on this forum. Part of it is an education issue. But the bigger issue is that this forum is full of people who don't read, don't know how to actually engage in debate, and spend most of their "learning" time watching low budget youtube videos made by conspiracy peddlers, con-men, and agitators. And every time a debate comes up, these people saturate the forum with the buzzwords they've learned (c00n, bedbuck, butter biscuits, etc). This is the same type of radicalization we see from white men in the alt right, who spurn actual learning in order to obsess over youtube videos that poison their comprehension skills and turn everything into an us vs them dynamic. It's the same bullshyt.
fukk Gayle, fukk Snoop, and fukk you losers.