How does he Praise Obama?
I mean Jesus Christ. He LITERALLY does not Praise Obama.
Coates didn't ask to be embraced by white people.
West hates anyone who ISNT him. Dyson tried warning you fools.
Did you read what the fukk Coates says about Obama besides the fact he criticized Obama for being colorblind.
Coates is an apolitical Black pessimist writer. He fits within Derrick Bell narrative that Black people will never get anywhere without White people since White people will only do things that benefit them. So any Black advancement is tied into White Supremacy as a political, economic, social and legal structure. Like the loose restructuring of the One Drop social norm when White women started having babies with Black men. Or the freeing of the slaves during the Civil War to disrupt the Confederacy.
So Ta-Nehisi Coates never criticizes Barack Obama outside of him being Booker T. Washingtonish, colorblind and optimistic. He doesn't criticize his administration or presidency directly whatsoever and when he talked to Obama pretty much asked him, "What is it like being raised by White people...". In the end, can anybody point to Ta-Nehisi Coates going after Obama and his crappy policies and holding him accountable to the Black Electorate.
Ta-Nehisi Coates treats Obama like a therapy patient than a President. Someone to observe, analyze and talk to.
And who explicitly asks to be embraced by an audience? Like nobody in the public sphere says "Please like me."