Teh-Genius Coates Imagines Himself As Madame DeFarge In A TALE OF TWO CITIES
10/13/2017
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From Ezra Klein’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates in Vox:
Even imagining that world, Coates makes ample space for tragedy. When he tries to describe the events that would erase America’s wealth gap, that would see the end of white supremacy, his thoughts flicker to the French Revolution, to the executions and the terror. “It’s very easy for me to see myself being contemporary with processes that might make for an equal world, more equality, and maybe the complete abolition of race as a construct, and being horrified by the process, maybe even attacking the process. I think these things don’t tend to happen peacefully.”

For Coates, even hope can be covered in blood.

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