Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his Twitter amid a feud between the writer and Harvard philosopher Cornel West. It started on Sunday, when West wrote an article for The Guardian, in which he called Coates “the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle,” and accused him of “fetishizing white supremacy” while ignoring “Wall Street greed, U.S. imperial crimes or black elite indifference to poverty.” West posted about the article on Twitter and called Coates’s views about race in America “dangerously misleading.
.@tanehisicoates fetishizes white supremacy. His analysis/vision of our world is too narrow & dangerously misleading, omitting the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, & the complex dynamics of class, gender, & sexuality in black America https://t.co/FytA7mLmNV
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) December 17, 2017
Coate’s large fan base came to his defense, but others agreed with the philosopher, including white supremacist Richard Spencer. Coates tweeted “Peace, y’all. I’m out. I didn’t get in it for this” and then deactivated his account.
Richard Spencer agreed with Cornel West’s article about Ta-Nehisi Coates, and TNC had enough, said, “peace, y’all. I’m out.” Then deactivated. pic.twitter.com/bIdkozg9hs
— Zachary ?? (@zatchry) December 19, 2017
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