“@tanehisicoates has just come out with [“We Were Eight Years in Power]. Who’s the “we”? … We were in power for eight years? My God. Maybe he and some of his friends might have been in power, but not poor working people.”
— @CornelWest to @nytimes— AFRICA IS A COUNTRY (@africasacountry) December 4, 2017
come on, g. it’s literally on the first page.
like grapes of wrath ain’t a novel about carnivorous fruit…and Moby Dick ain’t a work of erotic fiction…
and Black Reconstruction ain’t a Afrocentric home repair manual… https://t.co/5Rqwb94NeE— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 4, 2017