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You get a picture here of what an especially sly character this Ta-Nehisi Coates is. He spent a fair amount of time building political capital with the creatures of money (certifiably, Obama, and his adoring fans), and then, when he'd finally made it clear that the spotlight was on him, he said, "genocide is bad." And all of the creatures of money, all of the Nice Liberals With Big Egos, are like: "Omigod someone who believes in something!" When in doubt, scream and shout, run around in circles, panic.

This individual Full Slack, whom Keaton quotes, is of interest.

Ta-Nahesi Coates is one of the few Obama-era liberal darlings who really grew because he did the reading and understood that he was embedded within a much more insidious machine than he even originally thought. https://t.co/q0PjB3YDpu

— full slack (@fullslack_) August 14, 2026

Or here's an alteranative speculation: maybe Ta-Nehisi Coates knew what he was doing all along?

“Is our children learning?” Shrubya school of schooling, we have this jewel:

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kentucky-middle-school-ai

Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”

"Planetary distance are temporatory earth, equater the elenonts and regnestiom org toed dishlign."

The jokes, as they say, just write themselves. Now, there’s a teacher who should probably be pursuing a career change, soonest. Perhaps as a proofreader for Fox News…