From an Ex-Neoliberal: Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Keeps Talking About White Supremacy
By Michael Harriot
December 19, 2017 at 01:07PM
via The Root http://ift.tt/2kKULVg
«Neoliberals are perfectly willing to discuss how the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a byproduct of capitalism and how the Industrial Revolution was the real death knell for slavery. They will talk about patriarchy as a part of cultural anxiety. But if anyone mentions the national complicity of white America in historical racism, they, like West, will accuse you of "fetishizing" white supremacy, with the clarion call that heralds the wincing of white people who refuse to realize the permanent strain of white supremacy that is still infecting America:
"Why must you always talk about race?"»