New Yorkers And Washingtonians

So the first two readings for my memoir--The Beautiful Struggle--are tonight and tomorrow. The first is here and New York, the second is in D.C. Below is the info:

Wednesday May 14, 6:00
Hue-Man Books
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd. between 124th and 125th
212-665-7400

Thursday May 15, 6:30
Hosted by Vertigo Books
Reading at the Sumner School, 17th & M NW
301-779-9300

Comments

[Stephen Bess]

This is a great website/blog you have here. I received an email from Vertigo about your book signing tonight. I look forward to meeting you. Peace~

[Deborah Coleman]

Ta-Nehisi, I read your article in The Nation a deeper black and your critique of a Bound Man.

Shelby is what Malcom X called a "house worker" He attributed his acceptance into the white race because of his biracial status, and his role as an intellectual was to keep the black race in it's place. "It cann't be done." When actually it is just limited thinking, that no black person ventured out of, because Shelby and the likes of him were protecting us with his message.

I also heard a female journalist of the same era say on Larry king live she was voting for Hillary (out of fear) because America was not ready to accept a black man for president. It is this limited thiking more then the white race that has kept black americans at their station in life.

You are mistaken if you think Barrack obama has not suffered as a biracial man growing up in Hawaii(one of the most corrupt states in the union) with white grand parents who had negative stero types of black people. He has heard it all before and it no longer has any sting. He ignores it because its ridiculouse.
It a posion that sells the news, and divides the country, just
like the war.

Blacks and whites need to stop letting the media use them to make money.