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Here is an absolutely incredible video the Atlantic folks did for my new memoir. Please have a look. It's just beautiful.
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May 07, 2008
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These Are My People
This Is My Name
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
A heartbreaking work of staggering...Oh, wait...
These Are My Headlines
- Keepin It Unreal
I like to say I was prophetic. Okay, so maybe not. Still this is a decent piece on the beginnings of the end of gangsta rap. - Stanley Crouch Is A Gangsta Rapper
Some fun at the brother's expense. This was written after he slapped up Dale Peck. - Confessions of a 30-Year-Old Gamer
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think? - Rice, Rice, Baby!
Haha! This was fun. After this, I got a bunch of wing-nuts on the internets yelling "Hands off!"' Too bad she's been so terrible at her job. Ah, well. - Compa$$ionate Capitali$M
Me on Russell Simmons. fun, Fun FUN!! Seriously, I got to take a yoga class with the dude. - Just Another Quick-Witted, Egg-Roll-Joke-Making, Insult-Hurling, Chinese-American Rapper
My first feature for the NY Times Magazine. Man I agonized over this one. Still, props to Paul Tough, my awesome editor on this one. - The Irrelevant Rev. Sharpton
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black. - Wal-Mart's Urban Romance
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city. - Black and Blue
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
Great video . A reminder why I keep praying for my sons, nephews and grandsons those I've met and those I'll hear about.
There is greatness in each of you. Ta-Nehisi thank you for being a beacon of light and standing in the gap as a bridge for many who will come across because of who you are. God keep you always.
Posted by: Sharon ,Baltimore Yo Momma's & Daddies friend, Your fan | May 07, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Oh, man, I cannot wait to read this book.
You gotta start posting 'bout your upcoming readings. Is there an Events widget you can get for TypePad?
Posted by: Brendan | May 08, 2008 at 09:23 AM
Awesome.
I could write for hours on just that clip and I am already adding this memoir to my book list, but I will contain my riff to just that one section where you spoke about how your life would have been different - had you been adopted - and the conversations you find yourself in with just people on the street:
Isn't it amazing that in the abstract, we profess that "all men are created equal" while in the actual, we seek to classify and stratify people into social constructs of smart/dumb.
Perhaps it has always been that way - but does that doom us to forever following the same pattern?
Posted by: Derrick Gibson | May 09, 2008 at 08:21 AM
"...drag you across the finish line."
- dope.
Posted by: farragut_foster | May 10, 2008 at 09:59 PM