In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself

New York Magazine
In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself

A sobering look back on the past ten years, by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in New York Magazine. Key sentence: «The force of a black president was such a historic and seismic event that everything just was touched by it.»


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