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.»

From Weekly Filet #279, in January 2020.

In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself

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The Candidates: Elizabeth Warren

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The 270 people connected to the Russia probes

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A Conversation With a Former White Nationalist

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Goodbye, Pepe

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