When Coates uses a vivid metaphor to describe the power of whiteness in America, Thomas Chatterton Williams accuses him of denying black agency, then ties him with Spencer and the fascist icon Julius Evola. When Coates analyzes the symbolism of Barack Obama’s success to a black America that gave him 94 percent of their vote, Dan McLaughlin says Coates is one with Richard Spencer.
This the best work I have read from him.Īnd yet Eight Years in Power has been attacked by many online as agitprop with biblical pretensions that aids and abets Nazism. Interlacing memoir and essay, Coates reports on America after Barack Obama's presidency with nuance and emotional weight. Ta-Nehisi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power is a pensive, complex book.
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