Posted on 05/11/2016 1:04:24 PM PDT by TroutStalker
The journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates said on Monday that he and his family would not move into a $2.1 million Brooklyn brownstone they recently bought because media coverage of the purchase had made them worried for their safety.
Mr. Coates and his wife used a limited-liability corporation to shield their identities during the transaction — a legal maneuver frequently used by celebrities seeking privacy — but word of the sale leaked to The New York Post, which published an article about the purchase with pictures of the house last week. Real estate and other news organizations soon followed suit.
“Within a day of seeing these articles, my wife and I knew that we could never live in Prospect-Lefferts Garden, that we could never go back home,” Mr. Coates wrote on Monday in The Atlantic, where he is a national correspondent, referring to the Brooklyn neighborhood. “If anything happened to either of us, if anything happened to our son, we’d never forgive ourselves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Instead, news of the sale brought them even more attention. Some news media outlets printed his wife’s name, he said, while others “rummaged through my kid’s Instagram account.” It all became too much.
It was all fun and games when it was the Palin family or Joe the Plumber, but let it happen to a liberal and it's libel.
On Homecomings
Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 9, 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/on-homecomings/481818/
T-N C is not a celebrity, and I doubt anyone would care enough about him for his address being made public to be a problem. But yeah, it’s a bit of hypocrisy because he’s totally down with the SJW types that would use this information to “SWAT” people or otherwise harass them.
I would also point out that this man who never stops playing up the race angle, seems to have done quite nicely for himself and his family in the supposedly oh-so racist USA, despite his lack of any discernible useful skill (his writings, what I’ve seen of the, are an incoherent mess of the sort usually produced by college freshmen, although really that’s an unfair comparison for some college freshmen).
Movin’ on up!
... What is a Ta-Nehisi Coates? An aspiring rapper?
Who is this guy, and why should anyone care?
Your right and why should I care who he is.
Ed
For that price, it should come with a few thousand acres.
Staircase photo reminds me of the Law and Order scene where Mike Logan (Chris Noth) meets pedophile priest Father Joe Krolinksy...
Jus call me Tan, it’s short for TaNehisi.
I just looked this guy up and still don’t know who he is
A famous man in his own mind. I looked him on Google and still did not recognize him.
Ah, yes, another oppressed minority. What a pity he can never aspire to a decent house...
He’s famous for being the leading advocate for reparations to descendants of slaves.
Putz.
I searched him out and his defining book/article is about “ The Case for Reparations”.
I have no sympathy for his current plight. The Reparation group have no self awareness of their own racism. They define people by race; all the whites need to pay back all the blacks. My family was in Italy at the time of American slavery, being peasants, and my story is not unique. The last American slave is dead as are all the slaveholders. The institution in America died with them and American lives were lost to end the practice during the Civil War. All debts are paid.
Sylvester Magee (May 29, 18?? – October 15, 1971) was an African American who allegedly was the last living former American slave.
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (ca. 1840 – 1935), or Cudjo Lewis, is considered the last person born on African soil to have been enslaved in the United States. The African slave trade had been legally abolished in 1808, but he was brought illegally on the ship Clotilde to Mobile, Alabama, in 1860.
He can afford a two million dollar house? Makes me think his wife makes a lot of money.
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