Ta-Nehisi Coates Quote
In my survey course of America, I’d seen portraits of the Irish drawn in the same ravenous, lustful, and simian way. Perhaps there had been other bodies, mocked, terrorized, and insecure. Perhaps the Irish too had once lost their bodies. Perhaps being named black had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named black was just someone’s name for being at the bottom,
Ta-Nehisi Coates
In my survey course of America, I’d seen portraits of the Irish drawn in the same ravenous, lustful, and simian way. Perhaps there had been other bodies, mocked, terrorized, and insecure. Perhaps the Irish too had once lost their bodies. Perhaps being named black had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named black was just someone’s name for being at the bottom,