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I just created a feed for Chancey deVega's blog "We are respectable negroes." Unfortunately I didn't think of calling it "cdvega" or something, I called it "respectnegroes" because it was the most intelligible version of the name of the blog I could think of, and now I can't change it. Anyway, to add the feed to your livejournal, you can go to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
respectnegroes. I urge you to do it.
Chauncey deVega writes intelligently and clearly about race, class, politica, culture and economics in America. I especially need his voice now because Ta-Nehisi Coates has drunk the knee-jerk anti-communist kool-aid and has been spending his time lately conflating rural electrification and the public ownership of resources with killing fields. It's spectacularly dishonest and feels like a personal betrayal, though I ought to have known that the price for saying anything true in a high-tone national publication like The Atlantic is that you have to offer up a lie on a scale at least as large if not large than your truth. And you better mean it.
Bottom line: read Chauncey deVega.
respectnegroes. I urge you to do it.Chauncey deVega writes intelligently and clearly about race, class, politica, culture and economics in America. I especially need his voice now because Ta-Nehisi Coates has drunk the knee-jerk anti-communist kool-aid and has been spending his time lately conflating rural electrification and the public ownership of resources with killing fields. It's spectacularly dishonest and feels like a personal betrayal, though I ought to have known that the price for saying anything true in a high-tone national publication like The Atlantic is that you have to offer up a lie on a scale at least as large if not large than your truth. And you better mean it.
Bottom line: read Chauncey deVega.