New feed for Chauncey deVega

[ritaxis]

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 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.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

The Kool Aid Coates has drunk the most gallons of is the knee jerk adulation of anything he says by a buncha lemmings. He is not as deep a thinkier as he thinks he is -- except in one way: crowd-sourcing his research, getting it all for free and all the credit for work he's done not. Actually, he's not a thinker at all, except about himself, which latter, granted, he does very well.

I stopped reading him a couple of years ago.

Love, C.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Well, at leat I feel justified now. I only started reading him less than a year ago, when he was saying some pretty smart and true things (I forget about what). I noticed a few weird, stupid and less-true things as time went on, but I figured nobody's on it all the time. But this series of articles about communism is so ignorant and full of old, even forgotten, slanders, I can't ignore it.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a pity about Coates. I only catch up with him occasionally, but he usually had interesting things to say about race relations and history in America.

[onyxlynx.blogspot.nl (from livejournal.com)]

Huh. I seem to have missed that whole thing. He must be back from Paris.

(I was raised to be a knee-jerk anti-communist. I developed a nuanced view, to the point where I think of knee-jerk anti-communism as a phobia. This confuses people.)

Chauncey deVega's blog has been interesting the couple of times I've fallen across it; I'll see if there's a feed on the Dreamwidth side.