Is there a black man anywhere who can question the left without being accused of being white?
It's the opposite of the Rachel Dolezal problem. A black man, no matter what his cred, who questions the left will be accused of wanting to be white.
The tedious predictability of the memes aimed at Kanye West make it clear that even he isn't exempt. And The Atlantic got Ta-Nehisi Coates, its foremost scribe of black fragility and racial paranoia, to write up an article length version of those memes in which West turns white.
Accompanied by an illustration in which, you guessed it. West turns white.
Like everything he writes, Ta-Nehisi Coates primarily writes about himself. The incredible uniqueness of being a whiny pundit who has never been able to edit his own rants down to 10 pages. Then come the cheap shots.
The essay starts out comparing Kanye West to Michael Jackson. It ends with accusing West of wanting a "white freedom" which is apparently characterized by a lack of commitment to lefty issues. While black freedom is all about social responsibility.
Lefties invariably colonize racial and ethnic identity and make them indistinguishable from their politics. When Kanye West questioned the politics, the left decided that he's no longer black.
West isn't a Republican. He isn't Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder or Clarence Thomas. He expressed a desire for independence.
But black men aren't allowed to be independent.
If they try, there will be a magazine like The Atlantic that will give Coates 10 pages to basically call them an Oreo.
Give the man another Pulitzer.