Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me is a truly vile and racist text. So of course Obama put it on his reading list.
Coates insists on his vulnerability to spew hatred as he writes that the police officers and firefighters who died on September 11 “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
Now Coates, who whines professionally in the pages of The Atlantic, writes that the murder of police officers is inevitable. Yes, inevitable. The title is "The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence".
Coates informs us that, "Sanctimonious cries of nonviolence will not help. “Retraining” can only do so much. Until we move to the broader question of policy, we can expect to see Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays with some regularity. And the extent to which we are tolerant of the possibility of more Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays is the extent to which we are tolerant of the possibility of more Micah Xavier Johnsons."
Which, in short, means that if the police don't stop doing their job and fighting crime, they will be shot. It's presented in the Obamaesque language of social inevitability, but the message is a familiar one.
"They take 1 of ours ... let’s take 2 of theirs,”
That one came from Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a #BlackLivesMatter supporter who murdered two NYPD officers.