re: Do you agree or disagree with this statement:

So just to be clear, Ta-Nehisi Coates underachieved through disinterested laziness in school by his own admission, but now blames it on someone else. In terms of his youthful indiscretions, he didn't build that; the other guy did.

So in this case he blames his youthful woes on the generic "white guy". That about sum it up??

His father was a black panther fighting against what were likely early major injustices he saw in early life. As many kids do, the son wants to emulate his dad. He wants to be a warrior too.

So in this instance Ta-Nehisi assumes the role of Don Quixote, and charges every windmill he can find. Lucky for him, in contrast to his dad, folks are actually willing to pay him for putting on the show.

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For most of American history, it has been national policy to plunder the capital accumulated by black people—social or otherwise.

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Inaccurate.

I hate use of the generic """black people""". Hate it. However, in the author's vernacular, sadly the more accurate picture is that American political, tax and welfare structures have seen to it that disproportionately little capital was ever accumulated by "black people." There was little to plunder, other than work product. Stems from a combination of disabling racism in the past to disincentivization now.