Why do white people like what I write?
Pankaj Mishra: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 22 February 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Hamish Hamilton, 367 pp., £16.99, October 2017,978 0 241 32523 0 Show More
by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Hamish Hamilton, 367 pp., £16.99, October 2017,
“... mood was infectious among the personnel in charge of exterminating the brutes. The Atlantic’s Robert Kaplan cheerfully reported that ‘Welcome to Injun Country’ was the refrain among American soldiers worldwide. The primal blood-lusts of the war on terror survived Obama’s renaming of it. The Seal Team that in 2011 eventually scalped Osama bin Laden ... ”